The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

Hello!  Three months of the year are already over! It goes by faster and faster every year.  March was a good month. Even though it signaled the end of my two month holiday in my parent's hometown and stay with family, it was a nice month overall.  It had my Maa's birthday.  Family time.  Two flights.  Back to Bombay.  Cleaning up our flat.  Getting back to the swing of things.  Blogging more regularly. Being more organised.  Cooking many meals at homes.  Ice-creams.  Shopping--- both online and IRL. :)  TV shows.  Reading.  Baking.  Writing.  All good things.  But let's see some of the things I've being loving all month long!  1. Pretty things from Kikkik --- the haul post is coming, I promise. I just loved everything we picked up. So cute! Just perfect!  2. Facial Ubtan from Forest Essentials --- A cousin of ours gifted this jar of magic to us earlier in the month and we, the sister and I, have been lovin

March was a good book buying month. Not only did I add some delightful physical books to my real like bookshelves, I also added some ebooks to my virtual bookshelves..mainly mu Kindle bookshelves.  I got these books on my Kindle and I am excited to get to them over the next few months.  Three Souls-  Janie Chang ..a book set in China and about the idea that we have three souls and that they need to be at peace and in harmony for us to go over to the other side once we are dead. I have heard great things about this book and I find the premise interesting.  China Dolls- Lisa See... another author I've been meaning to read for a while. Will start wit this book and then get to her other works.  Sweet Water- Christina Baker Kline ...my sister read The Orphan Train by the same author and loved it and we decided to read something else by her.  The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August- Claire North ...a man lives his life over and over and over,

Hello.  Back again with a book haul, the second one of the month and once again from Amazon.  I love these group of books, I know I say that about all of my book hauls but I love, love these books. A nice eclectic little mix. Let's see what books have been added to my bookshelves.  Books Bought:  Pashu- Devdutt Pattnaik The Postern of Fate- Agatha Christie The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding- Agatha Christie  The Scatter Here is Too Great- Bilal Tanweer  The Burmese Days- George Orwell  One Part woman- Perumal Murugan  Sula- Toni Morrison  Jazz-  " Strings of Murder- Oscar de Muriel The Skinning Tree- Srikumar Sen  Happy reading guys :)

Book: An Obedient Father Author: Akhil Sharma Pages: 278 Read On: Paperback How Long it Took Me To Read: 2 days Plot Summary: Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Physical Education department of the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his little granddaughter. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man corroded by a guilty secret. When Rajiv Gandhi, the soon-to-be Prime Minister, is murdered, the country is plunged into confusion and Ram, as his department's resident bribe-collector, is trapped in a series of escalating, possibly deadly political betrayals. While he tries to protect himself and his family, his daughter reveals a crime that he had hoped would be buried forever. Ram's struggle to survive, and make amends after a life of deception, thrusts him among gangsters and movie stars, into riots and morgues. Akhil Sharma's characters, whether politicians, children, priests, or ext

Book: Those Pricey Thakur Girls Author: Anuja Chauhan Pages: 400 I read: The paperback I read it in: 2013.. and so, I don't remember how much time it took me :) Plot Summary: In a sprawling bungalow on New Delhi's posh Hailey Road, Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his wife Mamta spend their days watching anxiously over their five beautiful (but troublesome) alphabetically named daughters. Anjini, married but an incorrigible flirt; Binodini, very worried about her children's hissa in the family property; Chandrakanta, who eloped with a foreigner on the eve of her wedding; Eshwari, who is just a little too popular at Modern School, Barakhamba Road; and the Judge's favourite (though fathers shouldn't have favourites): the quietly fiery Debjani, champion of all the stray animals on Hailey Road, who reads the English news on DD and clashes constantly with crusading journalist Dylan Singh Shekhawat, he of shining professional credentials but ta

Book : The Strange Library Author: Haruki Murakami Pages: 77 Read On: Hardback copy. How Long it Took Me To Read: 3 hours (with many breaks) Plot Summary: 'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself imprisoned with only a sheep man, who makes excellent donuts, and a girl, who can talk with her hands, for company. His mother will be worrying why he hasn't returned in time for dinner and the old man seems to have an appetite for eating small boy's brains. How will he escape? General Thoughts: I wanted this book since it first came out last year. An illustrated Murakami is the stuf

This week started on a bleak note. I was down with food poisoning and was in a world of pain. So those two days quite honestly were not really documented. But once I started feeling better this week turned around. This was a happy week, since I had been a little sick, I felt a little self-indulgent and wanted to treat myself to a little something something...quite a few somethings if I am being honest.  So some online and real life shopping happened. Stay tuned for book hauls :)  Let's see what else I got up to this week.  Day 78: A day of being sick often requires positive thinking and positive messages. Thankfully my walls at home are full of happy thoughts and positive reminders.    Day 79: Snacking for a sick girl. A bowl of goodness. Raspberries and blackberries. So delicious. I even bakes a three berry tart (I just might do a recipe post!) So good, I love eating fruits and it's been my goal to include more fresh and seasonal fruit in my diet.   

This tote bag to me is the perfect embodiment of spring, especially here in India. All these yellow and oranges are such Basant colours.  Just makes me happy to see these colours and see the happy bloom print on the bag.  This tote was a birthday present and I am yet to tote her around. She is roomy and sturdy and I think she will fit a ton of stuff.  Also totes and spring just seem like a pre-ordained pairing.

Hello!  Here we are with the first ever book haul of 2015! Wow! How did this even happen?! I last bought books on the 26th of December 2014 and only six books at that. So very unlike me.  I wasn't on a book-buying-ban or anything like that, it was just that with travel, books buying took a backseat. Well, now that I am back home, I jumped right in with my book buying.  I bought these books from Amazon and got great deals on them. I've already read two books out of this bunch already and I am excited to read the rest soon!  So let's get haulin'.  I am so happy with all my books and I am so excited to get to them eventually.  The Strange Library- Haruki Murakami  A love-story for my Sister- Jaishree Misra  Smart- Kim Slater  The French Lieutenant's Woman- John Fowles  An English Boy in New York- T.S. Easton  Three Act Tragedy- Agatha Christie  A Village by the Sea- Anita Desai  Oscar Wilde and T