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Book Review #106: ‘My Favourite Nature Stories’ by Ruskin Bond

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‘My Favourite Nature Stories’ by Ruskin Bond (C) Aishwary Mehta.

The story behind this photograph – The book is completely about how beautiful nature is and how peaceful one gets when surrounded by it. Thus, this image is of Chapa Plant, on my terrace garden which gives these beautiful white flowers in its peak season.

Author – Ruskin Bond   |    Genre – Nature, Short stories

Publishing House – Rupa Publications India

Source – Purchased    |    ASIN – B01FXQCVLG

Published in – May 2016

Format – Kindle eBook    |    Pages – 148

Quote from the book I Liked –

‘Time, place and emotions must coalesce, hence the rarity of these occasions. Delight cannot be planned for – she makes no appointments.’ (Page no. 25)

Stars – 5 Stars

Plot Summary – 

In this charming collection, Ruskin Bond talks about his various encounters with the natural world. From the chorus of cicadas to the song of the whistling thrush, from his love for seashells to his favourite place on earth, Bond details why he has such an overwhelming love for nature. This book is for all who cherish the green world, just as Bond does.

About the Author –

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children’s authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

My Review –

This book is not just a book of short stories by Ruskin Bond, but these stories are more of a feeling. While reading them, you’ll get transcended to the mountains, surrounded by the huge Chinar trees of the Himalayan Ranges. Where the rivers flow silently, where the monkeys dance over the trees. All those who have visited the mountains once or even those who haven’t will find an immediate connection, a peaceful notion of being within nature. Of being a larger part than a speck of dust in this universe. The stories are those of Ruskin Bond’s early days when he used to live in the house surrounded by mountains and where he found his true place. I’ll recommend this book to all, Everyone!

What I liked – The way he tells the story.

What could’ve been better – Everything is amazing.

Writing Style – Soothing

Conclusion – This book is not a short storybook but a feeling in itself.

18th BOOK of 2020 (142 books read overall)

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