The 42nd meetup of BBB happened on the 26th of September 2021. This was the first physical meetup since the pandemic started, so it was a big deal!

The 37th meetup of BBB and the 1st meetup of the year happened on the 31st of Jan. We had a couple of newbies and also Deepti Srivatsa, who happens to be the author of a Crime novel called “The Hauntup”! The discussion also meandered into talking, among other things, about authors who build interlinked worlds in their noves a la Brandon Sanderson and also whether or not movies that end up having multiple sequels are cashgrabs or actually have significance.

Our 31st meetup in all and our third meetup online was a small informal meetup that quickly escalated into a discussion of books! A lot of history, and non-fiction this time, with a dash of fiction. And that, is one good recipe for an awesome discussion. One of the books on this list opens up closer home,an amazing work of fiction penned by a BBB member and a friend of ours - John Raju :) ; the book in question being The Purgatory of Half Forgotten Riddles.

The first Meetup of 2020 and our 26th meetup in all, this one had a nice mixture of newbies and regulars. Amid cheesy chilli pops and coffee, much was discussed about the law, Indian authors and much fiction and non-fiction. We even had some people flit in and sit in randomly because they saw us discussing books. Another interesting observation was the reference to books discussed in earlier meetups.

This was a special meetup for a couple of reasons. This was the first meetup that was conducted at a house rather than at a cafe or a park. And when one of our members, Gayathri, generously offered up her art studio as a venue for our meetup I jumped at the offer. I didn’t know how it would go because we’d always relied on snacks and beverages from a cafe.

There were 17 people at our 24th meetup on the 24th of November and this time, we were joined by the awesome Gautam Shenoy, but in true celebrity fashion, he escaped the glare of the paparazzi and therefore does not feature in the picture below :( Jokes apart though, I learnt about a lot of new books in this meetup and I hope you all did too. The following were the books discussed (and yes, this is a Lot of books.

We had 20 people at the meetup this Sunday and we had more than the usual number of newbies! The discussions got very spirited very fast and I personally enjoyed it all, a lot. I hope you did too :) The following were the books discussed - Pachinko Fooled by Randomness Factfulness Cities and Canopies 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World Of Swans and Songs The Waves Late Bloomers The Silent Patient A Man called Ove In Custody The difficulty of being good The Palace of Illusions The Forest of Enchantments The Call of Cthulhu The Boys Book of Blood (?

I’ll write the preamble to this meetup later. Too sleepy right now at * checks clock * 11:18 PM. Had a lot of fun discussing them books though :D Thank you all for coming. Yes, Mr.Das is an amazing person but evidently the worst photographer. The following were the books (and authors - indicated by ‘A’ ) discussed - Born a Crime - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29780253-born-a-crime David Eddings (A) - https://www.

Today’s meetup, as the previous meetup did, had 16 members and was again at our regular venue - Atta Galatta. We had 3 new members in addition to 12 other old-heads and it was, as always, a lot of fun! The following were the books discussed - A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (https://www.goodreads.com/series/42069-a-series-of-unfortunate-events) Beast (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44587297) Birthday Girl (https://www.goodreads.com/fa/book/show/40554247-birthday-girl) Birthday Stories (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45301.Birthday_Stories) The Time Traveler’s Wife (https://www.

Today’s meetup had 16 members attending and went on for a spirited 3 hours! This time, we switched locations from our regular favorite (Atta Galatta) to a new bookcafe in the city - Champaca - and it.was.BEAUTIFUL! The members loved the place and the hosts Radhika, Pavithra and Rahul were awesome! :grin: The following were the books discussed - Exit West (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30688435-exit-west) The Reluctant Fundamentalist (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961543-the-reluctant-fundamentalist) In the sea there are crocodiles (https://www.

Today’s meetup had 12 members attending and spanned 2 hours :) The following were the books discussed - S (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17860739-s) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195941-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism) The Lost Decade (2008-18) (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45162304-the-lost-decade-2008-18) Multiple City (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068381-multiple-city) Strange Worlds! Strange Times! (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42964933-strange-worlds-strange-times-amazing-sci-fi-stories) The Sixth String of Vilayat Khan (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42686678-the-sixth-string-of-vilayat-khan) The Cricket War (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34954111-the-cricket-war) Remembrance of Earth’s Past (https://www.goodreads.com/series/189931-remembrance-of-earth-s-past) Ball Lightning (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15822390) The Wolf of Wall Street (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522776.The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street) Flow (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow) Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (https://www.

It was a smaller bunch of people this time but we still discussed a lot of books and it was fun :) The following are the books that were discussed in the March 2019 meetup. - Mistborn (https://www.goodreads.com/series/40910-mistborn) Malazan (https://www.goodreads.com/series/43493-malazan-book-of-the-fallen) Warbreaker (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1268479.Warbreaker) The Emperor’s Soul (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13578175-the-emperor-s-soul) The Silent Patient (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40097951-the-silent-patient) The Kind Worth Killing (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21936809-the-kind-worth-killing) Dark Matter (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833670-dark-matter) The Wayward Pines Trilogy (https://www.goodreads.com/series/116296-wayward-pines) The Handmaid’s Tale (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale) Ubuntu (https://www.

This time we had a couple of new people join us, including some interested in children’s stories and poetry as well, in addition to the usual mix of fiction and non-fiction that are normally discussed. The following are the books that were discussed in the Jan 2019 meetup. - Children’s stories - Gruffalo Here we Are The color Thief The little prince The days the crayons quit Duck, Death and the Tulip Publishers - Tulika Publishers Karadi Tales The Inscrutable Americans (https://www.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 :)

This was the very first unofficial meetup. We didn’t know each other. We didn’t even know who was really coming. All we knew was that there was a books By Weight event happening at Basava Bhavan and that a few folks and I from Broke Bibliophiles Bangalore were going to be there. We bought what we could and wound up having lunch at a restaurant opposite the venue. :)