The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

 Happy Ray Day to everyone who celebrates.  Satyajit Ray is hands down my favourite Filmmaker, Writer and Bengali 😎 There will never be another quite like him.  So every year on his birth anniversary I re-read some of his stories and re-watch some of his incredible films.

 Hello Loves!  And a Subho Ashtami to you.  Today is the most important day of the festival, the day we save our best outfits for.  However today is one HOT day in my corner of the world (41 degree Celsius) and I am hiding from the sun and reading, lazing around and planning dinner.  Spoiler Alert: It's Biryani!  :)  I did all of my Pandal Hopping on Shoshti, in a bid to avoid crowds and traffic and it was the best way to see the beautiful pandals and protimas.  For the rest of Pujo my plans have been quite sedate.  Eat good food.  Hide from the sun.  And of course, READ.  And each some stuff with the family.  First let's talk about the reading.  The Illuminated by Anindita Ghose: This is my current read. I am hanging out with Probashi Bengali  mother and daughter duo for Pujo this year. I recently bought this book, for a pretty good deal, even though I really wanted to hold out and get a physical copy because t...

  Hello October! Hello Durga Pujo!  Hello Festivity!  &  Hello Spooky Season!  I am happy you are back!  :)  October is a little bit of magic.  The festive seasons in India kicks off in all it's glory and Durga Pujo lights up my Bengali heart.  This year, I am hopeful and excited to actually step outside and see some of the pandals and Maa Durga.  I even have a few new clothes all lined up for Pujo.  :)  My reading too is shaped by both Durga Puja and Halloween.  So for the first half of the month and certainly during Pujo, I read some Bengali books and then its time to bring all the thriller and horror reads and going allll out with the Spooks.  I am so excited.  To kickstart my reading this month I've already started reading a creepy horror book.  This one.  The Girls are Never Gone:   The Conjuring  meets  Sadie  when seventeen-year-old podcaster Dare takes an internship in a ...

Hello!  Today I want to share some beautiful things with you guys.  Some recent happy mail that came to me.  I spotted Karubasona on IG and it was love at first sight. Their art was just too cute to pass up. I saw their Tintin in Calcutta series and was smitten and I had to have a little bit of that magic in my life.  So here we are with some absolute beauties I added in my life.  Let's see.. I had to get my favourite lines from my favourite Rabindra Sangeet on either a tote or bookmark.  This was an entirely collaborative effort. I am so happy with how this tote turned out.  We sent a picture from Landour to get the floral pathway and arch and it looks so good.  Plus Tagore's words just make everything good.  Tintin and Snowy .  Like so many others, we grew up with Tintin and his adventures and these stories have had our hearts.  My sister, especially, is a BIG BIG fan of Tintin so we had t...