Bombay Ice

by Leslie Forbes | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0553380478 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Shroffland of Snellville, Georgia USA on 2/17/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by Shroffland from Snellville, Georgia USA on Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Still to be read, but reserved for a special release.

Journal Entry 2 by Shroffland at Snellville, Georgia USA on Wednesday, December 2, 2015
A Ballycumber that I never got around to. Offered in bookstogive's General Literature VBB.

Journal Entry 3 by Shroffland at Snellville, Georgia USA on Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (4/8/2016 UTC) at Snellville, Georgia USA

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On it's way to jlauntner, chosen from the General fiction VAbB

Journal Entry 4 by jlautner at San Luis Obispo, California USA on Friday, April 15, 2016
Arrived yesterday. Thank you!

Journal Entry 5 by jlautner at San Luis Obispo, California USA on Monday, May 23, 2016
I thought I might like this better than I did. I have read several books based in India and usually find it interesting to read about the culture and the place. It seemed that a thriller based here would be especially fun to read.

But for me it wasn't. What other reviewers call a "literary thriller" didn't strike me that way, in spite of the numerous literary references throughout. The protagonist, Rosalind Benegal, simply irritated me all the way through, and her interactions with others confused me. But first a bit about the story:

Rosalind travels to India as a freelance correspondent for the BBC. She tells customs officials that she is there to report on the monsoon, which is due soon. She is really there to suss out more from her sister Miranda, who has sent odd short notes to her, suggesting all is not well. Before she is able to get with Miranda, however, she is caught up in a murder.

She then follows all kinds of paths, all the time with the suspicion that her brother-in-law, her sister's husband, is at the heart of everything she finds that's evil. Throughout the novel she pursues him, blatantly, rudely, and often, to me, unfathomably. That is, she meets people, does strange things, has strange things done to her, and then goes on to the next. All the while spouting insults that one would think would get her an invitation to leave. That happens sometimes but often not. I did not find it strange that she was found by many to be "crazy".

I gather some people find this kind of gate-crashing rudeness endearing. To me it was the last way to get results. Yet of course in some way she does manage to find things out. Why people would talk to her I have no idea.

I had difficulty sorting people out. Maybe I should have started the book with a chart where I could write names and associations so I could follow along better. Seems like that should not have been necessary. I'll admit that I don't always focus all my attention as well as I could so I would not be surprised to find that I am at least partly at fault here.

As for the literary references. They didn't do much for me. Maybe if I had read more of the original sources they would have. Maybe this just wasn't the book for me, but is the book for some others.

Journal Entry 6 by jlautner at San Luis Obispo, California USA on Monday, August 8, 2016
reserved for bookstogive's general lit VBB.

Journal Entry 7 by jlautner at Henderson, Nevada USA on Tuesday, April 14, 2020
I opted out of the general lit book box for now, so this is free to roam.

Released 2 yrs ago (4/28/2021 UTC) at Starbucks - Green Valley And Horizon Ridge in Henderson, Nevada USA

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