The Reading List

by Sara Nisha Adams

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

‘No one can ever really understand what other people have gone through. But people should try.’

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.

‘Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world, they don’t hide it.’

And a place is only what it is because of the people who make

Books always change as the person who reads them changes too.