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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

by Caroline Tirona, Circulation on 2021-11-20T16:46:00-05:00 | 0 Comments

Midnight Library is a fictional place in the in-between world of the living and the dead. While you are in this place you could choose a book. It could be a book/life travel of what could have been or could be and if it is not to your liking - you are transported back to the library and you can pick another book.

Nora Seed has decided to end her own life because she taught that life was better off without her, instead of dying she found herself in the midnight library. Nora has chosen so many books while she was at the library from being a swimmer, a glaciologist, a singer in a band, and being married to a man named Dan. She would try different books and go back to the library when things didn't work out for her. Then she ran out of time, and she needed to decide which book she wanted to be in permanently. Surprisingly, she has chosen the one she was given initially. 

Reading this book is like watching the extended printed version of the classic movie It's a Wonderful Life. There was no angel -Clarence in Midnight Library, but there is a librarian named Mrs. Elm who guides and supports Nora's to different dimensions. Both It's a Wonderful Life and Midnight Library taught me that there is only one way to know which life (or book) is best and that is to live and be grateful for it. 

Cover ArtThe Midnight Library by Matt Haig
ISBN: 0525559477
Publication Date: 2020-09-29


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