November 25, 2018

BBB Meetup-16

Until next time! The following are the books that were discussed in the Nov 2018 meetup. - 3 body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-problem Dragon’s Egg (Cheela #1) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263466.Dragon_s_Egg Starquake (Cheela #2) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263487.Starquake Culture Series - https://www.goodreads.com/series/49118-culture Pachinko - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34051011-pachinko Deep Work - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744928-deep-work Blink - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40102.Blink No one writes back - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17591572-no-one-writes-back The Vegetarian - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489025-the-vegetarian The Childhood of Jesus - https://www.

August 26, 2018

BBB Meetup-15

BBB had our 15th meetup on Sunday, the 26th of August. This was the first meetup that also included a published author Mr.Ram Sivasankaran in our midst and he spoke to us about how he came to be on the path to becoming an author and also about his motivation for the theme of his books, “The Lion and the Stallion” and “The Peshwa”. Coffee and snacks as usual, amid sounds of the thunderstorm outside, made for an excellent meetup.

July 29, 2018

BBB Meetup-14

We had 36 people in the last meetup BBB#14 and frankly that’s a bit too much :-/ But the discussion was lively, the fries being passed around were awesome and there was hot coffee, so I’m partially happy. What would have made me happier is if everyone could have heard Everyone else when they were talking about the books they were reading and that’s frankly not possible and feasible for an attending group of this magnitude.

June 30, 2018

BBB Meetup-13

Oh yessss 🐣 Meetup #13 happened on 22 Apr 2018 and I was very pleased with the eventual turnout, one of the largest we’ve had so far. This time we didn’t have a theme and that was awesome since the discussion wasn’t polarized or monopolized and everyone got their say. And these are the kind of meetups I’m personally preferential to, where everyone gets to voice their opinion about books they’ve read coz everyone’s read Something even if it isn’t related to a pre-set theme (not discounting the advantages of the themed meetups, of course.

May 27, 2018

BBB Meetup-12

Genre Specific Dune – Frank Herbert 1984 – George Orwell H2G2 – Douglas Adams Martian – Andy Weir Artemis – Andy Weir Binti - Nnedi Okorafor Who fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor Thursday Next Series – Jasper Fforde Ready Player One – Ernest Cline Ubik – PKD Children of Time – Adrian Tchiakovsky A Scanner Darkly – PKD Do Androids – PKD Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C Clarke Steelheart – Sanderson 2001 A Space Odyssey – Arthur C Clarke Leila – Prayaag Akbar Time Machine – HG Wells Bear and The Nightingale – Katherine Arden The Trigan Empire – Hamlyn (Publisher) The Savage Sword of Conan + Short Stories– Marvel/Robert E Howard The Last Question – Isaac Asimov Earth to Centauri: The First Journey – Kumar L Hell!

April 22, 2018

BBB Meetup-11

Despite the fact that we had to abandon our meetup at Atta Galatta midway and rush to a gazebo outside to resume it, we still managed to have a lively conversation. When Breath becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi The Game - Neil Strauss Malazan - Steve Erikson Create Dangerously - Albert Camus The Book of Chocolate Saints - Jeet Thayil The Meursault Investigations - Kamel Daoud Essays on Nationalalism - George Orwell Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe Leila - Prayag Akbar Guards Guards - Terry Pratchett Not that Kind of a Girl - Lenna Dunham A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan Mid-Wicket Tales: From Trumper to Tendulkar - S Giridhar and V J Raghunath