Read January 2022 - Zoom Reading Circle
What if there were a library out there with books about the life you actually live and books about the ways your life might have gone had you made different choices... and what if you got the chance to explore it and perhaps change your life yet again? Would you make different choices thus altering the course of your whole existence?
The Midnight Library was a unique and interesting book to read. It struck me as kind of like Quantum Leap - except all within Nora's own life. I loved the idea of discovering that regrets weren't really regrets - that those decisions were actually good ones. That life is good even in the midst of hard. Trust your gut. This was really different than books I usually read - but I so enjoyed it. I look forward to reading more by Matt Haig!
I rated this book 4 out of 5 stars. My book club as a whole rated it 4.1 stars.
Quotes from the book...
Thomas Hobbes had viewed memory and imagination as pretty much the same thing, and since discovering that she had never entirely trusted her memories.
"Never underestimate the big importance of small things," Mrs. Elm said. "You must always remember that."
I am saying that the thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory.
It would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunize you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
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