While Lekha's out seeing the world, three middle-aged bookworms continue the nonfiction discussion, delving into philosophy, astrophysics, and books that help us better understand our habits.

Continuing with nonfiction, talking about historical accounts, Anthony Lawrence books, Wager, and other accounts. We briefly delve into how historical accounts are often written from a biased viewpoint, with perhaps a few unpopular thoughts as well.

The conversation is centered around the topics covered in The Sixth Extinction, Vinil Paul's historical accounts, and Cosmos.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910054-the-sixth-extinction?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=BfUcWTQgjD&rank=1

https://www.instagram.com/vinil.paul/?hl=en

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55030.Cosmos?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10

We talk about non-fiction authors, digressing aplenty as we are used to, but discussing Bill Bryson and Stephen King's non-fiction books.

Kiego Higashino, Jo Nesbo, Lajo Jose and more

Many of you, like us would have started this genre with those two stalwarts - Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie... We talk about those classics and how they got us into reading.

We discuss Andy Weir, Dan Brown, Sidney Sheldon, JK Rowling, and some Malayalam authors, and we notice the trend- every author has a shelf life!

Do authors have a shelf life?

Can authors ever write continuously without losing the connection with the audience?

The gang discusses this in depth, starting with Dan Browne and Matthew Reilly

We continue the discussion about the books that became best sellers, but were let downs from our personal perspectives.

We discuss books that went viral, but turned out to be let-downs when we read them. Chetan Bhagat, Amish, Stephanie Meyer and E L James!