Genre: Fantasy / Contemporary
Book Type: Physical
Author: Matt Haig
Pages: 304
Publisher: Viking; 1st Edition (September 29, 2020)
Book Description:
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 blockbuster 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.
Thoughts:
This is a beautiful book about Life, the choices we make, and the outcomes of those choices. In summary, it is about a woman who can see how her life would have been altered had she made different choices in her life – some of them small changes, and some of them big.
This book is incredibly well written and really makes you think about the life you are living, while also finding beauty in those choices along the way.
“You can choose choices but not outcomes… It was a good choice. It just wasn’t the desired outcome.”
“Never underestimate the importance of small things.”
“Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spent so much wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.”
“But there is no life for you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”
“She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.”
This was an easy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫. I wanted more in the end, but loved the way it made me reflect on my own life. I don’t want to say too much more to give away the book, but definitely highly recommend this book.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
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