We have about 50 people attending the meetings where as the Facebook page has about 100 members. All sorts of questions come up and everyone is open to asking anything from writing of the book to the raison d’etre of the book in the first place! You will be surprised the kind of searching questions people ask. Then we have the floor thrown open to members to ask questions and interact with the author. The concept is simple- the author comes in and talks to the gathering introducing her or his book.
The coming meeting in September has Vikram Sampath and ‘My name is Gauhar Jaan!–the life and times of a musician’. Subsequent to that I have had Jahnavi Barua and her ‘Rebirth’, Janaki Murali and ‘The Colour of Dawn’ and Gita Aravamudan and ‘Dissapearing Daughters’. So our very first author was Jackie Colaco with Bridget White who came in next and third came Vijay Nair. However for some reason Schonali and her friends decided to keep the coffee shop venues and I could not back out of the CC request so – iBrowse was born! To make it different from all the usual book clubs, I decided to call authors to come and speak to our members. The book facility was given to the CC members. They also threw in coffee and biscuits and that they would purchase five copies of the book we are going to discuss, for us readers. Like any official request, it took a few months for the CC managing committee to pass a resolution agreeing to let me hold the book club at their library. Since the club did not have a fixed venue to meet in and was having the meetings in coffee shops, I decided to pitch in and ask the CC if they would mind letting us use their brand new Library. Schonali Rebello began a book club called ‘On the Same Page’ and I joined along with other friends. Is it already six months since I began my iBrowse book club in the Catholic Club (CC)? The months seem to have flown by and there are a lot more readers coming in to enjoy a discussion and listen in to the guest author of the month!Īuthor Gita Aramvudan with her books.
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