BBQ/Pool/River/Kayaking and "The Reading List" by Sara Nisha Adams

EVENT: Let’s meet at my house to discuss the book and eat, swim, kayak or relax on the beach on the Bohemia River. We’ll have a BBQ. If everyone brings a dish, I’ll provide the main food of hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken. Let me know in your reply if you have any dietary requirements and what you plan to bring. BYOB or whatever you want to drink. I’ll provide wine, sodas and water.

I have 3 kayaks or bring your own if you want to go kayaking. It's a large above-ground pool.

Feel free to bring a guest or two with you. Hopefully, they'll read the book.

Parking is tough, so I'll be on the lookout and show everyone where to park.

Fingers crossed for good weather!

BOOK: "The Reading List" by Sara Nisha Adams
FROM GOODREADS: An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.

Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. 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.

Aleisha 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. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. 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. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home.

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. 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.

Happy Reading!

Diane