They are a delightful mix of pain, despair, love, joy, luck, fame, and more. She finds herself in the Midnight Library, a magical, mystical place filled with a limitless number of books containing the narratives to so many possible lives. Maybe she’s let everyone down, including herself: She is unmarried and just got fired/laid off and isn’t really sure if life is worth living. Nora Seed is bummed.She’s 35 and bored and full of regret. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, like many of my book selections, focus on mental health: depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation. Also, you’ve likely heard how a person can live multiple lives if s/he reads? Yep, that too. You know how certain books call out to you at ‘just the right time?’ This was one of those. I quickly fell into the rhythm of Matt Haig’s lovely and delightful THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY (Viking, September 2020) and I’m so glad I did. What’s not to love about a book that takes place in a library? At midnight? Okay, maybe the ‘midnight’ part, because, let’s face it, you can’t start a book at midnight like you can’t go to the 9pm movie. ~ WRITERS INTERVIEWING WRITERS| ALWAYS WITH A BOOK~ An instant New York Times bestseller A sublime, dazzling novel of what it means to make choices–and how non-choices are a choice, and then living a life well-lived.
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