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A review by iris_ymra
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
3.0
'Between life and death there is a library,’ she said. ‘And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. 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?'
'You can choose choices but not outcomes.'
'Never underestimate the big importance of small things.'
'Undoing regrets was really a way of making wishes come true.'
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I love the idea of this book -- about the midnight library -- which definitely made a nice fantasy book written with the idea of how quantum physics work, and made the possibility of another parallel life. The author stressed on mental health through the MC, Nora Seed, as we can see how she struggles over her mental health in her root life and even in her alternate lives. And I would say that literally this book is definitely well written, I bet you that every sentence in this book is very quotable.
Her journey in the midnight library has brought her into so many possibilities of another live she could live up when she made a different choice and decision in her root life. And through these lives Nora then found what she really wants; what life, what people, and of what of her.
The things for me when reading this book was how I found it to be a really slow paced, the repetitive of Nora choosing life really bored me -- and it was through the entire middle of the story which almost actually through the entire of the story I think -- I get it (or maybe I don't) that the author wants us to go along with Nora -- and together with her -- rediscovered her purpose of living. But it didn't quite sit well with me when I couldn't grasp the idea and couldn't see the insight of what or where the story was going. It was only at the end of the book that I finally felt present in the story and relate to Nora emotionally, and it's only then I felt that I was beside her when she decided to come, alive. And for that I wasn't really felt that disappointed, hence the three stars.
'You can choose choices but not outcomes.'
'Never underestimate the big importance of small things.'
'Undoing regrets was really a way of making wishes come true.'
______
I love the idea of this book -- about the midnight library -- which definitely made a nice fantasy book written with the idea of how quantum physics work, and made the possibility of another parallel life. The author stressed on mental health through the MC, Nora Seed, as we can see how she struggles over her mental health in her root life and even in her alternate lives. And I would say that literally this book is definitely well written, I bet you that every sentence in this book is very quotable.
Her journey in the midnight library has brought her into so many possibilities of another live she could live up when she made a different choice and decision in her root life. And through these lives Nora then found what she really wants; what life, what people, and of what of her.
The things for me when reading this book was how I found it to be a really slow paced, the repetitive of Nora choosing life really bored me -- and it was through the entire middle of the story which almost actually through the entire of the story I think -- I get it (or maybe I don't) that the author wants us to go along with Nora -- and together with her -- rediscovered her purpose of living. But it didn't quite sit well with me when I couldn't grasp the idea and couldn't see the insight of what or where the story was going. It was only at the end of the book that I finally felt present in the story and relate to Nora emotionally, and it's only then I felt that I was beside her when she decided to come, alive. And for that I wasn't really felt that disappointed, hence the three stars.