Kadmanivasi. My Blog. Geeta Ramani

A choice of five books lay in front of me! I had just returned after visiting my daughters, earlier in London and then in Washington DC … an immensely enjoyable and memorable holiday.  As I flipped through the pages…some words caught my attention; Cleveland Park , Georgetown University Hospital , Cambridge , Massachusetts . I had driven past these places and these sights were fresh in my memory. I looked at the title: Stay of Execution . My love for murder mysteries and the familiar settings helped me decide. Now I could tell my daughter the dark secrets these places held! So it was - The Stay of Execution by Stewart Alsop. I expected the book to be a cloak and dagger thriller, a murder, a false witness, a wronged sentence and the ultimate justice! The book was this and much more. It held me day and night..! I was spell bound.….it was dfficult to put down…It gripped my heart and soul…It opened my eyes! And for the first time in many many years, I sat up to think and dec...

If I walk down my street, say about fifty steps and look left, I can see the majestic Bay of Bengal , always blue, always breezy! So I walk another fifty steps and I am there, amidst Nature’s most bountiful and beautiful creation! Thus I begin my solitary sojourn by the sea, with quickening step and  curious glance about me. There are hundreds of people at the sea shore. Like me, they have converged here, to walk, to take in the fresh air, to meet friends, to spend another hour, before heading home and preparing for another routine day!. I watch them all...people, of different sizes in different attires, with different features, at different paces! So different they are all from one another, yet so similar, all in a bond which binds them and breaks them. At the corner, I hear an angry young man, speaking loud into the mobile, unconcerned, for he has so many concerns! Till another young man drives down, gets out and looks into the mirror combing his hair! Waiting for his love! A...

Comeback!  by Dick Francis Comeback tells us what happened when the Protagonist - diplomat Peter Darwin, went back to his boyhood country of Gloucestershire after twenty long years. It tells of the bane of small towns and villages, how people and places change, yet remain the same in many ways. The book provides an insight into the world of horse racing and the underbelly of horse owners, racers, vets and insurers. The death of prize horses baffles everyone and you don't need to be a detective to detect that crime trail. You must be curious to connect cause to effect or vice versa! We read about how professional reputation maybe everything to one and how another may tear it apart unintentionally.  And finally how friendship can be a true blessing! You might meet someone and become his friend instantly and know someone from years and yet not be his friend! It is a story of friendship and hope...an interesting, absorbing and well paced book. DREAM COUNTRY by Luanne Ri...