The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

 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. 

  Subho Bijoya! May Maa bless you with joy, peace and kindness.  This year was a very different experience for me. Stayed home and say Maa on TV and going by when she arrived, so I had a dinky darshan.  I hope next year is better and I am slightly better.  Here is what Pujo looked like:  My Pujo read, I read half of this in April for Nobo Borsho and read the rest of it during Pujo.  Parar Pujo.  Baba clicked this picture.  My 2027 planner arrived.  A chunky cat came to visit.  Tried to find joy in little things.  Journaled about my Pujo.  A very Bengali bookmark.  I hope this festive season has been good for you and yours.  Dugga Dugga.