The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

 

Synopsis :

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


This is what I say :

I have started to pick up reading again.  I have not entirely stopped but I have slowed down considerably.  However, towards mid of last month, my reading pattern evolved again and here I am trying to catch up on my reading.

I got to know of The Midnight Library from someone's inta-story.  I searched for it and managed to get a pdf copy and here I am, completing it just a week into reading.  It's quite a short book with less than 300 pages long but the content is rather captivating.

Nora Seed had the opportunity to try out her many lives.  This brings much interesting thoughts as in would I want to try out my many other lives that I might have lived based on the decisions I made throughout my life time.  Small decisions big decisions are all decisions that can just affect the road of life that we are on. 

 The Midnight Library is not a self help book.  I am not sure what genre would I call it but I certainly enjoyed it.  As such, I do recommend it.

Would you want to have your own Midnight Library?


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