The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

 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. 

 After a long time, today has been good.  Today was perfectly rainy, breezy and cozy.  Colours and glitter and joy.  Books at the moment.  Can't wait to read more from the Morisaki world. I could do with some comfort and bookshop vibes.  Poirot is always a good idea.  Pages in my gratitude journal.  Made some rava dosas (they look funny but taste good) and tomato chutney.  Today was ordinary and mundane and just what I needed. 

 Hello Loves!  Hello from a hot and humid Friday evening here in Mumbai. I am for one praying and hoping for Rain. I hope this weekend we see at least a sprinkling of some monsoon showers.  Anyhoo, here are some things I loved best this week. Of course, the Election Results are my absolute favourite thing ever. Such a wave of hope and such a dopamine hit ❤  Here are some lesser faves for the week:  Clouds teasing us but not delivering on their promise.  I love grey skies and can't wait for some seriously cozy rainy days 🌧 Things I've Watched:  Under Paris on Netflix is a shark attack film with a dose of climate change. Different and entertaining. I love me some shark films and this was good fun.  Summer means re-watching some of my favourite Agatha Christie adaptations. These are streaming on Sony Liv and I cannot recommend them enough.  Reading Faves:  Read Mayadevi's London Yatra by Bulbul Sharma this week and thoroughly enjoyed it. I...

  Pretty Much my Mantra in Life.  Read More.  & Worry Less. 

Hello Loves!  Today was such a joy.  Went to a coffee shop. Read a book.  People watched.  Met an old and very dear friend of mine and talked and talked and caught up.  :)  Simple and lovely.  Perfect. In honour of that..here are some Glimmers from my Life.    A candle at the end of the night.  Peach.  An old friend.  The Moon in all her glory.  The gooiest girls.  Christmas tree and lights.  Old books from the vault.  Books I've had for absolute years. 

 Hello Loves!  September comes to an end.  It was a month of many unusual reading sojourns for me.  For one I read some Russian Literature.  Then for one week straight, I read a romance novel every night.  I also didn't read a single book from India this month. Not one. And if you know me at all, you know that is not common around these parts. At all. I don't even have a specific reason for doing so, it's just something that happened.  I also didn't buy a single book.  I read a book on my iPad after years and was reminded of how much I love it.  I read 19 books in total and had a very happy reading month.  So let's just jump into it.  Here is everything I read in September and my thoughts and little reviews.  BOOKS OF SEPTEMBER 2022:  1. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky: I started my month with a classic. My first proper foray into Russian Lit. My first full length novel from a Russian master. I have, so far in life only ev...

 Hello Loves!  How was the weekend for you?  In my corner of the world it was a long weekend. It was Visarjan on Friday and that meant we had a three day weekend.  It's always sad to see Ganpu leave.  We got some laddoos fro Ganpu before he left.  :)  My main weekend read was Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie.  It was a re-read but one I came back to after a while, so a lot of the little details I had sorta forgotten. And it's been such a thundering and midly rainy weekend that it felt nice to find comfort in a Christie mystery.  The rest of my weekend was spend chilling out.  Watching quite a few funny films..older ones. I have found a lot of comfort in watching films I watched a decade or so ago.  Set up my planner pages for the next three weeks. I am mostly using Washi Tapes to do up my pages because I really missed having my stash when I was away from home. Plus, I do want to use up some of my older tapes.  I am trying to mak...

 Hello Loves!  It's been forever since I did one of this posts and documented my weekend reading on the blog.  Let's fix that shall we?  I've been in such a mood to re-read lately, maybe it has something to do with being reunited with my books after nearly two years. I am looking at my shelves and picking old loves to spend time with. I am loving it.  :)  This is the lot I am hoping to read these next few days.  Five Go To Smuggler's Top by Enid Blyton: It's been two years since I read any Famous Five. So I am more than ready to jump back into this world. I remember pretty much nothing about this book, not surprising since I read this when I was ten. So this will feel brand new. I am all set to get cozy and read this adventure filled caper and hang out with some old faves.  Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie: This is also a re-read. My Dad is finally watching all the Agatha Christie shows (its available on Sony Liv) and I had to pick up a book to k...

December is one of my favourite months.  There is such joy and calm in these days few days of the year.  This December has been a good one.  Full of things I love and adore.  Cold nights.  Candlelight.  Books.  Blogging. Cake.  Christmas in the air.  I couldn't be happier or more grateful.  :)  Here are some snippets of my December clicked randomly on my 'big' camera. I miss getting my Canon camera out to take pictures of my days and adventures. I am hoping to use it more in 2022.    A typical night in our world.  Candle lit. And something to watch on the laptop. I think this was my sister watching Grey's Anatomy.  Glow.  A little Christmas book haul, because of course I bought some books for cheer and good vibes.  :)  Book haul coming super duper soon.  :)  I am so excited to read this mammoth book soon.  Rings and lights.  These rings from both from Quirksmith.  A happy a...