The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

Hello!  How are we doing today?  I hope you are safe and sane and keeping yourself happy inspite of this lockdown and the gloom and doom.  Today I want to do what I do best..Talk about BOOKS!  So without much prelude let's just jump into some book recommendations shall we?  Here are 21 incredible books you could read during this lockdown.  I have books from multiple genres and I think there is a little something for everyone on this list. 1. Feluda Vol. I and II by Satyajit Ray: Brilliant short stories featuring a sleuth who solves crimes with his trusty companions Topshe and Jatayu by his side. These stories are comforting, fun, action filled and full of Ray's genius. Great for kids and honestly great for you too. These two volumes on their own are perfect to keep you occupied for 21 days and then some. Also anything else by Ray is a wonderful idea. His short stories and his sci-fi and ghost stories are some of my favourites....

Hello!  How are you?  Really, how are you?  We find ourselves in this strange time, this period of uncertainty and fear and I know its hard on all us. Some more than others. But all of us are feeling this wave of anxiety and stress and that is totally normal. I know I've been feeling pretty numb these past few days.  21 days in a long time.  A long time to be home and doing everything by ourselves.  Some of us have never been in for so long. EVER.  And some of us find ourselves doing home chores and cooking for the first time ever...I see people freaking out on my FB and basically nearly dying from ghar ka kaam.  I feel ya!  So I thought, I'd share some tips and trick to make these 21 days a little bit more bearable.  I wanted to share some tips on chores and doing your own household work, I don't know if I've ever talked about it in detail but for nearly 2 years, 2016-2018, my sister and I were without a domestic...

Hello, hello! I hope all of you are doing well and staying home as much as possible. Tomorrow, March 22nd, has been declared as ' Janta Curfew' (People's Curfew) by our Prime Minister, where we've been urged to stay home between 7 am to 9 pm. I know a lot of us are feeling stir-crazy already, so, I thought I'd share some web series and movies that you can watch/ binge on tomorrow to make the self-imposed curfew easier. Asur: Voot Select's new web series is a contest of wits and will between a deadly serial killer and two CBI Forensic Officers. This mysterious serial killer is on a spree and, for some reason, he is taunting two of CBI's top forensic officers. The series is a mix of mythology and science and is quite interesting. We're still in the process of watching it and are very hooked! Little Fires Everywhere: If you've read the book or not, this is a series that explores complex family dynamics, different styles of mothering and just...

Hello!  I hope all of you are doing fine and are safe and taking every precaution in the world to protect yourself from this blasted Corona Virus.  Don't Touch Your Face...which is generally such good advice if you want to keep pimples and acne at bay. Wash your hands.  And most importantly stay in if you feel poorly.  Also, stay in, just in case.  If you can avoid stepping out, just don't. Hunker down. Why take the risk?  Now I know it's easier for some of us (Hello fellow Introverts!) to stay in and ride this shit out as compared to those who thrive on being social and being out and feel stir crazy being stuck at home.  I get it...well..I can empathise, so these are 10 things you can do if you have to be stuck at home.  I promise the staying in lifestyle is so fun, a different kind of fun than one you are perhaps used to but still FUN!  So many of us LOVE it.  Seriously, give a shot.  Who knows mayb...