The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

 Why does September feel like the year is nearly over already?  Like life ought to slow down and amble towards end of year festivity?  September always reminds me of dhol and music and lights all over my city.  The time for Ganesh Chaturthi and festive season officially arriving here in India.  Ganpu is here today. And all morning I've heard music, dhol and merriment and chants.  The light looks festive too. Brighter and warmer somehow.  :)  I hope you are having a lovely day.  And I hope these ten days are happy and wonderful for everyone celebrating.  I am so happy to see Mumbai come out and celebrate.  Our little celebration at home this morning.  🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔 I am so desperately manifesting some remotely autumn like weather. Sadly, it's been so dry and hot and just not remotely cozy here and it's driving me insane.  Alas, I look at everyone else, in the West, enjoying the beginnings of cozy days and slipping into f...

Hello!  Today I want to share a super cute haul of pins. I got these delightful pins a while back...March? April, maybe?  Well, the point is I got them and I've been using them but I haven't shared them on the blog and these are too cute to not be shared on here. So here we go!  I got these gorgeous wooden pins from Say it With a Pin , this was my second time ordering from them and I love, love, love everything I got.  These are so well made. Such a good size. The art is fantastic and made in collaboration with artists.  Most of the pins I got, for instance have been designed by Pranita Kocharekar, whose art style I immensely enjoy.  Journal Your Anxiety.  This might as well be my mantra in life.  Journal my anxiety away is one of my sure fire methods to work through the maze of my anxiety and make sense of the chaotic thoughts running through my head. So this pin spoke to me at all levels.  Hello ...

1. Alta coloured feet on a tote bag.  So in love with this beauty.  This one is from Aham Bhumika.  2. Sloths in all shapes and forms.  A party animal sloth is the cutest little thing!  :)  3. Sugarcane juice as the days get hot.  4. An inspirational message on my laptop case.  This one is from Chumbak.  5. My current read/// Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup.  This book has been on my TBR for a while now. I have heard only excellent things about it and that excites and worries me, books with so much hype around them worries me so much. I just finished reading an over hyped book- Daisy Jones and The Six and hated it. So I am desperate for a good read. And I am hoping this book doesn't disappoint. I am only a little bit in and I love it so far in. It's lyrical, beautiful and the world in which it is set is wonderful. I am hoping to read this over the weekend.  Have a great ...

Hello!  My first batch of Friday Favourites for the year.  Let's get started.. 1. Sloths forever! In any shape and form, I love all things form.  :)  2. A favourite cushion of mine. The cover is from Chumbak.  Bloom and Grow.  3. Flopsie, a new furry friend from Miniso.  4. Mellow golden sunsets.  5. Gorgeous flowers.  Have a great weekend ahead folks.  I hope to hunker down and get started on a new book and read my weekend away. 

    Greetings and salutations!  I wanted to quickly share the set-up of my (this is Debs- Pooja's sister) teeny-tiny Passport sized Traveler's Notebook from Ali Express.  Ali Express also has some quality handmade leather, faux leather and fabric traveler's notebooks for those of you who are interested.  This burgundy passport sized TN is from the IPBEN Store on Ali Express.  I used the passport sized TNs to capture my day-to-day highlights in a bullet-journal form. I also use a monthly calendar to capture the one thing in my day that I am grateful for, so, it also sort of a gratitude journal.  Here is a nice shot of the TN with all its different colour tones! Isn't it pretty?!  A quick peek at my zipper wallet insert, which has some of my most-loved, most-used stickers. This insert is from the Traveler's Company/ Midori and I find it super useful to carry around washi samples and sticker flakes....

Hello!  This has been a good quiet Monday in my world.  A little Rain.  Breeze blowing my curtains into fun shapes.  Books.  Bookmarks.  And an afternoon nap too.  Not too shabby for a Monday.  :)  My book journal looking fine!  :)  A cup of coffee in a Cat mug.  My sister's new pin is super sassy.  She is in love.  Starting the Week with Pink is always good idea.  I love how soothing this kurta is.  :)  Hope you've had a good start to the week.  Some Details///  Book Mark from Wish  Coffee Mug from Amazon  Book Journal from Rifle Paper Co. Kurta from Byloom  Pin from Ali Express. 

Hello!  Hope your Sunday is going according to plan!  Mine has been a good mix of action and inaction.  My sister is back home after a couple of days away on work, so we've been catching up and trying to rest today.  Currently, we are both sitting cozy with our respective reads.  Since it's Sunday I figured I might as well share some of my stationery favourites from recent times.  These are all mostly things my sister has been loving lately.  So let's jump into shall we?  This gorgeous dual toned traveller's notebook is from The Black Canvas , who make some amazing traveller's notebooks and are are one of the few people doing so in India. So if you are in the market for a traveller's notebook and don't want to order one from abroad this is a good place to look into.  I love the colours of this dori. They gel so well together and not to mention mint and coral are some of my favourite colours. This is in an A6 s...

Hello!  &  Happy Sunday! My Sunday looks to be rainy and wonderful.  :)  For today's Stationery Sunday I want share some delightful things I recently got in the mail from the wonderful Anupriya, the creative mind behind Howrah Bridge and now Artery by Howrah Bridge . We've been online friends with Anupriya for years now and are big fans of her work. I hope this year we get to take our online friendship offline too!  :)  I fell in love with these bookmarks when I first saw it's sneak peek. Aren't they just gorgeous?!  Of course, I had to get these beauties.  These are so vibrant and add so much colour and joy to my reading.  And because Anupriya is a total sweetie, she included these gorgeous postcards as a freebie with my order!  :)  I am a little bit of a badge/ button nut. I have a motley collection going and am always adding to it. So of course, these girls had to come hom...

Hello, April!  I hope it's a gentle summer!  I hope you are full of delicious mangoes! I hope you usher in my favourite Gulmohar blooms!  April is Bengali New Year and in honour of that I will, mostly, be reading books by Bengali authors and re-watch some of my old favourite Bengali movies. So, look for some book and movie recommendations from me this month!  Sneak Peak: Delfonics Small Pouch  I have wanted one of these Delfonics pouches ever since I saw them somewhere on Instagram! They are, originally, meant to be used as a purse organiser, but I plan to use them to cart around my Passport sized Traveler's Notebook and all my assorted supplies- washi tapes, stickers, pens and such like.  The buttons and pins are just things I had lying around at home: (Left to Right) Indian Spices: From Filter Shop, Kala Ghoda Owl: Boy Girl Party on Etsy Yellow Converse 'Wander': Asilda Store  Flower: Accessorize G...