January Book Club
When: Tuesday January 17th at 7 pm
Where: P.F. Chang's
7077 Friars Rd, San Diego, CA 92108
It's a new year and time to get out there and try something new. Why not have that something new be book club? We read a wide variety of books, of all genres, and meet in locations around San Diego as selected by group members. To kick off the new year we will be discussing The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams.
Book description 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."
Looking ahead: Book club meets at 7 pm on the third Tuesday of every month in locations all over San Diego as chosen by book club members. The book club selection for February is The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B by Sandra Gulland.
