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  Title of the book is apt " Falling in Love Again ", Ruskin Bond reminisces all the episodes of love in his life with a current-mature-mindset. Presumably, he wrote this one to heal himself through all his numerous life-episodes of unrequited love! Touching the delightful cover, with swarming colorful butterflies hovering all over, my search for Ruskin Bond's definition of love started. This evenly-paced book is all about love forbidden, so I couldn't take it as a tongue-in-cheek writing ! It is flooded with insidious emotions.  Again I presume, one cannot count Ruskin's financial strain as the only cause for him not taking the plunge into marriage, but the ache of unrequited love ! The introduction includes Ruskin Bond's favorite writer PG Wodehouse's quote - " You know, the way love can change a fellow, is truly frightful to contemplate ".  I agree, guess we all have undergone aggressive transformations in some way or the other. This ...

I am not a literature student but an engineer. I am someone who easily falls in love with books from fantasy and fiction genres, specifically magical realism. I love to dangle in both the primary and secondary worlds (trust me I do that whole day long, that's my happy space). Most of the reviews I have given till date are positive, be it for classics or the genres I mentioned. My heart melts like hot chocolate whenever I pick up books belonging to aforesaid genres , and not being a literature student or a stern critic, I overlook atmospheric, character or plot settings seldom going askew. ( I eat, drink, breathe the non-tangible before drifting to the tangible). This one is definitely not my taste. Maybe because greater emphasis was laid upon in the start for building the somber setting for justifying reasons of depression and suicide (and this eats away a greater part). The rest is breathable as it ensues into improvisations and meeting/rectifying/ justifying the old. But all in a...