The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

 Hello October 🌾🍁🪷🍁🌾 Dugga Dugga ❤️ Started my month with some pandal hopping and praying to Maa Durga for better days and joy and hope.  Here is what today looked like: many pretty protimas and pandals. Feeling a little festive.  Pujo has been a little quiet this year because it’s hard to imagine Pujo without Maa. We’ve stayed home all these days and only ventured out today.  Felt good to be out and about in the world and go see Maa Durga and her kids.  Hoping and praying that the rest of the month is just as nice. 

 Hey there! It’s been a while. I took a month off from blogging. Honestly, last month wasn’t the best for me. I didn’t feel like myself and found myself feeling lost and in a limbo. I read only 3 books and didn’t even touch my planner. I am hoping September is kinder and gentler and I can find my way back  I hope to read more. Blog more often. Journal. And be more present in my life.  Be Good September 🪴

 July is here. After June, which felt like a punch to my gut and heart.  I am hoping July leads to more healing ❤️‍🩹 and baby steps back to normality. My Mum passed away on 3rd June and I flew to the hometown and say goodbye to Maa and perform her last rites.  Life has felt impossible and hard and every day feels…off.  It’s been a  long month.  My heart feels wrecked and my life will never be the same again.  I am hoping this month leads to some kind of normality.  I disappeared from the blog because I just didn’t feel like doing much. I barely read. Didn’t touch my journals. Just watched films and spent time with my sister and dad.  This month I am hoping to blog more.  Read more.  Cry a little less. 

 Welcome June 🌧️☔️🌧️☔️⛈️☔️⛈️☔️ Come in. Get comfortable and be Kind. Started my month with a side of journals, planners and supplies. Started a new book. Made some lists. Did a bedding refresh.  Felt hopeful about this new month. The sixth month of the year already! Where does time go!?!  I hope this month is good for you and me 🙂‍↔️

 Hello May! May you bring Flowers and Mangoes and Good Books. May you bring Peace and Calm.  Here’s how I began this Month:  Started two incredible books. Heart Lamp is excellent and I am only three stories in!  Manohar Malgonkar’s historical books are an favourite of mine and this is the third book of his I’m picking up, so my hopes are high.  Hoping the rest of May is just  as stellar. 💛

 Hello April. Hello Nobo Borsho. Hello reading Bengali Books all month. Here’s what my first day of the month looked like… Made a TBR.  Read a little.  Drank coffee out of a spooky mug. Felt happy.  All good things. 

 Hello March!  Be Kind. Be Good. Be Gentle. Maa ❤️ A little reading. Some citrus.  Maa’s birthday. Feeling a little under the weather. 

 Hello February 🪻🌸🪻🍀🌸🍀🪻🌸🪻 Hello my favourite month ever is here! I hope you are kind and happy and gentle and good February! I no longer feel super excited about my birthday but something about stepping into this month makes me happy. I hope this month I can do the things that make me happy and have a good birthday. Last February was the worst! I had the worst birthday month ever and I hope this time around I am shown a kinder time. I had a pretty good day.  Had coffee in a new mug. Watched a few films. Cleaned my home (in prep for Saraswati Puja).  And got some happy mail as well.  Here’s a look at today.  New book to read this month. &  A tiny purse. Very Chanel ✨inspired ✨.  I  am going to use her to store my charging cables.  A new friend. I am going to call her Baegoonie. In honour of Beguni (a brinjal fry from Bengali cuisine).  Love this little mug. Book Mail ✉️  Three books I am so excited to read soon!  I ...

 Hello November!  Hello Fall!  Hello Gentler Days and Night 🪔🌟🍁🌟🪔 Love that this month has begun on a festive note 🪔 and I hope and pray that the rest of the month is just as joyful 🌟🪔🌟