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The Midnight Library Matt Haig 304 pages | Published by Viking
Depressed and lonely, Nora thinks it would be best if she was no longer living. She decides to die and after taking some pills, she wakes up to find herself at The Midnight Library - a place between life and death. Inside the library are books of other lives she could have had, if she had made different choices. She can enter these parallel lives and choose to remain in it if she finds the life she truly wants, but only if she does so before her time in the library runs out.
This was really unlike anything I've ever read. At first I didn't understand why so many seem to love the book, as its fairly depressing at the beginning. But the short chapter kept it moving quickly, and all of a sudden you find yourself sucked into this world of undoing regrets.
I'm interested in reading more from Matt Haig - something about his writing felt cozy, like I wasn't reading the book but rather it was being read TO me - like a bedtime story. He really pulled off telling a hopeful story without getting overly cheesy.
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