Falling in Love Again by Ruskin Bond
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Collection of love and romance short stories from the great Ruskin.
In this collection, there are a few heart touching stories that will stay in heart. Then there are few which are just normal and boring.
Nature - something that Ruskin can't avoid. Even when he is writing about love and romance, he just can't keep nature out of context. The places where he explains nature, compares love/partner with nature are lovely.
For many stories, there is no such thing as end or what I feel like not an end. They were merely love incidents happened in somebody's life. Not love stories that will have a proper end. I don't mind if they had positive or negative end, but all I wanted was a solid end, which I couldn't find in many of the stories.
There are few touchy lines here and there like 'love the days I loved her' , 'it's not time that is passing. it's you and I' , 'one should love at all time of life' , etc.
Overall it's a one time read and few can be re-read when touch of love is required :)
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The Heat and Dust Project: The Broke Couple's Guide to Bharat by Saurav Jha
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is my 1st travel book (non-fictional) and it didn't stop me from reading any of such genre further. In fact I think I will read the sequels of this book too.
The first few pages made me realize that this is not a fast read. Yes, this is a slow read and it took me almost a month to finish it.
This book is a casual writing from a couple who left their regular job and started traveling, on a tight budget. I think this book will be more realistic to an Indian than a foreigner because the lifestyle and environment reflected in this book is desi and it takes some imagination for non-Indians to understand. But this will give a picture of how normal India is, to non-Indian readers.
New environments, people, little bit of their lives, etc etc make it good to read. Narration is done by both authors in turn. It's a new try and I feel it is kinda cool.
The only negative I feel about this book is there is not much other than traveling, locations, their history and people met in path. A little bit of sarcasm, fun and love here and there, but I think it would have better if they were a little more.
I know it's non-fiction and we can't expect it to be how we like, but I felt them missing and so they came up to me as negative.
The way they wrote this book made me think about such travel. Though I cannot take risky decisions like them (too many dependencies :/ ), travel/exploring might become part of my life because of the authors.
This book will be awesome for travelers and a good read for anybody who love reading. Only exception is, if you are core fiction/suspense fellow, then you might not like it much.
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