The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

 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: 

 Reading has been kinda off lately.  I am not exactly in a reading slump, but nothing I've read in a long time that made me all kinds of happy. Plus, I think I've been watching more things than reading and I really want to change that and get back to my reading like a maniac avatar.  This weekend I am reading something really good that I am excited about.  This Motherless Land by Nikki May: A story of two cousins and several family secrets and drama. Set in Nigeria and UK in the 80s, I am 25% in so far and really loving it.  Our two main characters, Funke and Liv are both extremely likable and real.  I am so happy to spend my weekend reading this book. And spending some time in the 80s.  A little friend keeping me company as I read in bed. 

  July was a bout of books, rain, comfort, sadness, surviving said sadness and finding Joy.  You were good July.  You brought me books, baarish and coziness.  This is what my July looked like: the best books I read and the moments that I loved well. 

 Hello Loves 🪻🩷🪻 These July days have been a blur of books (mostly good), tea and rains and binging the X Men movies, which I forgot how much I love. I've also been watching some seriously weird (not good) Hindi films from the early aughts.. they might not be the best films but being back in that era makes me feel nostalgic and warm and fuzzy.  Anyhoo..  Here is what my days have looked like:  More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop was read slowly over the week. I re-read the first book before jumping into the sequel. I love this cozy little world and it's gentle and bookish people. I love books about books and this one about a second hand bookshop just makes me happy.  I will say that I preferred and enjoyed the first book a little bit more than the second one. But both these books are an enjoyable ride.  Poirot is perfect for rainy days.  Flowers and Kafka.  Read Earth by John Boyne in pretty much one sitting and really enjoyed it. This is the se...

 The last few days have been just morose. My upstairs neighbours are loud and rude and gross (they throw garbage out their window) and I had to go up and give them a piece of my mind. Ugh. For someone who is painfully non-confrontational, this wasn't fun.  Since then we've lodged a formal complaint with the building and they've been issued a warning. And today was loads quieter.  I am just so sick of them and the urge to move out and run away from my life is so high.  I've been feeling out of sorts, so this morning my sister ordered me some new treats, a set of Camel brush pens and some glitter pens and a set of Nataraj Gel pens. We were getting some groceries and she added these things to the cart.  So I spent my morning drinking coffee, colouring and reading some adorable graphic novels.  Here's what Self-Care looked like today:  Coffee always helps turn a frown around.  A mindful colouring book.  Kindle & iPad full of books.  A re...