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A review by oashackelford
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
5.0
I know a lot of people on here are saying that this book is too cliché and that it is too easy to predict where it is going, but I still thought it was thought provoking and well written.
The book is centered on Nora, a woman whose life has been a disappointment to herself and others and she is full of regret so she decides to end her life. Instead of outright dying however, she finds herself in a library made up of all the versions of her life from every parallel universe. The librarian tells her that she can keep trying out lives until she finds one that she likes enough to stay in.
The book is about coming to terms with your regrets and realizing that you can only live life for yourself and not others and that the only way to experience life, and all of its up and downs, is just to live it. That sometimes you will be sad, but you won't always be sad. Sometimes you will be happy, but you won't always be happy. That living your life means accepting both of these truths and trying to find the balance.
I know the book is a little predictable, no author is going to advocate killing yourself as being the right answer, but I still think this book is worth reading. I really liked Nora's journey to discovering what she wanted out of life, and I liked that this book made me look at my own life to think about the decisions that I am grateful that I made, and more willing to accept the decisions I was less happy about but that still got me to where I am right now.
Also, this book made me think about the movie Stranger than Fiction a lot. I feel like if you liked that movie you would probably enjoy this book.
The book is centered on Nora, a woman whose life has been a disappointment to herself and others and she is full of regret so she decides to end her life. Instead of outright dying however, she finds herself in a library made up of all the versions of her life from every parallel universe. The librarian tells her that she can keep trying out lives until she finds one that she likes enough to stay in.
The book is about coming to terms with your regrets and realizing that you can only live life for yourself and not others and that the only way to experience life, and all of its up and downs, is just to live it. That sometimes you will be sad, but you won't always be sad. Sometimes you will be happy, but you won't always be happy. That living your life means accepting both of these truths and trying to find the balance.
I know the book is a little predictable, no author is going to advocate killing yourself as being the right answer, but I still think this book is worth reading. I really liked Nora's journey to discovering what she wanted out of life, and I liked that this book made me look at my own life to think about the decisions that I am grateful that I made, and more willing to accept the decisions I was less happy about but that still got me to where I am right now.
Also, this book made me think about the movie Stranger than Fiction a lot. I feel like if you liked that movie you would probably enjoy this book.