The Reading List

by Sara Nisha Adams

All these people who had taken it out before him, people who would take it out after him. They might have read it on a beach, on the train, on the bus, in the park, in their living room. On the toilet? He hoped not! Every reader, unknowingly connected in some small way.

Despite all the books she’d read in her lifetime, finding the words to say I love you, to the person she had spent the happiest years of her life with, seemed to be the hardest thing in the world.