Reading Club Club President 3-Minute Speech Manuscript Sample Sentence Collection Statement

We’ve collected 3-minute speeches from book-loving book club presidents who share their short but profound messages about the joy of reading and the vibrancy of their clubs!

 

Topic – Reading is the best way to be reflective

Good morning, everyone.
I’m excited to announce that our affinity group has expanded beyond online to include in-person meetings this year.
I’m so grateful that so many of you have joined us.
There are things that make me sad these days.
It’s not the passing years that make me sad, or the unchanging world.
What really saddens me is a very small thing: today, another bookstore is gone.
Not long ago, there were a few bookstores that I knew of, but now most of them have gone out of business and the only new ones are branches of a huge bookstore based in Seoul.
Used bookstores always give me an ominous feeling of impending doom.
Especially, it seems that used bookstores will soon disappear in Korea, not just here.
So, it’s hard not to think that Korea will be the only country in the world without used bookstores.
There are hundreds of used bookstores in the West and Japan in cities this size.
Now I feel sad for those children who will never know a used bookstore, who will only see TV, cell phones, or the internet for the rest of their lives, but I feel even sadder because they won’t know why I’m sad.
They don’t believe me when I tell them that reading books makes money and improves the economy.
The same goes for saying that violence is caused by not reading books.
There are songs that say violence isn’t the fault of celebrities, it’s the fault of politicians, and it’s not the fault of movies or TV shows or games, it’s the fault of the news, but at least violent kids don’t seem to watch the news.
Of course, the song’s lyrics are right that adult violence is the problem.
In this animalistic world, books have become irrelevant.
The reflective and critical thinking qualities of reading are overwhelmed by the screens of the electronic age, which eliminate not only thinking but also conscience and guilt, thus normalizing violence.
The airwaves are flooded with stereotypical history and ridiculous soap operas, and a whole nation of people are lulled into a false sense of happiness by TV, which lures them into buying things.
It’s sad to think that the TV is the eyes of the nation, the cell phone is a part of the body, and everyone thinks they are happy because of the TV, cell phone, and internet.
It’s sad that in the 21st century, in this generation of the digital revolution, books seem to be losing their value.
I hope that I and you can start to push back against this culture a little bit.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – I’m sticking with paper books

It occurred to me today that a month is like a day.
As we approach the last month of the year, I reflect on how I’ve made it through twelve.
As the last month of the year comes to an end, I reflect on how well I’ve made it through the last twelve.
A magazine once analyzed the titles of new books published this year and found that the most common words were “I” and “my.
It was a stark reflection of our increasingly individualized and fragmented society, and another interesting finding was that “we” book titles also ranked high, perhaps to overcome the challenges of individualization.
In terms of emotions, ‘love’ was the most popular word, followed closely by ‘happiness’.
A few days ago, I saw a report that 50,000 iPads were pre-sold in Korea, and I thought about what makes a cold object melt people’s hearts.
It’s probably because the various contents inside it make people enjoy it, and the convenience of storing information and retrieving it right away is also attractive enough.
We’ve become so used to our electronic devices.
If my phone is away from my body for even a moment, I go through withdrawal and become anxious and restless.
They say that there is nothing softer than human flesh, but we feel more intimate with machines than with people.
One of the issues in publishing is also e-books.
We download content to our iPhones or iPads and call it reading.
Even though I know we’re moving into a world of “looking” at books instead of reading them, I’m still not comfortable with e-books and stick to paper books.
I prefer the rustling sound of the pages at my fingertips.
Tolstoy said that if you want to change your life, find a good teacher.
Or, he said, find a good book.
Then, he said, your life will change.
If a good book, whether e-book or paper, can enrich your life, I think the digital world has its own appeal.
However, one regret is that with the development of electronic media, our lives have become quicker and easier, but less and less valuable and enriching for deep thought and thinking.
This is especially true for young people.
Reading in adolescence helps them to form the right values and to write and speak their thoughts logically, but I am worried that the loss of Korean language is progressing when I hear the silver words, slang, and abbreviations being used among teenagers.
The national language is the spirit of a country, and I am concerned that our culture and spirit are showing symptoms of exhaustion.
As a book published this year shows, even in this digital world, we want to be loved and we want to be happy.
As a singer once sang, people are more beautiful than flowers, and there is nothing that makes us happier than the warmth of human love.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – Read a lot of books

I like to underline books.
For someone who loves to collect books, I’m a bookworm.
I jot down every thought that comes to mind, sometimes turning the blank spaces black, sometimes folding the corners of the pages if I don’t have a pen to underline.
Sometimes, I’ll write in pencil, but my excitement won’t let up, so I’ll redo it with a highlighter, like in this tutorial.
If that’s not enough, I’ll draw a giant exclamation point next to it, just to make sure I don’t lose my cool.
My friends who always wrap their books nicely for fear of damaging them are horrified by my behavior.
It’s like I’m disrespecting the book.
But for me, there’s a reason I underline books I treasure.
I do it because I want to save that “aha” moment in my brain.
Only then do I feel like I’ve met the book.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that when you open a book for the first time in a long time, all the old memories come flooding back.
Sometimes I’ll reread a book in its entirety to relive old memories, only to be moved by something completely different.
That’s part of the fun of reading, because even the same book can have a different “aha!” moment each time.
When that happens, I underline it anew.
It’s inevitable that books get messy.
When I heard Wanseo Park’s call the other day, what I did was pull all of his books off my bookshelf.
Sure enough, the underlining caught my eye.
Sentences like, “The impatience to find it quickly was strangely accompanied by a sense of despair that I would never find it,” or “Once I got myself in a good position to cry, both the desire to cry and the tears dried up.” I could relate to them even if I looked at them in isolation.
It’s clear that it touched my heart even when I was reading it.
There’s also stuff like this.
‘I want to do something as impractical as sock knitting or knitting, something that doesn’t serve anyone, something that I want to throw my whole being into, and yet I want to do it… I want to be a storyteller, not too talkative for too long, not too reticent’
Next to it is a handwritten note that says, “Me too!
I can feel the ambition of a literary youth in the way he wrote it.
But it’s not me, it’s not me, it’s not me, it’s me, it’s Lani!
As I read the underlined text and the doodles I added, I feel like I’m holding my own memorial service.
It’s probably because I didn’t have a face-to-face meeting with Park Wan-seo, but I was communicating with her through her writing.
I think it’s a good word to say that reading is a habit.
That’s the very meaning of the word habit.
It’s something you do over and over again, which is another way of saying you read a lot.
How about you have your own habits when you read?
Whatever it is, how about it.
What could be more important than reading?
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – Let’s Build a Library Together

Hello everyone, it’s a new year, and I’m wondering if you’ve accomplished any of your resolutions from last year, and if you’ve made any plans for this year. For people in their 20s and 40s, saving money is at the top of the list, followed by quitting smoking, losing weight, and reading. What are your goals for this year?
Actually, my goal this year is pretty big, and I’m not sure if it’s going to happen, but you know what they say about dreams and goals: the bigger and higher the better, so my goal this year is to work with the members of my affinity group to build a small neighborhood library.
The beginning of this ambitious goal was small: I believe that books, any books, are food for the mind and a magical way to enrich reason and emotion, and I want to share this joy with as many people as possible.
With the spread of smartphones, the development of computers, and the IT industry, the number of people who read books is decreasing significantly. This is sad news for me and the members of our club, who know the joy of reading.
So I set a small goal to share the joy of reading with others by sharing the books I read with them. The joy of recommending books I’ve read to people I know. In fact, I’ve always recommended books to people I know, but the people who listen to me say that they want to read it, but then they don’t have time to go buy it, or they can’t get it, or they have a lot of excuses. So I thought, “Why don’t I share the books I’ve read with people around me and have a time to read and talk about them together?
Then one day, I started talking to people who wanted to read but couldn’t afford it, people who couldn’t get to the city library because it was too far away, and I thought, why not create a small space where people could come and borrow books and have coffee with me.
I’m so glad I did, and I wonder why I didn’t think of it sooner.
When I think about the word people, I think the truth is that we are meant to live together, and we should live together. I’ve always placed more value on owning books when I buy them, not on sharing and sharing them together. Just as joy is doubled when you share it, I think the joy of reading will be doubled, quadrupled, eightfold when you share it.
In the upcoming new year, I plan to start building the library in earnest with the members of our club, and I promise to do my best as the president of the club to create a space where we can share the joy of reading together.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – Find your questions inside the book, outside the book

Good morning, everyone.
I want to thank all of you for making our book club so active online and offline.
I thought I read a lot and thought I could write well, but then I meet you and see a whole new world.
Your erudition and breadth of knowledge makes my own complacent ignorance seem like a blind spot, and I can’t look up for a while.
Your advice to pick books that are slightly more difficult than your level, so that you don’t struggle through them and feel accomplished when you finish them, was the first advice anyone gave me.
Perhaps those around me didn’t know what to make of my prolific reading.
Reading a lot doesn’t mean knowing a lot or thinking deeply.
I was able to take good advice, implement it, and think at a deeper level than before.
Now that I’ve been helped, I’m giving advice.
The questions you’re asking in a book don’t necessarily have answers.
You have to ask questions inside the book and you have to ask questions outside the book.
If you don’t ask questions about the book, you’ll never be more than the author of the book.
Also, a parent once told me that she was worried about her child because he likes people more than books.
Perhaps people who enjoy meeting people find it difficult to read alone.
In this case, it’s a good idea to gather a group of like-minded people around you.
If this isn’t possible at first, you might consider going on a book-related field trip together or watching a movie or video adaptation of a work of literature.
Once you’ve gotten to a certain point, you can talk about your thoughts together.
We’re really excited to share our common interests with you.
May our circle be enriched by more sharing.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – Give the gift of books

Hello, everyone.
The year is coming to a close.
I wonder if you’ve accomplished the goals you set at the beginning of the month.
I’m happy to say that I did, and I’m happy to stand in front of you.
The truth is, my goals didn’t require much diligence, no effort, just a little heart.
I didn’t aim for something huge because I’m not very persistent in the first place, but I think it’s huge because it changes a person from the inside out.
My goal at the beginning of the month was to share the books I read with others.
The pleasure of recommending the books I read to my acquaintances.
It’s one of the things that makes me happy.
It’s one of those things that makes me happy and makes me wonder why I didn’t do something like this sooner.
I’m very omnivorous when it comes to reading, so it’s one of my favorite things to think about who to recommend a book to.
As a result of picking and choosing who to read, a senior I met for a long time has a bookshelf in his house where I put only my authorized books.
When I told him that I had a bookshelf dedicated to my favorite books, he broke a long-standing habit.
Ever since I was a kid, when I finished a book, I made sure to write my name on the front cover.
It’s a habit that has stuck, and my brother, a sculptor who knows how to have fun, added to my enjoyment by carving my name into a square stone.
Like a stamp of optimism, I would finish a book and then take great pleasure in stamping the front of the book with a fresh stone stamp.
That’s when I stopped writing my name on the books and stamping them.
I wanted to give the book as a gift more freely.
For the upcoming New Year, I’ll be gifting books with postcards inside.
I feel like my life will be generous with the coming and going.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – The Joy of Used Books

I took the subway twice, passing through about seventeen stations.
Then I get off at Nakseongdae Station and head for Exit 4.
After walking a few steps, you look ahead and see something that stands out among the many signs.
Dirt Bookstore. The name of the bookstore is a bit unusual.
The front of the store is stacked with old books and other things like records and videos.
The door to the bookstore is hidden amongst the piles of books that have just come in and the piles that have yet to be organized.
When I walk through the door, I see a few people holding books, reading or browsing.
I put the shopping on the back burner and start browsing.
I see books I wanted to read a long time ago but never got around to buying, and books I read in my youth but have forgotten what they meant.
There are books from publishers that are no longer around, books by authors who have passed away.
My heart begins to stir among these old books of different ages.
It’s as if the threads of my life that have been pushed so far back in time are stirring.
Books don’t just nudge you in the right direction.
The times when certain kinds of books were devoured, the times when certain books were popular, all converged in that little used bookstore and overlapped with my life.
A journalist who is now mid-career and quite influential.
Some of the books he wrote were so fierce that he couldn’t stand the lies that were buried or hidden in our society and history.
I pause to think about that sense of justice, a sense of justice so sharp that it hasn’t yet worn off. There was a time when I wrote like that, and I laugh to myself.
There are poisons in good medicine, and not everyone listens to the best medicine.
I’m glad I finally realized this at this age.
Anyway, I came back with several books for the price of one.
I opened one of them, a social science book, and it had the owner’s name and date on it.
And on the first page, there’s a handwritten note about how excited he was when he bought it.
I can’t reproduce it here, but there was a youthfulness to the writing.
I think youth is a name for conflict and anguish.
So if you’re not conflicted, if you’re not struggling, you’re not young.
The anguish of the book’s owner, whom I would never know, brings me back to my own youth.
I never imagined that those days, which I thought would be far away, would be revived so soon, and that they would have nothing to do with my old age.
When I was younger, I used to buy a novel by Goethe or Dostoyevsky and write a manifesto on the first page of the book about why I’m so moorish!
By now, all those books are probably in some used bookstore, or in the trash.
Having a stack of used books is like having a plate of food you’ve been meaning to eat, but never got around to, and now you’re finally sitting down to a hearty meal and enjoying it alone.
Some philosophy books have a lot of underlining on every page.
Some of the underlining is in line with my thinking, and some of it is like, why did they underline this?
It makes you question things like that.
It’s fun to pick someone else’s mind for a moment.
It’s not just fun to read a book and try to guess the author’s mind or thoughts, it’s also fun to feel the mind of the reader who read the book before you.
It’s the pleasure of connecting with another life.
Is this something like the chatting that young people enjoy these days?
Again, I don’t know, but when I start reading, feeling the life of a reader who has the same taste as I do, it’s like my life suddenly gets lit up.
It’s a small, deep flavor.
Thank you, everyone, for listening.

 

 

Topic – Going to the used bookstore

Hello, everyone.
Today we’re going to talk about used books.
These days, used bookstores, or used bookstores, are almost extinct and can only be found in college towns.
These days, used bookstores are literally just dust, and they seem to be doing business with the internet.
Like all kinds of second-hand stores, used bookstores are a throwback to the past, with their cheap prices, musty book smells, out-of-print rarities, and cramped aisles with tightly packed shelves.
It’s a great way to pass the time, and you can feel that rush of excitement when you stumble upon a book you’ve been wanting.
Books in a used bookstore have a past, they have a present, and they can even look to the future.
The deep discounts of online bookstores, the one-click checkout-to-shipping experience, and the rise of dinosaur-like big-box stores have made used bookstores a dinosaur, both online and offline.
But used bookstores aren’t to blame.
There’s always a chance that a room full of bargain-basement books will turn into a collection of collectibles.
We’ve all been there.
Perhaps our addictive nostalgia for used bookstores has less to do with their liberal arts value and more to do with the fact that they’re a cheap hobby, a bibliophile’s hobby, and a hobby that’s been tainted by intellectual vanity.
That is, in fact, my hobby.
But buying, putting away, and hoping that one day I’ll read it, even if it’s just for the sake of it, is the joy of collecting books.
Used bookstores are amusement parks where nostalgia and memories are bought and sold.
I encourage you to visit a used bookstore and enjoy the nostalgia of the past.
Thank you for listening.

 

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