The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

Book: Turtles All The Way Down Author: John Green Pages: 336 Read On: Hardback edition Publisher: Penguin How Long it Took Me To Read : 3 days Plot Summary:   It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.In his long-awaited return,   General Thoughts: A John Green book after ages! Like everyone else I was very excited to read something from Green. Plus this book had a slight mystery element attached to it and mental health and struggles with mental illness are an important part of the narrative. My excitement was super high to delve into this book. Thank-you, Penguin for sending this book my way. The book was sent to me for review but my thoughts and opinions are entire...

Hello!  It's time to share yet another haul of books, this time for the books that I've added to my bookshelves in the month of October.  I will say, my book buying has become a whole lot tamer in 2017. It's not really been a conscious decision, just life taking it's own course. I guess after years and years of buying over 10 book minimum a month, I had a slow down coming.  I once bought over 30 books in one month way back in 2014..good times. Good times! But I just no longer feel the need to buy so many books in one go. My personal library is exactly how I need for it to be. A good mix of classics, modern classics and some contemporary books thrown in as well. Plus my Kindle is full of books I borrow from Kindle Unlimited and full of thrillers that I buy. Do you find your book buying change from one year to the next? 📚📚📚 Now coming to October!  I bought 3 books and 2 books were kindly sent to me by the folks over at Penguin India for re...

July was an OK reading month for me. I read a fair amount of books and even some good books. But I didn't fall madly in love with any book I read. But I like that I read a mixed bag of books. There is a classic, some young adult, Indian writing, ghost stories, steamy romances and several re-reads. So in that sense it was a pretty good month.  I finally read Northanger Abbey and it was amazing! Simply brilliant. Loved it. If you haven't read it, read it now! Reading it began my reading all six Austen novels this year. Next on the list is Sense and Sensibility..which I intend to read in August..maybe.  I also enjoyed Jacob's Hill (review coming soon), After Dark (also to-be reviewed shortly) and Morality for Beautiful Girls.  Currently I am re-re-reading the first Potter book just in time for Harry Potter's birthday. A good way as any to end the reading for the month.  For next month's reading I might t...

Book: Looking for Alaska Author: John Green Pages: 231 How Long it Took Me To Read: 3-4 days. Plot Summary: The book takes off when Miles Halter decided to leave his home in Florida and transfer to a boarding school called Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama in hopes of making a change in his life. Miles is a loner, he doesn’t have a single friend in his present school and his main interest in life is to find out and memorise the last words of famous people. Miles hopes that moving to Culver Creek Academy will make his high school experience a better-rounded one. At Culver Creek, Miles meets and befriends an odd-ball group of people. There is Chip Martin aka The  Captain, his roommate and closest friend who loves reading and memorising world capitals. He is a scholarship kid who has a huge chip on his shoulder. There is also Takami, who remains a secondary character at best. Then there is Alaska young, a cigarette smoking, cigarette selling, st...

I am a resolution maker/taker. And once I put it down in writing I am pretty good at keeping said resolutions.  At least I try my level best to keep my resolutions. I also make weekend goals and week goals- about things I need to get done and things I want to try and do. Making a list keeps me on track. In the beginning of the year with the zeal of the new year and a chance of starting something new upon me, I wanted to make some reading related resolutions. With half the year nearly over (where does time fly?) I thought its a good time as any to revisit my Reading Resolutions and see how I am doing. 1. Read more classics. /// I pretty much have this on my list every single year. And I am really bad I keeping it. Reading classics is amazing. But it takes some time. And effort. Reading contemporary books makes switching to classics take some time. This year I am happy to report things are a little better. I've read 2 classics already. I also want to read different kinds of classi...

  Book: Paper Town Author: John Green Pages: 305 pages How Long it took me to Read: 1-2 days.  Plot Summary: Quentin Jacobson has been in love with his next door nieghbour Margo Roth Spiegleman pretty much his own life. They have grown up next to each other and used to be close friends when they were kids, but an incident makes them drift apart. Now close to graduating high school the former friends live in different worlds. Quentin is set to attend college in a few months and Margo is the popular girl with a long time boyfriend. Things come to head when one night, dressed as a ninja Margo crawls in Quentin's bedroom and asks him to come along for a night of adventure and vengeance.  After the night of getting even is over, Q thinks he is about to rekindle his friendship with Margo, only to find out that Margo has gone missing...she has run away from home and has left behind clues. Q is determined to find her and in the process finds out more about the g...