the reading list by sara nisha adams review

Immediately she is regretful of her behavior, and by chance, finds a list on a piece of paper with book ideas. Aleisha is very rude (she’s having a bad day) and is very unhelpful. He meets Aleisha at the library and asks for a recommendation. She was an avid reader, so he wants to read more, but he doesn’t know where to begin. After reading that story, he felt closer to his deceased wife. Mukesh goes to the library after he finished one of his wife’s favorite novels, “The Time Traveler’s Wife”. The story revolves around a lonely widower who is still grieving the loss of his wife and a young library worker who works at the library to escape her family life and for the money. “The Reading List” shows how reading fiction allows us to become closer to people, to embrace challenges, and to become more empathetic. As a life-long reader, I was very moved by this story which highlights impactful novels and ordinary people. “The Reading List” is a beautiful story about the importance of reading. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again. When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list…hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she's facing at home. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.Īleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter and a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people-a lonely London widower and a troubled teenager.

The reading list by sara nisha adams review