TY - BOOK AU - Tharoor, Shashi. AU - Shashi Tharoor. TI - Bookless In Baghdad SN - 9780143418955 U1 - 824 THA PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - : Penguin Books LTD KW - English Essays KW - Essays KW - Literatures N2 - Shashi Tharoor began reading books Enid Blyton Noddy series, when he was three. For many years afterwards, he read a book a day. Bookless in Baghdad brings together pieces written by this compulsive reader and prolific writer on the subject closest to his heart, reading. Tharoor takes us on a delightful journey of discovery, as he wanders the book souk in a Baghdad under sanctions where the middle-class are selling their volumes so that they can afford to live and drives around Huesca looking to pay an idiosyncratic tribute to George Orwell ER -