Book review: Love Among The Bookshelves by Ruskin Bond Quote: In time I was to learn that it's the onlooker who sees more of the party than the partygoer; that it's the man on the traffic duty who sees more of the passing show than the man behind the wheel; that the man on the hilltop sees the curvature of the earth better than the man on the plain; that the hovering vultures know who is winning the battle long before the opposing armies; and that, when all the wars are done, a butterfly will still be beautiful. The first time I found the name of P.G. Woodhouse, was when I read Ruskin Bond; the one who intrigued me about Wuthering Heights even before joining college was Mr. Bond; the one who told me you don't necessarily have to grasp everything Charles Dickens wrote was old Rusty. Love Among the Bookshelves is part memoir part anthology and part fanboying. The boy in Ruskin Bond never grew old. Here we also get introduced to the authors and poets who made a l...
I am a mad-foe, who observes, absorbs and chronicles.