3.97 AVERAGE

hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional hopeful reflective relaxing slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional informative inspiring relaxing slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book is wonderful. As someone who was unaware of the actual heartbeat library, I hope to one day visit.
I loved watching a heart burst, break, heal, and love again.

Quite the slow burn, almost gave up on it, however it came together quite beautifully at the end and tugged at my heartstrings ❤️
emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

“There is a life that is real and then there's a bundle of imaginary lives that branch out from it.”

The Library of heartbeats, also called "Les Archives du Cœur" by French contemporary artist Christian Boltanski started in 2008 at the Teshima Art Museum, in Tonosho, Shozu District, Kagawa, Japan.

It is divided into 3 rooms:
1. The Heart room is a multimedia installation exploring themes of life and death using various trinkets like cookie in tin-boxes, candles, thousands of photos, used clothing and personal names to express the importance, transience, and fading of our human existence.

2. The Recording room is where visitors can record their own heartbeats together with a personal message which can both be part of the art and can be taken home as a CD and a booklet packed in a special box, to commemorate your visit and as a memento of your own personal existence.

3. The Listening room is where visitors can search through and listen to recordings of all the heartbeats in the museum’s archive using a computer database.

-i loved the the Phonebooth more than this, but it still has some good lines to highlight about life, love and all the other things that makes our hearts beat
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced