Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
Book # 78 of 2021
REVIEW: First off there are definitely some trigger warnings for this book, suicide and depression, and self-harm, just to name a couple. Please make sure you do your research before reading this book. Okay onto the review. I this the idea of being able to rid your self of all your regrets in life is very interesting. Being able to sample all the different possibilities of what your life could have been is intriguing especially learning that no life is perfect. All lives experience pain and loss and disappointments. As I suffer from bouts of depression, I just don't think this book was for me. It was a little much for me to see all the versions of her life where she was still filled with despair and pain. I will say that my heart felt much lighter by the end of the book and gave me a new appreciation to choosing happiness and seeing things another way. Overall I would have to give this a 3 out of 5 because for me it was a quite heavy book and just maybe not the right book for me at this time.
Publication date: September 29, 2020
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