Loved itThe Midnight Train is like a kind of sequel to The Midnight Library, which I know has such mixed reactions. I love that type of story and I love everything that went on in it.
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The Midnight Library (2020)
Others: Mixed Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?” A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
- ISBN:
- 9780525559498
- Length:
- 304 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, literary fiction
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Loved it
Not a fanI've read stories like Shark Heart or Midnight Library, all highly rated, all beloved, and I kind of walk away from them feeling annoyed. They just don't really land, they're a little too over the top, a little too saccharine.
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Not a fanfor me this book is all fart and no poo you know like the concept is great but the execution I don't know it feels like a bad self-help book
Not a fanI read a book by Matt Hy the Midnight Library and I really didn't like that book
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Loved itit's a beautiful book and you kind of already know where the story is headed but the way the story moves forward in the way Nora's character develops is what you pick this book up for
Not a fanI just did not get the hype with this book it's about a character that maybe thinks about ending her own life and she gets an opportunity to basically if her life if she would have made X Y and Z choices and we go through her life with that and I just didn't find it as thought provoking as a lot of people else did
Loved itI'm going to put an absolute fave because this is a book that meant a lot to me I've talked about it like I read it at the perfect time and it's one that's gonna stick with me
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Mixedit was interesting that i do think the writing was done really well my thing is that overall like i just wasn't overly impressed with the story
Loved itit's a really important book i think i've actually recommended this to quite a few people some loved it some didn't it's a hard book to read