The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

  Hello November! Hello Kali Pujo. Hello Diwali. Hello my sister's birthday month.  Hello Scorpio Season.  🍂🍁🌰☕🍄🍊 I am hoping this month is gentle and kind and soft and all kinds of wonderful. My last November was full of pain and I'm hoping this year is so much better.  This is how I started my month:  Decorated my planner pages for November and gave my sister's birthday special attention.  :)  Read this easy, breezy rom-com last night.  I don't usually read romances and maybe pick up one or two a year. This one is about childhood best-friends getting estranged and them four years later meeting again and falling for each other. It was sweet enough and decent, not great but ok-ish.  2.50/5.  This is what I am currently reading: Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna, I've heard so many good things about this and I think all the buzz is justified, I am about 12% in and I'm loving it so far. I've gone into this one pretty blind and so...

 October is over. A month of Durga Pujo and Lokkhi Pujo, the most festive month in a Bengali's year.  There was a good dose of spookiness.  & For me it was a year since my stroke and a long year of healing since.  Honestly I was a little scared going into this month, since last October absolutely kicked my butt.  But this month has turned out rather kind.  Here are my faves from this month... Maa in all her glory.  Planner pages that I've minimally decorated.  Terrace time while it rains and reading for a couple of hours, while people watching on the side.  Blisssssss! Reading an old beloved book from my childhood.  Reading Bengali stories for Pujo. I started this book back in April and read half of it for Nobo Borsho and picked it up again this month and finished it for Pujo.  Did a fair amount of journaling this month and it made me so happy.  Also new journals came into our lives which is always a good thing be.  Lo...

 Hello Loves! In the honour of Halloween and all things spooky, I've read a few thrillers, Not as many as I would have liked to but I read some good ones...here is my little list.  Haunt Sweet Home is my most recent read. A home improvement haunted house reality TV show which is mostly fake till some real creepy things start happening. Fun and short and an interesting look at reality TV.  CJ Tudor is an author whose work I enjoy very much. I went into this with very high expectations.  A father and daughter inherit a dream house in an ideal township in the US, picture a Disney like vibe, if Disney made ideal townships that had a million rules. So our Brits move to this town and things are a little off. Fun enough but eventually incredibly obvious and all the reveals and twists were so easy to guess.  My first ever M.L. Rio, this little novella is about a single night and a whole lot of strangeness.  There  are creepy and gore-y things and honestly I do...

 Hello, hello, I come bearing the perfect thriller recommendations for the Spooky Season! Boo!  Without any further ado, let's get into the list (in no particular order):  1. Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak  This book is a great mix of my two favourite Spooky Season ingredients- a murder mystery and supernatural elements. A young woman, working as a nanny for a five-year-old boy, is put on the spot when the kid starts drawing strange pictures hinting at the murder of an unknown woman. He, further claims, that the woman in the pictures that he draws is with them in the house and she is the one asking him to draw these images.  A perfect blend of a murder, some historical fiction elements and, of course, some spooky supernatural stuff as well.  2. Love, Mom by Iliana Xander  A semi-epistolary style thriller wherein a young woman is sent pages from her dead mom's journal, which don't sound at all like the woman, who hated her and raised her with so much ...

 Hello Loves! Here are some of my journal pages... Journaled my Pujo days, simple as they were.  Added some whimsy to my journal, bought some lace to add to things for some fun.  Flowers and joy.