Illiterarty.com Book reviews and blogs by Bridget

An incredibly candid exploration of a few of the religious and cultural elements of that great and varied nation, India. Love it or hate it, there's just something about it...

If this was a Lonely Planet guide to Portland, Oregon, it would be the SHEEZY.

Twenty one years ago this year (2007), Salman Rushdie ventured into Nicaragua; a country in Central America known almost exclusively in the the first world due to the “fact” that “the communists” had “taken over” the country, and the CIA were funding the resistance movement.

The Rum Diary is a sweaty lusty booze-filled Caribbean odyssey.

If this was an apartment block, it would be a boxily majestic, curiously liveable design of indeterminate age, which deserves to be cleaned more often.

Stopped

If this was a song, it would be Greensleeves, played on a humorously cheap synthesizer while you are distracted and hungover and yet find yourself becoming disproportionately emotional in response.