Hi all, l love to read books.Ruskin Bond is a writer of simple, beautiful stories with loss, nostalgia, lived experience, ghosts of the past, altered memories. And the settings he finds for his tales mountainous landscapes of Northern India add to the whole experience. I feel that if you take the atmosphere away, there may not be much left to the stories, because the narrative takes it cue from the backdrop. In the end these are tales that more often than not have a satisfying close. One of the best assorted stories by Bond.
The mixed collection includes romance, paranormal, horror, nostalgia, mystery and off course nature.A couple of stories were mind blowing good . Most of these stories are autobiographical . Of all the stories in this collection, "Time Stops at Shamli" makes me sentimental and all gooey inside. overall good book. I suggest to read once. Thanks for reading my review