the reading list by sara nisha adams book club questions

For Aleisha, it was a lot of telling through the reading list and I would have appreciated a bit of showing to connect us to her emotional turmoil. She was stuck working in a library over the summer, required to help her ailing mother, and frustrated with life and I felt none of the emotion that would be associated with those struggles. But also, that may be both a blessing and a curse! Mukesh is a good character and a strong protagonist.Īleisha on the other hand was bland despite a tumultuous life derived from familial and personal struggles. I wish I was Mukesh when I read as his ability to connect with a novel is phenomenal and I'd love for each read I embark upon to have that hold on me. I liked how Mukesh was written because he was real and although his personal connections to the reading list were a touch melodramatic for me, I cannot dismiss them as I know intense emotions can always be elicited from an impactful read. He is set in his ways, his daughters are overbearing and attempt to take care of everything for him (something I think is so common for tight-knit families), and he experiences physical ailments. (Aug.Mukesh is a delightful characterisation of an elderly man. Agent: Hayley Steed, Madeleine Milburn Literary. Adams is a brisk and solid plotter, and has an easy hand with creating characters who are easy to root for. When the creator of the list is revealed, there isn’t much in the way of surprise, but it gains emotional resonance after Adams links the list to a late-breaking tragic event.

As time passes, Mukesh and Aleisha become good friends, with Mukesh and his granddaughter, Priya, joining in on a reading list Aleisha found tucked in a returned book, which includes such classics as To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, and Beloved. After Londoner Mukesh’s wife, Naina, dies, he picks up the book she was reading before she died, The Time-Traveler’s Wife, hoping “to turn the black letters and yellowed pages into a letter from Naina to him.” When he later returns the book to the library, he meets the restless and prickly 17-year-old library worker Aleisha, who reluctantly took the job after encouragement from her troubled older brother, also a bookworm. Adams’s winsome debut follows a widower who takes up reading in order to honor the memory of his wife.

The reading list by sara nisha adams book club questions