The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

Hello!  February is over. Just like that my favourite month of the year has come and gone! :(  Time to wrap-up my reading in the second month of the year.  Truth be told February was quite a dismal reading month for me.  I read very little. Only 6 books! 6 Books!    By my standards I barely read at all! But I am not bumming too hard, it was a month in which I had a lot of other things going on.  I travelled.  I got caught up in my birthday joys. I watched movies.  I did a ton of other things and my life was not centred around reading like it normally is and for a change it was alright.  But I did read a handful of books and now it's time to talk about them.  Books Read in February 2018.   1. Thicker Than Blood by Munmun Ghosh: A book I read via Kindle Unlimited. A book I had sitting on my Kindle and I started reading it early one morning and read in one sitting. It's premise is prett...

Hello, hello! So, on our second day in Jaipur, we got off to a bit of a late start. My sister had a ton of work to get through and she was busy trying to finish everything, so that she wouldn't have to work for the rest of her vacation. We had a late brunch in our hotel room and then left at around 4:30 PM. Our hotel's courtyard was totally deserted and we couldn't resist but take some gorgeous pictures of the property! Alsisar Haveli has a series of beautiful courtyards, which I find really charming. This is the one that led to our room and every morning the staff filled that marble urn with fresh flowers.  This is the central courtyard of the haveli. As you can see, it is beautifully maintained. Towards the right is the swimming pool and on the left is the restaurant.  This is the central portion of the courtyard. It houses the offices of the owners of the property and has a little seating area outside.  Here's the view of t...

Hello!  I spent 5 days in Jaipur this past week and I am so glad I to go to a city that has been on my 'must visit' list for absolute ages.  We, my sister and I, had been planning a Jaipur trip since the beginning of the year. We booked our tickets and even booked our hotel after doing some research. We knew we wanted to live in a haveli/heritage property because when in Rajasthan why not live a historical setting if one can manage it? Of course, there are hotels for every budget and every persuasion. For us, being people who like being cozy and ones who will be spending a fair amount of time indoors and spending our evenings in, we wanted to live in a nice place.  We flew in on a super-duper stupidly early morning flight. We took off at 6:00 am and landed in Jaipur at 7:30 ish and Uber-ed to our hotel/haveli- Alsisar Haveli.   First and foremost, say hello to the beautiful Stella!  The resident puppy at Alsisar. She is a gorgeous li...

Hello from beautiful Jaipur.  This city has been on my travel wish-list for ages! And I am so beyond grateful to finally be in this time capsule of a city.  :) Palaces, forts and havelis.  So much history and culture and art in one place.  This is just a quick post to share some snippets of my travels so far.  Detailed Travel Diaries will follow soon, once I am back home.  TBH, this has so far been a mixed bag of a holiday.  It's been good largely but not great.  The place I am staying at is beautiful but the service is shit and the food is the worst!  UGH!  If the haveli wasn't as beautiful as it were we would have moved out. The food is seriously so bad!  :( OK I am off to read for a bit now and plan my day tomorrow!  Will be back with more from my Jaipur adventures. 

My daily journal full of kooky cats and of course a pastel dreamy shade of yellow!  Hello!  For some reason, rather unknown to me, I've decided that my colour for 2018 is yellow. It has always been a colour that I find myself being drawn to. Bright, bold and happy. How can yellow with it's cheery vibes not make you happy?  And since being slightly obsessed with yellow I find myself being flooded with yellow. Clothes.  Books.  Pom-Poms.  Journals.  Pom-Poms on my bag. The tote is from iTokri and the pom-poms are from another bag of mine.  Yellow with red applique and mirror work. Kurta from Okhai. Buddhist inscription pendant from Darjeeling. A yellow Llama and a yellow tassel on a pouch. Fields of mustard. My calendar for 2018 from Bhuli Arts.  My current read!

The folks at Karadi Tales, a children's publishing house based in Chennai sent me these books in the mail to read and review.  My first imprecision was being completely blown away by the art in these pages!  Every single page in these books is beautiful.  Art and illustration and colour.  These books are a serious visual treat.  I read both these books the very day I got them!  In one sitting, one after the other.  It made me so happy. I can only imagine how much kids will love it!  Plot Summary :  What Little Fish wants to do more than anything else in the world is fly. Not discouraged by those around her, she flaps her tiny fins and practises jumping. But can Little Fish ever expect to take flight? Age Group:  4 – 6  Author:  Lavanya Karthik  Illustrator : Satwik Gade, Ashwathy P.S.  Pages : 36 Read On:  Hardcover Review: This was such a delightful book with a ...

Book: Prankenstein  The gorgeous illusions in the book were delightful!  Book: Prankenstein Edited By: Ruskin Bond and Jerry Pinto Illustrations: Lavanya Naidu Pages: 121 Publisher: Talking Cub Read On: Hardback Edition How Long it Took Me To Read: 3 hours Plot Summary: I s your school a hotspot for jokes? Do your family members regularly fall victim to pranks? Do ghosts and spooks get you into trouble? Find every kind of funny, crazy, impossible mischief in this book. Here you will find the girl who turned into a sloth just for her mother, the horse who went to the library and ate up some classics, the substitute teacher who saw dead people, the play where everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and many more amazing tales of pranks and troublemaking! Selected by Ruskin Bond and Jerry Pinto, these stories have been written by some of the best children’s writers of the country, including Sukumar Ray, R.K. Narayan, Ranjit Lal, Sub...