Meetup Recaps

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. ) A couple of people who had no idea about BBB, tantalized by the amount of noise we were making no doubt, also joined the discussion and that added to the existing flavor, so… Double yay and stuff. ✌️😊 All in all, a good meetup. ...

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! No saints in Paradise - A.K. Asif I,Robot – Isaac Asimov The Complete Robot – Isaac Asimov The Bicentennial Man – Isaac Asimov Consider Phlebas – Iain M Banks Disposessed – Ursula K Le Guin I have no mouth and I must scream – Harlan Ellison Legion – Sanderson Emperor’s Soul – Sanderson The Nine Billion Names of God – Arthur C Clarke Professor Shonku – Satyajit Ray Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu Dead Send – Cixin Liu Altered Carbon – Richard Carbon Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel The Themis Files – Sylvain Neuvel The Quantum Thief Trilogy – Hannu Rajaniemi Collected Fiction – Hannu Rajaniemi White Mars – Roger Penrose This Alien Shore – Cecilia Friedman The Crystal Trilogy – Max Harms Norse Mythology – Gaiman Coraline - Gaiman Grimus - Salman Rushdie Timeline - Michael Crichton All You Need Is Kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka Yaana - S L Bhyrappa Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne Non Genre: The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari Thinking, Fast and Slow Selfish Gene - Dawkins The Rational Man Deep Work Flow Blindness Edge of Physics – Anil Ananthaswamy The Man who wasn’t There – Anil Ananthaswamy Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates We were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Kundera Zero to One – Peter Thiel

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

We at Broke Bibliophiles Bangalore had our 2nd meetup of 2018 and 9th meetup in all on Saturday, the 24th of Feb. It was a lot of fun, even the first half of it, I’m sure. I reached late …coz..I started late. We had a lot more people join in this time and that fueled most of the conversation. Some of the books discussed were - A Room of One’s Own (by Virginia Woolf) Skin in the game (by Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Ready Player One The Elephant in the Brain (by Kevin Simler) and a smattering of Murakami as always. ...

This was the first meetup of 2018 and if spirited conversations, a lot of laughter and smiles all around are any indication, it was a lot of fun. We had a modest gathering of close to 25 people and everyone…came on time. (Fiine.. I wasn’t there on time). We went with our usual practice of talking about the last couple of books we’d read and with the gathering that we had, a lot of books were discussed. We had a few new faces ( :) ) and some old heads were absent (-_-) . ...

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This was our only meetup outdoors, at Cubbon Park.

Aaaand Meetup#5 happened as well ! :) The modest strength of the attendees notwithstanding, this was another fun meet. We had 3 new entrants today in Gokul S Nath, Amay Narayan and Palgun Kj . Also, pseudo-newbie Varun Vasudev finally made it to His first formal book-meetup as well :D The books mentioned and discussed today were - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15745753-eleanor-park The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart, #1) by Philip Pullman https://www.goodreads.com/…/sh…/114982.The_Ruby_in_the_Smoke ...

So yesterday, we had meetup #4! :) And the usual gang had gathered along with a couple of new faces. We spoke about this and that and books and yes, we ate a lot. (I’m so good at summarizing) But, the real takeaway was the collective knowledge of the books we might not have read that we individually and separately had. And we’ve made a list of those books this time :) ...