Reserved for DameBlanche

Ein Krimi in Bollywood !

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enjoy!

Last night when I returned home after a workful day and my friend's poodle's birthday party, I found the parcel in my postbox.

Although it was very late, I savoured at least the blurb and some newspaper comments inside the book. It sounds very promising to me!

Tonight after work I welcomed the book with a cup of Indian-style tea "Raji Tee Chai Vanille", brewed with as much milk as water, as they do in Pakistan and maybe in India, too. I read the preface called FLASHBACK: Bengal Light" and was suddenly confronted with a cool, filmlike view on the murder of a woman, being pushed from a high-rise building! Very shocking, but a tremendous entrance for a seemingly exotic-gothic-magic thriller.

I am very much looking forward to further reading! But I thought I should first state safe receipt of the book before I am so much caught that I can no more stop myself from reading for writing.

Manymanymany thanks to Geegal for sending me the book!

It was indeed a very rich, interesting, sometimes shocking novel showing a close view on Bombay film Industry, Society and business where the life of a poor human beings means nothing compared to a "good society" members' chances of earning a lot of money... Behind this, a lot of personal and family conflicts... an amazing novel!

So many thanks to you, Geegal, to give me this book as a present! I will mark it pc, but it will stay free to be borrowed. Eventually, I'll make a bookring.

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Ich nehme das Buch mit zum Meet-up ins "Labyrinth", um einen Bookring damit zu starten.

Der Bookring ist gestartet - Hier die endgültige Teilnehmerliste:

The bookring has started. Here the definite member list:

1. Pinardelrio, Aachen, Germany

2. Finde-Fuchs, Warthausen, Germany

3. mimi4711, Köln, Germany

4. toshokanin, Dresden, Germany

5. Anke68, Hamburg, Germany

6. wyldewomin, East Bridgewater, MA, USA

7. buffra, West Virginia, USA

8. Lorelei03, NY, USA

9. loveamystery, Vancouver, Canada

10. fio-dagua, Porto, Portugal

11. Stoxasths, Greece

12. eatsletters, Berlin, Germany

13. Washti, Glinde, Germany

14. zurück an mich

Caught during our monthly meet-up.
Sent to finde-fuchs 20/8/05. I'm afraid I'm not able to concentrate on foreign language books at this time.

Arrived yesterday! Thank you very much for the ring, it is on the top of my Mount TBR -so it should be passed on in about 2-3 weeks, since I am busy moving house.

I think this paragraph says a lot about the book without giving away too much:
"Ice in the tropics: ultimate symbol of civilization. In bombay they used to believe that iced water must by definition be pure, regardless of its origins. it was offered as a medical drink to guests at bedtime, a hot climate response to a warm milk or Holicks. It looked so clear and Western, so incompatible with India. But that's just packaging. Buried inside is the germ that makes you sick. It's the thing you trust that kills you." Pg 163

Brilliant Fiction (I hope it IS fictional *gg*)! Being both bold and subtle it is one of the rare books I really really wish not having to pass on to someone else... I enjoyed it that much and re-read some chapters. For me it is one of those "WOW"-books that make that whatever you read afterwards, it won't live up to the previous read.
I like the whole feeling of it: movie-like, heavy with impressions and dramatic revelations. I especially enjoyed the parallels that exist between the action, the movie that is made by the heroines' brother-in-law and the monsoon that is about to start with all its violence and disturbing yet necessary impact.
There are so many references in this, so many quotable sentences but still it doesn't come across as being pathetic or "overloaded". I can hardly decide which is my favourite quote. But there is one sentence that stuck ever since I read it:
"We were always leaving places I loved in storms" Pg 36

Thanks so much for the ring!
The book is on its way to mimi4711

I got the book some time ago - but I didn't get round to registering it. I had a child in the meantime and I moved house. But now I started reading it and I quite like it so far! Later more.

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Morgen werfe ich es in den Briefkasten - I'll chuck it in the mail tommorrow.
I really liked the book, very gripping. Only it got lost in one of my many boxes. I found it yesterday and now it'll travel on. Sorry for taking so much time!

I got the book from the post office on Saturday. Thank you!

Comment: Well, I was really looking forward to read this book because I hoped the plot was somehow oriental and exotic. But in my oppinion its just an ordinary, very violent and very bloody thriller. After finishing it I still don't really know who did what to whom and for what reason (now I remember why I stopped reading mysteries some years ago). Not my kind of book, I'm afraid.

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the book travels on to Anke68

The book arrived here today with a nice and matching postcard inside thanks a lot for sending it. I´m looking forward to reading the book.

Oops, it seems I kept the book for quite some time... Maybe that was because it took me quite long to read, as I found the plot not easy to get into. I didn´t really enjoy the book, I found it quite confusing and I had hoped the book would tell more about India and its people.

Thanks for letting me join this bookring anyway! A book just can´t be everyone´s favourite.

As soon as I get wyldewomin´s address, the book will travel on.

Came while I was on vacation. Thank you for the lovely postcard.

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Excellent book - sorry to take so long.
Sending on to Buffra

Caught it! Thanks!

:)

I'm so sorry for keeping this too long. I started it, got distracted, and it sort of got hidden in a pile of my own books in the bedroom.

Just wanted to let you know that it is moving again and was mailed out today.

Many apologies!!

rcvd in mail, but am fighting a stomach flu and may take a bit to read - apologies in advance.

loveamystery has purchased this book (couldn't wait to read it!) and so has asked that we skip to the next person on the ring.

haven't heard back from fio-dagua, so on to the third person (sheesh!)

alrighty. On my second attempt to reach Stoxasths. If that doesn't work, then on to the fourth(!) person.

this is surreal. Now on to eatsletters. (I swear my email is working folks - I get stuff from folks every day!)

Okay, eatsletters has just gotten a new job (congratulations!) so hasn't the time for fiction nowadays. On to the 5th person...

Hooray! Washti is ready for this book, so I am sending it off to her this weekend. Many thanks to DameBlanche for setting this up two whole years ago!

Hurray! It arrived at last! I already feared it had gone lost - phew!

Thanks for sending it, Lorelei03.
So after all, had I just waited another day before pm-ing you, it wouldn't have been necessary at all! ;-)

I hope the book will be worth it ;-)

I absolutely loved it! I somehow like to read books about India or taking place there - without wishing to travel there, very strange. But this one was a really good one :-)

Well and now it will return to DameBlanche, I think.

Thanks!

So, heute (13.7.07) habe ich das Buch an DameBlanche zurückgeschickt (und mir die deutsche Ausgabe gekauft...)

After a long and far journey, "Bombay Ice" returned safely and in still enormously good condition, accompanied by a long list of fairly controversal journal entries. It must be a real "Love-It-Or-Hate-It-Book"...

Many thanks to all of you who joined the bookring and stated your personal view in the journal! It's so interesting to read!

My special thanks also to Geegal who gave me the book and so a chance for this adventure!

For me, it is now time to read "Bombay Ice" again...