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Central Book Club In-Person
Central Book Club meets the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm.
For a list of all our books for the year, visit this page.
For the virtual/online branch-off of this book club, which meets the third Tuesday of every other month, visit our separate registration page.
This month we are reading The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams. The book is available to check out from the library here.
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.
- Date:
- Tuesday, February 13, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- B Room
- Audience:
- Adults Public
- Categories:
- Library Event
