POSTPONED: Gunny GoodReads Book Club: March 2024

Apologies for the inconvenience, Gunny GoodReads will be POSTPONED until next Wednesday, April 3.

Please join us at 3:30 pm on Wednesday, March 27 for the next meeting of the Books-n-Bars.

Read & discuss: “The Reading List” by Sara Nisha Adams

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.

Traditional book club that meets once a month to discuss books over light snacks. They read contemporary fiction, with a taste for the suspense or thriller genre and meet on the last Wednesday of every month from 3:30-4:30 pm (some changes due to holidays). Titles for the next month’s meeting are announced a month before. They will also be available in e-edition, audiobook, large print, etc.