The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

  Hello Loves!  We've fallen for the trendy, very in Pouch Journals.  We've made three so far, and by me I mean my sister. She makes them and I decorate them.  First we made the small one, which I'm using as my Hospital Journal to jot down the memories of my 22 day hospital stay.  Then we made the big one that holds my current read and my Book Buddy~ a journal for my honest, unhinged bookish thoughts.  My two precious journal covers.  I love how they've turned out.  A closer look at the stickers.  I've used my Book Journal Pouch everyday since I've acquired it.  Its perfect to hold my reading supplies- like highlighters, page flags and sticky notes and a few pens and pencils.  It's a great way tote around your current reads and your annotation things.  One of my notebooks from my smaller pouch journals.  These are so easy to make, find a tutorial on IG and find supplies from  Amazon  Scooboo  And make yourse...

 I've been away from home, Mumbai for over a year now. I came to my hometown in June 2025 when Maa passed away. Then in October I got my stroke and got paralyzed and any plans of going back home got indefinitely delayed. Now I don't even know when we'll go back. I miss home with a such severe longing..I miss my books, my stationery, my journals and my life.  I miss my books so much. I wish I could somehow I could teleport to Mumbai for an hour and grab some of my books to bring them with me.  I miss my bags. Not like I'm going anywhere but it would be nice to be with my bags.  And I miss little treats now and again. And I miss all to food from home.  I miss my quiet reading and journaling days.  And my miss coffeeshop reading 🎀 Hopefully I get better soon and go back to my ordinary and blissful life 💗  

 Hello, its me, your resident bookworm. I am still here, still around. Still healing. Still recovering from my brain stroke. It's nearly been a year, I'm slowly getting back to normal.  Life has been going on, I've been reading, journaling, moving my out of wack body and trying to manifest a future where I am somewhat normal again. My old life seems so far away sometimes. The life in Mumbai somedays feels like a dream, a fever dream. Hopefully I can find myself back to that old version of myself.  Here is journal eco-system for 2026.  My planner, my journal and my reading journal. I will do a detailed post on my very minimal system soon. I have really simplified my planner stack this year, mostly out go necessity. But I am quite pleased with how things turned out.  A stack of my beloved books. A TBR pile I made for August.  I haven't blogged since June! I meant to but most days I get tired by evening and just want to read and hangout with my Baba and sister...

  Hello! Moved into a new, very roomy pencil bag tonight 😊 While writing is still a bit of a struggle since my stroke, I’ve started writing a little everyday and I’m hoping my hand gets better soon and I can finally get back to writing, journaling and annotating my books. Here’s a look my precious pens 🥰 The tiny pouches are from Choti Si Asha The new one is from an IG store called Veora. It was kindly sent as a freebie by the seller with some booksleeves I ordered (will share those soon). 

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...

 I am so in love with my journal this month!  It’s so adorable!!!  The TN is from The Black Canvas.  The folio is from The Bicyclist Stories. 

 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. 💛

 I love Thursdays. I just do.  Here’s what this Thursday looked like:  A little reading. Snacks.  Coffee. Dusting, Mumbai is soooo dusty and my books and things are coated in this fine layer of dust every morning.  Cute bookmark and pencil. New (from my stash) journal. 

 Things that make me happy 🥳  Stationery always. Time spent with my planner and journals.  Coffee in cute mugs.  Stickers.  Happy mail. Surprise presents.  Mild days. Cooking for people I love.  New books.  Reading before bedtime.