The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

 April is over and here is what this month looked like:  Planners.  Reading a fair number of Bengali books for All Bengali Books in April.  Reading a lot of thrillers.  Watching some amazing films: Laapaata Ladies and Late Night with the Devil were my favourites.  Ate some good food.  Slept my blues away.  Let’s see some moments from April. Golden Hour in Summer is just magical.  I love how the light hits my bedroom wall.  Shadow and light.  Cozy Reading 📚📖📚 April Planner Pages.  April wasn’t the best. In fact, it low-key sucked and I am so happy to see it leave.  There was a lot of stress, anxious spirals and general summer blues. The insane heatwave didn’t help matters.  But in all this sadness there were some good books, Nobo Borsho joys, journaling, some happy mail, cold drinks and amazing films to make me happy.

 I've had the worst week. I have these super noisy upstairs neighbours and I've been so stressed and upset because they just won't stop banging and  clanging.  So my mood has been in the gutter.  And nothing I was reading was sticking or making me happy.  So I turned to some beautiful Picture Books to soothe myself and it worked like a charm.  Here are some beautiful books I've read lately 🌞 Five incredible and beautiful books that took my mind off my problems and made me so happy.  Now some beautiful pages from said books:  Heart warming stories and gorgeous art does wonders for my weary heart and mind. 

  A bout of good books.  Good food. Aam Ras is the best 🥭  Amazing films.  Rest.  Some crying.  A whole lot of heat.  Overall a good-ish weekend. 

  Hello, hello, We just finished watching Laapataa Ladies on Netflix and we loved it so, so much that we simply had to get on here and recommend it to all of you!  So, without further ado, let's get into our top 5 reasons for watching this absolutely smashing movie: 1. The writing! OMG, the writing! It is funny, insightful, wise and so pitch perfect! I haven't watched an Indian movie in the past 5-6 years where the writing made me actually clap more than once! So, so good!  2. The story. A simple story of two brides getting lost because of being inside navel-length ghunghats. Phool, married to Deepak, sleeps on the train and, Deepak mistakenly takes Pushpa/ Jaya to get off with him at his station because both women are dressed in similar bridal sarees with a huge ghunghat. Chaos ensues! The story is about how both the women find their way back home and to themselves.  3. The found family in this movie so absolutely adorable! The people that Phool (Deepak's wife) find...

 This week we celebrated World Book Day.  TBH, isn't every day World Book Day in a bookworms life?  In my corner of the world, every day is spent being grateful for the wonder and gift that are books. ❤  An epitaph from a book I read earlier this week.  Books always make me so happy.  Bookshops 🩷  These shelves from Crosswords at Kemps Corner.  Some new books I've added to my shelves this week.  Two scary books I've read recently and really enjoyed.  Moved my books around and reorganized them. This stack is mostly new books I hope to read this year.  Books and Sunflowers🌻 

 A little glimpse into what my day looked like today⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚　˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆  Coffee.  New Book.  Cozies ♡♡♡  A large cup of cold  coffee. ʕ •́؈•̀)  Quiet reading time.  Here is my current read.  A collection of horror short stories. The Devil's Teacup and Other Stories by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay is so far spooky and good fun.  I am glad I could include some horror in my All Bengali Books in April.  I am two stories in and really enjoying my time with these stories. 

  Book: The Gathering  Author: C.J. Tudor  Pages: 411 Read on: Kindle  Read in: ~4 hours  Plot Summary:  WELCOME TO DEADHART. ALASKA. POPULATION 673.  LIVING.  In a small Alaskan town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and the blood drained from his body.  The brutality of the murder of chillingly echoes a killing from twenty-five years ago. Out-of-state detective Barbara Atkins is brought in to assist the sheriff, Jensen Tucker, who investigated the original case.  However, the inhabitants of Deadhart believe they know who is responsible: one of the nearby vampyr colony who live in an old mining settlement deep in the mountains.  Barbara is under pressure to authorize a cull of the entire colony.  But the evidence doesn’t stack up, people are lying, and the more Barbara and Tucker delve into Deadhart’s history, the darker the secrets they uncover.  As the snow thickens and the nights grow longer, another teenager ...

  It's getting hot and humid and horrid.  And  I am trying to hide from the world and sun and keep cool.  The sunsets have been good though.  And books are keeping me happy.  As are films and shows.  Currently rewatching Monk and loving it.  Hope you are staying cool and finding joy. 

 Subho Nobo Borsho my Loves.  Today is Poila Boishak, aka Bengali New Year.  And it was a quiet day of celebrating.  It was too hot to wear something fancy, but we are supposed to wear something new so I wore a new tee-shirt.  Started a new book.  And ate a ton of fruits to cool down.  I don't know about you but I cannot with this heat 🔥 Here's what my day looked like today..  Cozy Frog 🐸 Babies.  Current Read 🕵‍♀️🕵🕵‍♀️🕵 Ray on New Years 🥰 Warm Wishes from her and me.  New tee 😍  Dobby forever 🥰 Blooms 🌺