The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

Hello Loves!  Here we are at the very end of 2020 and I think most of us are happy to see the end of this year. It's  been one hell of a ride hasn't it? Yet, here we are.  We survived what this year threw at us. If a year ago someone told me that come March the whole world would be forced indoors and sanitisers would be our new best friend and I'd buy so many masks, I'd ask you what you had been smoking?!  Yet we were thrown a curve ball and we survived.  It sucked.  We complained.  Worried.  Cried.  Found comfort in food and books and sleep and TV shows.  MY YEAR IN BOOKS  When it came to books I had a mixed bag of a year.  I honestly thought I'd read so much more, since we were going to be home but the stress and anxiety about this pandemic made reading harder on some days and overall I think read quite less this year.  But honestly I am not going to be hard on myself for my not-so-stellar reading.   It was goo...

 Hello, hello! Today I will be sharing my favourite crime/ mystery/ thriller books of 2020!  This year we (sister and I) read a lot of Thrillers and a fair amount of Horror too. I guess this year was a horror it felt nice and oddly comforting to visit and for a brief period of time be immersed in the world of someone else's horror and worry. It makes for a perfect escape. My sister, especially, read a lot of thrillers and read them in quick succession. So this list is mostly her top reads of 2020.  This a collection of books that range from the classic murder mystery to a few nice little experiments and departures from the classic formats of the genre. All of these will, however, keep you engaged, engrossed and guessing! Let's get into it, then!  1. Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling): Full review can be found here . This was the first cold case for Cormoran Strike and Robin and, boy, was it a complicated one! 40 years ago, a young GP leaves her prac...

Hello Loves!  Today I want to talk about my favourite non-fiction reads of 2020.  If you know me or have followed me for any amount of time, you'd probably have noticed that I am not a big non-fiction reader.  I would much rather read a work of fiction.  But ever now and then I read a bit of non-fiction and find myself very, very taken by it.  Here are my favourite Non-Fiction Reads for 2020. 1. Remnants of a Separation by Aanchal Malhotra: This book should be an essential read for people in our subcontinent. Seriously, everyone should read this book. It's brilliant and fantastic and I loved it so much. It is definitely something I'll re-read over and and over again and one that I will always recommend.   A full review can be found HERE.  2. Good Talk by Mira Jacob: A graphic memoir of what it means to be brown or black in today's America. It's a book about race, racism- both overt and micro-aggressions and identity. A mother's conversations with her...

 Hello Loves!  Hope you've had a Merry Christmas and I hope it involved good food, family, love and laughs and cake..definitely cake.  Mine was a good and slow and happy one.  For my last Blogmas Post I want to share one of my favourite Christmas gifts of this year.  I first chanced upon Aarti's shop: Dairy of a Flower Girl,  sometime this year and I kid you not it was love at first sight. Her art just makes me happy and makes me smile. Its so darling and sweet and full of such joy, I knew I had to get some of it in my life. And come Christmas I did just that. I ordered a set of six prints from her shop and she sent across 4 Christmas prints and a little bookmark.   I am so in love and I know I will go back to her for more!  First we have the special Christmas freebie prints that are so darling.  These bunnies just make my heart happy.  Hello Santa!  My heart is merry as can be.  This bookmark is so perfect.  This li...

Hello Loves!  Today I want to share some of my favourite floral things from 2020, an odd sort of list to make and an odd sort of thing to document, but I do end with getting a lot of floral beauties over the year and I wanted to share some of floral loves.   A floral explosion! Notebooks and Dairies from The Inkbucket. So perfect!  Perfect flower bookmark from Rimjhim Artopia on Instagram.  Books with floral loveliness.  This is The Gopi Diaries by Sudha Murty.  Floral brooches from Vastriyan.  Journal Pages from my Birthday Month.  Floral and Whimsy.