Review: Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
Review / January 9, 2014

Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Arrow Books
Year: 1947
ISBN: 9780099590682
Rating: ★★★★☆
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A comedy of errors using ‘concatenation of circumstances’, Wodehouse’s Joy In The Morning amuses and bemuses us in each and every page. Paper has rarely been put to better use than printing Wodehouse.

Review: The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
Review / January 8, 2014

Author: Shashi Tharoor
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Year: 1993
ISBN: 9781559701945
Rating: ★★★★☆
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This is one of those rare novels that live up to its name. The satire inherent in the title pervades the pages of the book, which is a fictional account of two of the most important components of Indian history/mythology- the Mahabharat and British-Indian politics. Conceptually, the mind boggles at the fusion of two such entities, but Tharoor manages to reconcile them, and how!

Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Review / January 6, 2014

Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Definitions
Year: 2008
ISBN: 9781862302914
Rating: ★★★★★
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The Book Thief is a New York Times bestseller by American author Markus Zusak. It has won numerous awards and was turned into a motion film by the same name in 2013. Set in Nazi Germany of World War II, it is a story of a young German girl who is torn between hope and devastation. Her only solace is the books she steals.