The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Midnight Library
AUTHOR: Matt Haig @mattzhaig
Publisher: Viking @vikingbooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: September 29, 2020
The Review
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- So many people have been talking about this book, plus we are reading it in book club this month.
💜 What I liked:
- The book was inspirational and touching. There were so many insights to gain personally. Plus the story of Mora was just fascinating and moving.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- Maybe the ending could have gone a little further but it also ended so hopefully.
💁♀️ The Characters:
- Nora is seeing all the possibilities of her life and living them.
🚦 The Ending:
- Full of possibilities. My favorite quote from this book is “Sometimes the only way to learn is to live!”
💬 The Narrator:
- Carey Mulligan could have been stronger on the male characters but overall I like her voice. At times the names were hard to understand too.
💭 Consider if you like:
- Sliding Doors or Maybe in Another Life.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary:
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.