The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

 Hello Loves 🌷📖📝🌻📖📝🌷 Hope you’re having a lovely New Year's Eve. 🌸 Last evening of the year and time to talk about My Year in Books and list my Top 24 reads of the year.  I’ve had a very good reading year.  I read 235 Books and a majority of them were good. There were some duds; but for the most part this was a very successful reading year.  I read loads of Indian Books. Read translations. Read books from all corners of the world.  Read some new to me authors and fell in love.  Tried new genres.  Read some delightful children’s books. Read so many beautiful picture books. Read a fair amount of nonfiction.  Bought a few books but was able to very successfully do a whole book buying ban from May to November.  Annotated some books.  Read physical books.  Read a ton on my iPad. Read very little on my Kindle (she’s getting old).  Found so much comfort and solace in my books.  I am so grateful for my books and for storie...

 Hello Loves!  You know I love and adore Indian Books. I'd say nearly 60% of the books I read in a year are Indian Books. In April and August, I read only Indian books and honestly, I could go a whole year just reading books from the Motherland. I love Indian books. And anyone who thinks Indian books are not that great or only think of those.."popular" books as Indian Fiction..well..do better. Look around and find yourself some great books  from India. Whether written in English or translated from regional languages, we have such brilliant books to offer.  Maybe this list will help you.  So let's jump into my favourite books of the year.  TOP 10 INDIAN BOOKS OF 2024 (FICTION & NON-FICTION) :  1. The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction Vol. I & II: I love detective stories and this beautiful boxset with two volumes full of the best detective stories from the country was a treat. I loved the curation and collection here. We have stories ol...

 Hello Loves!  2024 is nearly over and I read some incredible books from around the world.  Truly, one of the best things about reading is the ability is to read, learn and spend time with people from a different culture than mine and walk a mile or two in their shoes see a whole other side of the world.  So here's my Top 10 Books from around the World. We have books from Argentina,Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, Iran and Palestine.  So let's jump into it.  1. Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh: Set in Nigeria, this is a coming of age story of a young queer boy. We see his life unfold in the changing landscape of his country. Him being outed and the repercussions and pain and healing and finding himself and love in a world were the odds are stacked against him. I loved this book, even the parts that broke my heart. An incredibly well-written and stirring debut.  2. This Motherless Land by Nikki May: Set partially in Nigeria and in par...

 Hello Loves!  Shared the perfect Year End Journaling Spread Idea over on my YouTube channel. Go see. 

 Hello Loves!  Spent all of my Sunday setting up more of my journals and planners for next year.  I am knee deep in stationery joy.  Here's a little look:  This is a Black Canvas insert that I am going to use as my January Journal.  I went allllll out and made it cute as can be.  A close-up.  Also decorated a Common Place Book.  My first one ever and I am curious as how I go about using it.  In other exciting stationery News, my sister surprised me with a Calendar for 2025. Look how cute.  It's from a shop called Stay Noted. 

 Hello Loves.  I've finally started decorating my planners and journals for 2025.  This morning I set up Blog Planner, which is a simple and classic Field's Notes notebook.  Here's a little look:  Planner Setting Up is my favourite thing in the world. ❤

 Hello Loves!  The last week of the year is just to slow down and laze about and start prepping for the New Year.  I've started setting up my planners and organizing my supplies. Little things to get ready for 2025. I've also been watching some comfort films and reading some picture books.  Here are some faves from this week.  Lemon tea every night is a December staple.  Books and Tea.  Stickers and supplies.  Read this incredible spooky book.  Based on real life stories.  This was such good fun.  Mornings back in the hometown.  Blogging with a side of cookies.  Year end journaling, listing off  all my yearly highlights. 

 Boxing Day has been a slow and cozy and fun day ❤ Here are some of my favourite moments from December.  A few  new things, cozy times, home in all her Christmas glory, stationery supplies and a slow and wonderful life.  December has been so good to me 💛 Thank you and More Please.  Very grateful for these gentle days. 

 From my home and heart to you and yours a very Merry Christmas 🎄🌲🎅🌲🤶🌲🎄 Hope you've had a lovely and restful day.  I read some seven Christmas Books, most max cozy.  Ate some snacks.  Watched some Potter films.  Rested and Relaxed.  And felt joy in my heart.  Here's what my day looked like: