The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

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...

 Hello Loves!  Long time no chit chat.  Life has been one crazy bout of being busy and being anxious and packing and unpacking and getting the house livable again.  It's been a lot. I feel like all of June has been one big stress ball and somewhere all of it just got to be and I took a pretty big break from this space. It was both intentional and happenstance and I have a lot of catch up one. Mostly my June Reading Wrap-Up and my Monthly faves.  I will slowly get to those.  But for now, let's talk July!  Hello July!  The month of rains and hopefully some good reading!  Half the year is over. Just gone and now we slip into the second half. My favourite half of the year. The one with all the festivities and joys and the promise of autumn and winter. I am already in the good mood because the monsoon is here and I feel most alive.  :)  We've had some amazing rain days recently.  The view outside my bedroom window.  I have miss...

Hello!  On my recent visit to Kalimpong, we drove up to Lava, a little town 30 kms from the city up in the hills. The drive itself was gorgeous, winding roads and rains and clouds. Some stretches were in dire states, the road was quite bumpy and there were several patches where repair work was on going, so I am hoping that it will be fixed soon.  Once we got to Lava, the rains really got going. It was pouring hard and by the time we got out of the car and to the monastery we were soaked.  Hence most of these pictures are liberally covered in raindrops.  Sadly, we didn't make it to inside the monastery, given the rains and the slightly steep walk,  I got close enough but I was soaked and even my poor camera was getting wet.  Here are some pictures.  Prayer Flags dancing in the breeze.  Raindrops adding their own bokeh effect.  The entire place was full of all kinds of ferns.  I don't know ...