Cocktails and Chats Book Club

Special session it was, last week. We watched the documentary " I am not your Negro" by James Baldwin

This week's read - The Doctor and The Saint by Arundhati Roy

For the next meeting on 30th April, we will be celebrating Gaiman Saturday ! we will be reading two of his short works - " how to talk to girls at parties" and " a study in emerald " . The former can be found here - neilgaiman.com/Cool_Stuff/Sho…

wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2016/11/arriva… 👆 A very well articulated piece of the differences between the movie and the book

The movie just simply ends on a poem. Its pretty much like reading a short story. Whereas in a mainstream holly flick involving aliens, you would expect a conflict->climax->resolution. Arrival does not differ from the pack in this aspect, but it is where it differs from the book.

Omg what a session it was last week! We read Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang. And holy effin god my bros in christ is it mind blowing ??!!!

This whole book is a treasure, but this particular in it is just a Gem 💎 Also, this short film by pixar is on similar lines. Give it a watch if you can!

"Without looking up, I asked for her help in tracing out the character for Ai on the paper below Mom’s letter. I wrote the character again and again on the paper, intertwining my pen strokes with her words."

We read The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu this week. A visual representation 👇 (🧵)