The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

1. Ah! Enid Blyton! I love her books. Her books are basically my entire childhood reading. I adore her books and their characters.  I have read the entire Famous Five series and loved it! I want to...at some point...in the distant future buy all the books and add to my personal collection. Ah! Some day! Fingers crossed! 2. Of course I've read the entire Harry Potter series...multiple times over. Love it! 3. I read the Hunger Games series is much hyped-up Young Adult  book series that I am sure most of you have heard about and even read. I heard of these books around 2011 and got the first one and really enjoyed it. Then I got the second and third ones and breezed through them. I hadn't read a dystopian book till I read this one and I didn't know what to expect going in. I was quite surprised that I enjoyed it.  Looking back though I have quite a few issues with these books. For one, the whole idea of this society remaining silent for 75 years an...

1. Pretty little bracelet stacks, I am horribly partial to turquoise and love wearing it alone or paired with other colours.  The bracelets in the picture above are all from Forever 21.  The ones below are from Accessorize and Forever New.  2. Cute little bookmarks, I love them, buy them, hoard them and use them. I like mine pretty, funky and unique. The one with the elephant trio is made of elephant poop. I am not joking. Elephant poop...but it doesn't smell if you were wondering. :)  3. Bright orange-coral lipsticks. This one from Maybelline is a matte finish lippie that doesn't over dry the lips and it rather moisturizing.  4. The Lowland just might be my favourite book of the year. I love Jhumpa Lahiri. I love the stories, the people and her writing is exquisite. I haven't done a review for this book yet...but I intend to. I didn't want to write a review right after I finished the book because I didn't want to gush a bit t...

Book: Murder on the Orient Express Author: Agatha Christie Pages: 322  Plot Summary:  Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.  My Thoughts: I first read  Murder on the Orient Express when I was 12-13 years old and I just loved it! I re-read it last night (because I wanted something comforting) and I still loved it. The story is a simple yet intriguing one. A bunch of people are travelling on the train in the thick of winter. In the posh first class compartment, on a night when the train is snowed in, a rich man is found stabbed 12 times to...

Book: A Matter of Time Author: Shashi Deshpande Pages: 269 How Long it Took Me to Read: 2 days Plot Summary:   One morning, with no warning, Gopal -- respected professor, devoted husband, and caring father -- walks out on his family for reasons even he cannot articulate. His wife, Sumi, returns with their three daughters to the shelter of the Big House where her parents, Kalyani and Shripati, live in oppressive silence: they have not spoken to each other in thirty-five years.  As the mystery of this long silence is unraveled, a horrifying story of suffering and loss is laid bare, a story that seems to be repeating itself in Sumi's life.Set in present day Karnataka, A Matter of Time explores the intricate relationships within an extended family encompassing three generations. Images from Hindu religion, myth, and local history twine delicately with images of contemporary India as this family faces and accepts the changes that have suddenly become part of their...

Another round of Friday Favourites! I am quite enjoying sharing some of my favourite things with all of you- my bookish friends! :) The little doll with the pink outfit is from Either Or (Pune) and is just adorable. Soap & Glory's 'Hand Food' is a delightfully fragranced handcream. It is neither too thick nor too greasy and is in a size that makes it convenient to be toted around in a, well, tote. (Hah! That was kind of unintentional!)  Avid readers usually tend to have an equally big collection of bookmarks and my sister and I are no different. This prettily typeset bookmark with the very wise words from Gilbert Chesterton is from Filter.  As the nights are getting slightly cooler here in Mumbai, we've been gravitating towards comfort food. This spiced eggplant and chicken hummus from Moshe's is just so good!  A favourite journal in which my sister writes her thoughts. This is from itokri.com and is made by an indie design...

I didn't buy one new book in the month of October. Therefore, there wasn't a book haul to share on the blog. It wasn't a planned move on my part. Though I've said time and again that I need to go on a Book Buying Ban, but each time I've failed miserably. I like buying books and I cannot stop.  But in October I just didn't buy books.  And it felt good.  I got 8 of these books from Flipkart and 2 of these from stores.  I might get more books as the month rolls on. I want 3 books from Flipkart...the heart wants what the heart wants! So there just might be a little haul in the near future. 

Book: And The Mountains Echoed Author: Khaled Hosseini Pages: 475 How Long it Took Me To Read: 2 days Plot Summary: Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed begins simply enough, with a father recounting a folktale to his two young children. The tale is about a young boy who is taken by a div (a sort of ogre), and how that fate might not be as terrible as it first seems—a brilliant device that firmly sets the tone for the rest of this sweeping, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel. A day after he tells the tale of the div , the father gives away his own daughter to a wealthy man in Kabul. What follows is a series of stories within the story, told through multiple viewpoints, spanning more than half a century, and shifting across continents. The novel moves through war, separation, birth, death, deceit, and love, illustrating again and again how people’s actions, even the seemingly selfless ones, are shrouded in ambiguity. This is a masterwork b...

This weekend we celebrated my sister's birthday. We ate. We drank. We met friends. We shopped.  And we had a wonderful time.  We also spied some great Bombay-winter sunsets.  Ate delicious little mini-cupcakes.  Ate yummy food at California Pizza Kitchen and had amazing Pink Lemonade.  Ate Sushi for my sister's birthday dinner.  Also our house looked very colourful this weekend, all thanks to the birthday girl who is our chief decorator!  Happy birthday sisterness!!!! Hope we have many, many, many such wonderful weekends to celebrate your day of birth. :) 

1. I am loving these balmy-lip-stain-tint-thing! They are easily to just slap on and give a hint of colour and moisturise my lips all at once. I might be ignoring my lipsticks in favour of these things. I love the ones Revlon makes but I LOVE the original Clinique ones. Also the Clinique Intense Chubbysticks are amazing. Great colour pay-off and super hydrating. I have 3 of the Clinique Chubbysticks and I highly, highly recommend them.  2. I love clean, simple notebooks. This one with a spiffy bee on it just darling.  3. Cute little cloth bags/// this one people doing yoga just cracks me up! I especially love the aunty doing yoga in her salwar-kameez! She is so cute! :) 4. I love indoor Diwali lights (which stay on well-past New year in my home) and reading dark, delicious books. I loved this book by Audrey Niffenegger, I loved the sibling relationships in this book and the strange and special bond twins share. And the writing is just brilliant. ...