When Mukesh Patel pops to the local library, forgoing his routine of grocery shopping and David Attenborough documentaries, he has no idea his life's about to change.
He meets Aleisha, a reluctant librarian, and the keeper of a curious reading list - just a scrappy piece of paper with the names of 9 stories. It doesn't seem anything special. Yet something tells her to keep it close . . .
Story by story, Mukesh and Aleisha work their way through the list - their worries slipping away with every encounter, with every world discovered in their unlikely book club of two.
A fresh chance at life, at friendship, wasn't on the cards for these lonely souls - but every story starts somewhere . .***
THE DOORS ARE NEW: automatic open.- PROLOGUE, 2017
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(HarperCollins, 22 July 2021, e-book, 430 pages, borrowed from AmazonKindle via PrimeReading)
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I really enjoyed The Reading List. I loved the idea of someone writing a list of books and very different people finding it, reading the books, having different reactions, and actually finding common ground because of it. This was a neat idea and drew me to the book in the first place. Mukesh and Aleisha are great characters and I enjoyed spending time with both of them. Their stories are interwoven with a glimpse into other people who have found the list. This is a great read.
