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Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No. But do I want to live? Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes.
- Nora Seed, The Midnight Library
I really really liked this book! This is a wholesome, quick read. I probably would've finished this a lot quicker if I had a hard copy. 😅 Between life and death is a library that has an infinite number of lives not taken. The dark opening sets the stage for the existence of the library. The story reads of as episodic but that's aa given considering she's hopping through different lives! I really liked Nora. I felt all of her emotions and realizations. Shes a multilayered character and all her layers, as a sister, daughter, friend, lover and mother are seen throughout the many lives she lives to find the right one for her. The last life had me in tears. 🥺 This was an emotional read. Nora is in a desperate state of mind at the beginning and I liked how her thoughts change course. The book has a dark tone but it's balanced with love, warmth, affection and healing. There were many quotes on life throughout the book and I highlighted a few I liked (swipe). To summarize, this book is about living in the present and now. Not the what ifs and not the how's of the future either. I feel like on some level all of us struggle with this, living in the now (I do!) And this book was a wholesome reminder imo. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ P.S This is my first book by Matt Haig and I liked how he combined scientific concepts (quantum physics, climate change, etc) with art and fantasy. Can't wait to read more of his works. 😊 Definitely recommend. Please do read TWs before you start 🙂 also this would make for a great movie 😁 seeing 'Howl' come to live would be magical 💓 #bookreview #themidnightlibrary #matthaig #thebookofregrets #fantasy #booktography #ebooks #aesthetics #mybookfeatures #booklove #ibooks #quickread #readingslump #recommend #bookrecs #bookstagrid #booktography #libros #booknerdigan #bookhoarder #loveyourshelf #booknookstagram #readersgonnaread #pagesofsilverreviews #pagesofsilver #bookishcommunity #readingisfundamental #bookblog #bookishfeature #youngadult (at Islamabad, Pakistan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVBASDDAMs0/?utm_medium=tumblr
The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil– rich, fertile soil. She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
2020 Wrap Up!
Hi everyone, hope you’re enjoying your holidays! I can’t believe it’s almost the end of 2020. So, before 2020 ends, here are my top 5 reads of this year (and some honorable mentions)!
1. “The Night Circus”- This is now one of my favorite fantasy stories. The circus was so magical and enchanting, I yearned to be part of it.
2. “The Midnight Library”- Combined with beautiful prose and an important message about life, the Midnight Library made me want to stop regretting about my actions, and live in the moment.
3. “The Starless Sea”- Another work by Erin Morgenstern! Quite different from “The Night Circus”, but still magical (filled with painted doors and hidden libraries)! The plot is so unique, I was blown away.
4. “Becoming”- This autobiography by Michelle Obama was so inspiring, and made me realize once again how she is such a passionate, kind, and beautiful human being.
5. “The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle”- This is a thriller that completely blew me away! The plot of the main character having to embody different characters to find the murder was something new. I didn’t expect the plot twist at the end, either.
Now some honorable mentions!
“With the Fire on High”- Besides the touching storyline, the descriptions of the food alone made me so hungry!
“Daisy Jones and the Six”- Because of Reid’s amazing writing, the characters were vibrant, and seemed so real.
“The Goldfinch”/”The Secret History”- These are a bit conflicting. I didn’t love it, but both left me thinking for a very long time. Also, the fact that I read “The Goldfinch” (around 800 pages!) in 2 days shows there was something about that book.
“Again, Again”- Similar to “The Midnight Library”, it made me reflect on life.
What were everyone’s favorite books of the year? Let me know!
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The Midnight Library
Author: Matt Haig
Published by: Canongate
Pages: 288
Format: Hardback (Independent Bookshop Edition)
My Rating ★★★★★
Between life and death there is a library.
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.
The books in the midnight library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be, and soon her choices place her in extreme danger.
My thoughts:
From the author of How to Stop Time and The Humans comes this poignant, unique novel about hope, regret and forgiveness - and a library that houses second chances.
This is a captivating and warm story of a young woman who is just done with living. She sees no place for her in the world. And so, she ends up in the secret library...a place where she has an opportunity to take a different path, lead an infinite number of different lives, and try and find what it is that makes her truly happy.
I love Matt Haig’s message throughout his books of gentleness and kindness. And this may well be my favourite so far.
Of course, the library consists of books, all green in colour. The library also exists between life and death. Firstly, Nora has to look at the huge tome of the Book of Regrets. In it are all the times where she regretted a particular decision at a turning point in her life or other small different possible turns. The library has a limitless number of books, and these books are far from ordinary.
Haig sprinkles gold dust in each book, offering Nora the opportunity to see how her life would have turned out if each and every decision at every point in her life had been different. The various books illustrate the endless possibilities that life holds for Nora and all of us. Nora explores each book, with inquisitiveness and curiosity, the widely different lives that could have been hers, no easy task as she has to slip into each new life with the complications of being unfamiliar with it and do so without alerting the other people close to her.
Nora is allowed the opportunity to become a "slider", to go and try out the lives she might have had. She starts with the bigger decisions like what would have happened if she had continued with a particular relationship, or a particular career path etc. If she is content enough, she will stay in the other life, if not she will return to the library, but time in her "root life" is running out. It is certainly one to get you thinking. I was thinking about major turning points in my own life when I may have chosen differently, and I would have had a totally different life. As always, the author makes you think about what really matters and it is done with great humour and real heart. There's something cosy and safe about this book, despite there being many occasions when Nora Seed is in peril. I’m so glad I was able to read it in just a couple of sittings from home as the rain poured outside. It felt perfect for this time of year as we approach the final few days of October.
Imagine It's a Wonderful Life of our times. A beautiful, heart-warming hug of a book. Matt Haig knows how to pull on your heartstrings and he does it oh so well. It’s been snapped up for a film adaptation by Studio Canal, and I’m really intrigued to see it the story told on screen next!
The Midnight Library is quietly profound and deeply meaningful. It’s one I know I’ll remember for a long time. What a beautiful book, as expected.
Overall reaction:
You can choose choices but not outcomes.
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
When you stay too long in one place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any person... But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichens cling to rock.
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
