The Reading List

by Sara Nisha Adams

“The people are endlessly fascinating,” Aidan had said to her when she’d told him she’d actually gotten the job. “Like, just watching people sit and be quiet, or browse, or whatever, when they don’t realize they’re being watched . . . It’s like, I don’t know, no one’s trying to be someone they’re not in a library.”

Sometimes, books just take us away for a little while, and return us to our place with a new perspective.

But Indira was always searching for connection; it was just that, quite often, no one was searching with her.

There was something magical in that—in sharing a world you have loved; allowing someone to see it through the same pair of spectacles you saw it through yourself.