The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

 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. 

Hello I’ve been missing in action.  I am still here.  May has been low-key brutal. But I’m still here.  Journaling and Planning.  Forever grateful for the grey skies and rains.  Finding solace in books and stories. Anything to escape real life.   I don’t know what happened this month, but I just kept ignoring and forgetting about this space. I didn’t mean to.  I promise. I walked into this month with a lot of joy and hope and then life happened. A whole lot of mess all at once. Ugg.  Life went on pause.  My Mum is seriously unwell. She has Dementia, she’s had multiple strokes. It’s bad, as bad as it can be. It feels unreal and all this month it has felt endless.  And most of my waking hours are spent scared and worried out of my mind.  So I just…hit pause.  I read a lot, binged old horror films, ate mangoes, slept, cried and survived summer. In June things will be better. Things will look up.  I hope. I pray. 🙏🏼 I d...

 Subho Nobo Borsho my Loves! I send you loads of Priti and Subhecha and Bhalobasha. May this year bring you allllll sorts of goodness.  Here’s what the first day of 1432 looked like: Some reading, refreshing my home for the New Year and eating some good food. 

 Another Friday and another batch of Favourite Things.  Back to my laptop and writing after far too long and it feels so good.  Sensitive and not sorry.  A new to me show that I am binging and loving. Reading in bed and feeling cozy. Meem Se Mohobbat finale was just too cute for words. Light and trying to find my way out of darkness. 

 Happy Valentine’s Day my Loves.  These are some of my forever favourites 🎀

 February begins with joy, hope and merriment.

 Boxing Day has been a slow and cozy and fun day ❤ Here are some of my favourite moments from December.  A few  new things, cozy times, home in all her Christmas glory, stationery supplies and a slow and wonderful life.  December has been so good to me 💛 Thank you and More Please.  Very grateful for these gentle days.