BBB Meetup-34

The 34th meetup of BBB happened on the 25th of October and we had a fun and spirited discussion as always! Some of these books Have been discussed before but that didn’t prevent us from exploring their existence from perspectives we hadn’t before - for e.g. translated works - Is there necessarily a possibility of the source and the translator having different levels of importance? Or do they play an equal role? There was also quite a lot of chatter about Pratchett :D But no meetup is complete without one, is it!?

The following were the books discussed -

• A Gentleman in Moscow
• Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
• David Attenborough’s Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster
• Catch and Kill
• The Dictator’s handbook
• Neverwhere
• The Sympathizer
• Indistractible
• Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
• Anne of Green Gables
• The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
• Foundation and Earth
• Lightbringer Series
• A Murder in Mesopotamia
• The Fifth Season
• The Dispossessed
• Malice
• Ready Player One
• Accidental Magic
• The Missing Queen
• The Women who Forgot to Invent Facebook
• Wari: A Collection of Manipuri Short Stories
• One of Us Is Next
• Fahrenheit 451
• Mister Pip
• The Dresden Files Series
• The Liberation of sita

Other Links:

• https://homegrown.co.in/article/804354/real-stories-from-the-north-east-janice-pariat-lists-books-for-you-to-know-india-better
• Srinath Perur in conversation with Vivek Shanbhag on Ghachar Ghochar

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