About us
A fun and social group to connect and discuss interesting books, movies, and podcasts.
Totally optional to actually read/watch/listen to all three - just come along for a chat!
We will meet most months - with recommendation of: 1 book, 1 movie and 1 podcast.
All genres (historical fiction, health & wellbeing, bio/memoirs, true crime, fantasy, graphic novels, page turners, etc) on the table.
I started this group to create a welcoming and embracive group of people, and to broaden my own repertoire of books/movies/podcasts.
Happy for suggestions - click 'Message' Organizer.
Upcoming events
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June meeting - Book Dream State
Poppy's Cafe, Australian War Memorial, Campbell, Canberra, AUBook: Dream State, 2025 by Eric Puchner
Spanning fifty years and set against the backdrop of a rapidly warming Montana, Dream State explores what it means to live with the mistakes of the past—both our own and the ones we’ve inherited.
Written with humor, precision, and enormous heart, both a love letter and an elegy to the American West, Dream State is a thrillingly ambitious ode to the power of friendship, the weird weather of marriage, and the beauty of impermanence.Movie: The Man Who Knew Infinity, 2015 Directed by Matthew Brown
On SBS on demand.
A British biographical drama film about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel.
The film stars Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan, a real-life mathematician who, after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of English mathematician and fellow collaborator, G. H. Hardy, portrayed by Jeremy Irons.https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/the-man-who-knew-infinity/1482206787555
Podcast: Innovation - from the spinning jenny to AI
Rear Vision 13 March 2026 on ABC ListenA wide-angle lens on the history of Innovation.
The past 250 years has seen an unprecedented surge in human ingenuity — creating six great waves of innovation.
What drove these breakthroughs? And where are we now headed?https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/innovation/106378832
16 attendees
July meeting - Book - Always home, always homesick
Poppy's Cafe, Australian War Memorial, Campbell, Canberra, AUHi everyone
Suggested content for July below! Feel free to engage in the recommendations or just come along to chat books, movies and podcasts.
Table booked at Poppy's Cafe at the Australian War Memorial.Book: Always Home, Always Homesick : A Memoir by Hannah Kent
In 2003, 17-year-old Australian exchange student Hannah Kent arrives at Keflavík Airport in the middle of the Icelandic winter.That night she sleeps off her jet lag and bewilderment in the National Archives of Iceland, unaware that, years later, she will return to the same building to write Burial Rites, the haunting story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last woman executed in Iceland.
Available at ACT LibrariesMovie: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Available on Netflix
While working nights at a small-town aquarium, a widow bonds with a clever octopus and an adrift young man in this moving drama based on the bestseller.
(This is also a book at ACT Libraries.)Podcast: The Book Club The Hound of the Baskervilles: Mystery, Folklore, and Sherlock Holmes
Episode 11: What is the true story that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's best-seller? Why have there been so many portrayals of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in media beyond the novels? Is this the greatest Sherlock story ever told?
Join Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett as they delve into the fascinating story behind the writing of The Hound Of The Baskervilles, the world it was born of, and the novel itself.
Available spotify and other platforms16 attendees
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