Helpful Score: 2
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams broke my heart and then mended it in the best possible way. I'm thankful the many glowing review and comments on Bookstagram encouraged me to read this amazing debut sooner than later. Trigger warnings: Depression, suicide.
The Reading List is a tribute to the power of novels and the importance of libraries and is full of bookish goodness, familial love, found family, and a mystery. The story was partly inspired by the author's grandfather who found a connection with his granddaughter through books. Through a found list of eight book titles, readers follow the "birth" of two avid readers who are in very different circumstances: Aleisha, a 17-year-old girl who struggles to find any setting where she feels "at home" and Mukesh, an older widower who is mourning the death of his beloved wife.
Supporting characters include Mukesh's three "helpful" daughters, his adorable book-obsessed granddaughter, Aleisha's mother who is struggling with depression, and her older brother who assumes the primary caregiving and home management roles in the absence of their father.
I enjoyed the audiobook which is narrated by Tara Divina, Sagar Arya, and Paul Panting whose accents perfectly reflect the British and Indian ethnic origins of the characters. To fully appreciate the text, I slowed the speed to 1.0 which was delightful to savor the author's emotion-filled prose.
I haven't read many of the titles on The Reading List, but it's now a bucket list goal to do so.
The Reading List is a tribute to the power of novels and the importance of libraries and is full of bookish goodness, familial love, found family, and a mystery. The story was partly inspired by the author's grandfather who found a connection with his granddaughter through books. Through a found list of eight book titles, readers follow the "birth" of two avid readers who are in very different circumstances: Aleisha, a 17-year-old girl who struggles to find any setting where she feels "at home" and Mukesh, an older widower who is mourning the death of his beloved wife.
Supporting characters include Mukesh's three "helpful" daughters, his adorable book-obsessed granddaughter, Aleisha's mother who is struggling with depression, and her older brother who assumes the primary caregiving and home management roles in the absence of their father.
I enjoyed the audiobook which is narrated by Tara Divina, Sagar Arya, and Paul Panting whose accents perfectly reflect the British and Indian ethnic origins of the characters. To fully appreciate the text, I slowed the speed to 1.0 which was delightful to savor the author's emotion-filled prose.
I haven't read many of the titles on The Reading List, but it's now a bucket list goal to do so.
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