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Jackie Robinson asked this question about The Reading List:
Okay, I loved this. I really did - but I have two things that I wish to discuss about this novel. - Did it bother anyone else that Aleisha would be called a librarian with no librarian qualification? I'm a library assistant studying to become a librarian and it bothered me like crazy. - Was anyone else perplexed that they didn't give a reason or follow up why Aidan committed suicide?
Rachel Aidan committed suicide because he could no longer handle the stress and responsibility of caring for a parent with a serious mental illness. I believ…moreAidan committed suicide because he could no longer handle the stress and responsibility of caring for a parent with a serious mental illness. I believe they had been without their father for 8 years. It wasn't until Aleisha and her mother connected through her reading aloud that he felt like he could leave them. In his last conversation with Aleisha he says to her "Mum'll be fine, you'll be great with her. You are great....you'll do fine without me."

And out of all the people mentioned who found or were given the reading list "in case they need it", he is the only one who does not take the list. He thinks, "What does he need with something like this?" So not only does he not find the solace in the list that the other readers did, it is an indication of one of the many things he has given up: reading for pleasure, the library, university, the job he wanted, to take care of his mother.(less)
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The Reading List
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