The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

 Hello my loves!  Happy Day of Love to you and yours.  Whether you love Valentine's Day or not, it's a good excuse as any to indulge in some reading and finding something that works for you.  Here are some book recommendations for Valentine's Day...Books to read if you love Love or books to read if you want a good crying session.  There's something for everyone.  1. Parineeta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay: This one is a family favourite. This was my Thamma's favourite story in the whole wide world. Because this story was sorta like her love story with my grandfather. She found a lot of similarities between her love story and that of Lalita and Shekhar. A timeless, simple and enduring story about childhood sweethearts, misunderstandings and love.  2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows: Juliet- a budding writer/ journalist receives a letter from a pig farmer called Dawsey from the island of Guernsey...

Hello, hello, Another weekend and another 'what to watch' post on this blog :)  Today's recommendations are a nice mixed bag of true crime, horror and romance! So, let's get into it, shall we?  Nobody Wants This is a rom-com that is an instant throwback to the mid-2000s! Not only because it stars millennial heartthrobs Adam Brody and Kristen Bell but also it is, basically, a classic rom-com. Has several laugh out loud moments and all the formulaic, trope-heavy things that defined the rom-coms in the early to mid-2000s.  Messed up, commitment-averse heroine- check.  Stable, nice-boy hero- check.  He falls first- check.  She falls harder- check.   And, like I said, lots of LOL-worthy moments, mostly stemming from the hero's extremely Jewish family and the heroine's messy-chaotic family.  This is not a perfect show but it is one of the better rom-coms one has seen in a while. Plus it has six very short episodes which I like. I am so over 50 minute lo...

 Hello, hello, If you enjoy MM/ gay romances, then I have some fun recommendations for you.  This is a series of 5 books by Eden Finley and Saxon James and all of them are available for free as part of your Kindle Unlimited subscription.  These are all books that are: Low Angst  Sweet  Medium spicy/ steamy  Sort of funny with some laugh out loud moments  HEAs  So, if you want to read something fun and light within the broader sports romance sub-genre, then these are good books to pick up.  Quick mini reviews:  Book 1: Power Plays and Straight As  Plot Summary:  “Look out for Zach and don’t hit on him.” My brother’s request sounds easy enough. Keep an eye out for his best friend on campus and keep my hands to myself. Easy. Even if Zach is a quintessential nerd, who I’ve always thought was cute, I don’t have the time to think with my … stick. There’s only one stick I should be focused on this year, and that’s my hockey stick. My ...

 Hey all, If you enjoy romance, then I have some really good and fun recommendations for you!  Let's get into it!  This is a series of 5 books with a mix of tropes such as: Small town setting  Cowboys  Feisty female protagonists  Sort of sports backdrop (2 of male protagonists are professional bull riders and one is a professional ice hockey player)  Close family, found family  A mix of humour and heart  Some serious issues (mental health, infertility etc.)  Quite spicy  Quick summaries and mini reviews for each of these books:  Book 1: Flawless  Plot Summary:  I’m the face of professional bull riding—the golden boy. Or at least I was, until it all blew up in my face. Now my agent says I have to clean up my image, so I’m stuck with his ball-busting daughter for the rest of the season as my “full-time supervision.” But I don’t need a goddamn babysitter, especially one with skin-tight jeans, a sexy smirk, and a mouth sh...

Hello, hello, And just like that the second week of the year draws to a close and it's FRIDAY!  So, if you are planning on just chilling out this weekend, may we recommend a duo of romance books to get you all cozy and settled in? Let's get into it, then! Both these books are part of a series (the Windy City series) by Liz Tomforde. These are sports romances and if you haven't read any sports romance before (like I hadn't either), then let me tell you that it is not something difficult to read. As in, the books don't really get technical about the sport in question.  So, it is actually pretty accessible and easy-to-read and get into the world of professional athletes and their love lives. :)  Mile High  Plot Summary:  ZANDERS Chicago hockey isn't complete without me - everyone's favourite player to hate. I know my role, and I play it well. In fact, I thoroughly enjoy spending the majority of my game time in the penalty box before leaving the arena with a new...

 Hello, hello, We're officially in the last week of 2023! How did this happen so quickly? The same question we ask ourselves as yet another year winds down! Time, it seems, flies irrespective of whether we are having fun or not. It passes. And that is both a consolation and a tragedy.  Anyway, didn't mean to wax poetic about time but maybe this is what happens when you read too much romance? :)  So, without much ado, let's get into our favourite spicy romance reads of the year. And, bonus, most of these can be read free via Kindle Unlimited.  The Royal Elites Series by Rina Kent  This is a series of 7 books based in a posh private school in the UK. Hot rich kids doing hot rich kids stuff but somehow each of these books has a soul. They are all spicy but not taboo and fun. Perfect to binge read if you are having a slow week! :)  The Legacy of Gods Series by Rina Kent  Rina Kent has her own multiverse of madness and two of her series meet in this third (...

Book: Juniper Bean Resorts to Murder  Author: Gracie Ruth Mitchell  Pages: 376 Read on: Kindle  Read in: ~4 hours  Plot Summary:  Juniper Bean has big plans for her writing career. Swoony kisses, sigh-inducing happily ever afters—she’s going to write them all. There’s just one problem: she can’t seem to stop killing off her main characters. After accepting that a genre change is in order, Juniper sets out to do some research. What’s the best way to carry a dead body? How exactly does one pick a lock? Juniper is going to find out—with the unwilling help of her new roommate, Aiden. But Juniper’s plans go haywire when she stumbles across an actual, real-life dead body—and before she knows it, she and Aiden are thrust into the middle of a murder mystery that seems suspiciously tied to Juniper’s past. Who killed the girl in the woods? Can Juniper ever get the hang of mystery writing? And, perhaps the biggest question of all: Why the heck does Aiden look so good in a ...