QRB Meeting Notes: 17th October 2026

The food description was fabulous, the romance was slow burn & tension filled, and the travel within the plot was immersive...

Fruit Flies Like A Banana: Review of 'Fruit Fly'

Enjoyment is amplified if one has read Virginia Woolf closely. It is amplified even more if one hasn't, but has pretended to have read it.

Reaper Man By Sir Terry Pratchett

Disclaimer: This is probably the second book I am reading with an understanding that I'm gonna be writing a review of it. The first one was a text book on Survival analysis (OOh nice symmetry), but I've written some movie reviews in the past, some published

Throwback: Meeting Notes 21st June 2025

The thing of course is that Carmilla is capable of very different sorts of readings

Throwback: Meeting Notes 17th May 2025

We could think of aromanticism in this particular instance not as a theme or as a genre but rather as strategy – to live a life or tell a story that doesn’t have the insistence the romance genre has on partnerships at all.

QRB Meeting notes: 19th September 2026

the QRB book club is a place for subjective opinions, and our opinions tell you a lot about us, and less about the book.

Books to Queer by: Review of 'Queer India Now'

Reading in crowded train compartments where it didn't matter who saw you, in secret nooks...anyone who looked at the book and looked into my eyes would instantly know... that somehow just holding the book made me - was making me - queer. Of course it was. This is the power of books. 

Your Trans Library Starts Now.

So here are some books — written this century even! — by and about trans feminine and trans masculine people in India. This is just a start. To reading. To support, look for queer and trans groups in your area. They are almost definitely on Instagram or Facebook or online, to email or message.)

QRB Meeting Notes: 17th January, 2026

The Books We Loved in 2025; The book we broadly agreed was not what we wanted it to be; And what we're reading in February

We have a blog!

Give me some time, since I am old and the internet is big. What you need to know right now: We are a queer book club, reading queer books, prioritising queer lives and queer peeps. We're based in Bangalore. Anyone can join — but we mean it when we