The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams was such a heartwarming read!! I cried many times while reading. I hybrid read this one (reading physically and listening to the audiobook) and it was a great experience!

This story not only discusses grief, but found family and unlikely friendships.

We follow Mukesh, an older man who has just lost his wife. His wife, Naina, was an avid reader but throughout their life he never picked up a book or really talked to her about the books she was reading. He just loved her and her passion for reading. After her death he finds a library book of The Time Travelers Wife in with her things and decided to read it for himself. Leading him to the library where he meets a young girl named Aleisha who also doesn't read and is unable to give jim book recommendations. Until Aleisha is given a reading list that a regular library goer had found.  She decides to read the books listed and if they are good she'll recommend them to Mukesh.

I won't say anymore cause I want you to read this! Know you'll probably cry, be frustrated, or feel worried and anxious for the characters. But its all worth it.

It made me reflect on the relationship I have with my grandparents with reading. I was very lucky to grow up around people who loved reading. My parents, my grandparents, family friends and teachers all instilled a love of reading in me. I cherish my relationship with my grandparents very much and talking about books or seeing them read brings me so much joy.

 Whenever I speak to my grandmother she always asks me what I'm reading. As we talk about books she is usually reading a couple nonfiction books and some sci-fi fantasy! Haha she loves apocalyptic type stories and zombie ones too! My Papa read mostly western with a couple mysteries or thrillers thrown in there. But he was always reading. (Now he doesn't read due to his dementia.)

I'm thankful for all the people in my life who taught me to love reading and to learn from what I read. ❤

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There was only one part in the beginning that had made me pause. When Alesha is reading To Kill A Mockingbird she is talking about it with her brother and is upset that everyone is believing the white woman and not Tom. Her brother tells her "yeah that book gets deep. But remember its only a book." Personally that made me very upset. Because that situation is not only fiction. It has happened many time in the past and happens present day as well. I mean aren't they making a whole movie right now about Emmitt Till? Cause in her old age that white woman admitted that she lied and her lie got him brutally killed. 

I truly enjoyed this book and this one part was the only part that I had had a hard time with so I thought it only right that I include it in my review. I think it goes to show how some people think we are so far removed from "back in the day".