![]() ![]() And she’s welcome to stay there – so long as she doesn’t begin feeling disappointed or disillusioned with it. The first book she opens is the seemingly indefinitely paged book of regrets which prompts her to open these other books and live these other lives once she starts reading she becomes the Nora living in that life. In another, she doesn’t break up with her fiancé. In another, she studies to become a glaciologist as she had planned as a child. ![]() In one of them, Nora doesn’t give up her promising swimming career. Here there are thousands of books, each telling the story of an alternate reality, a parallel universe. The majority takes place in a realm within her mind, between life and death: The Midnight Library. The story starts with the protagonist Nora, utterly fed up with her life, feeling a failure, a hindrance to others, like the joy has been sapped out of her existence – she decides she’d rather not be alive anymore and (off-page) attempts suicide. It’s got a comfort read quality to it, despite feeling incredibly bleak and tragic at times – it’s through this that the light is able to shine through brighter. ![]() It’s one I encourage anyone to read, especially if you’re carrying regrets, uncertain of the path your life is taking or feeling like an underachiever. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is a book I may find myself coming back to again and again. ![]()
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