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Today's post is rather special; joining us today on The Seaside Library are book bloggers Saloni Porwal and Vibhiksha Yadav! Saloni and Vibhiksha write book reviews and other enticing articles for their blog,  BookGuru . Read on to know more about them and how their brainchild came to be! Tell me more about the three of you. How did you come upon the idea of creating a book blog?  Saloni-  I started writing a book in 2020, but I didn’t plan properly and I couldn’t write as well as I wanted to. I have always been a bookworm and since I knew a little about blogging, I decided to start a blog and post book reviews so that I could practise writing. I didn’t think it would grow so much back then.  Vibhiksha-  I got into reading because of Saloni and when she started a blog, I started helping her at first and then became a part of the blog.  How was your initial blogging experience?  Saloni- Initially, I was doing it just for f un. I didn’t intend for ...

Author: PG Wodehouse Acquired in: May 2019 If there is ever a strain of monotony in a Wodehouse book, check what you're reading again; you may have picked up something else. Trust Wodehouse to wring humour out of crusty old manors with equally crusty old men. Bertie and Jeeves, the aristocrat-butler duo are at odds at the beginning of the book. While Jeeves presses a disinterested Bertie to book a world cruise, trouble arrives in the form of a newt enthusiast, a cow-creamer and the usual menagerie of angsty lovers. What is a cow creamer? Well, that's a cow-shaped pitcher for holding cream or milk. As simple as such a utensil may seem, things get heated up between silver crockery collectors and arch-nemeses Sir Watkyn Bassett and Bertie's old Uncle Tom, both of whom are vying for the same antique pitcher. With Aunt Dahlia imploring him to secure the curios to preserve the Woosters' dignity, the family-proud Bertie sets off to Totleigh Towers, albeit not finding his mis...