Book review- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

 

And the verdict of today’s book review is that-

I can say with obvious assurance that this book is a beautiful read showcasing the power of choices and their determining outcome on succeeding moments in life. This dream-like novel held a message that we are never fully stuck in life and that we all possess the ultimate power within us to rewrite our lives at any moment.

"The Midnight Library" renders the story of Nora Seed who is an unhappy, depressed, and desperate woman estranged from her family and friends. Nora has just lost her job, and her cat is dead. Believing she has no reason to go on, she writes a farewell note and takes an overdose of antidepressants. But instead of waking up in heaven, hell, or eternal nothingness, she finds herself in a library filled with books that offer her a possibility to see and experience an infinite number of alternate new lives.

We are often hooked between our choices and what life and people offer us. But in the struggle of dwindling between our wants, desires, regrets, and what we have in our hands we often forget the living itself. Nora got the opportunity to relive those options and choices that her root life provided and she once had regret of not choosing those options.

I think this book will tell something different to every person who picks it up. To me, this read felt like a manifesto for true self-acceptance.

Sharing my favorite one-line quotes from the book-

“The only way to learn is to live.”

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”

“Sometimes just to say your truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”

“You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.”

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”