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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

April 24, 2022 by Zirza 1 Comment

Thirtysomething Nora Seed has failed at everything in life. None of the careers she’d envisioned for herself have panned out. Her relationships have faltered and fizzled out. Her cat has died. Her brother is no longer speaking to her. Shortly before midnight she decides to end her life but instead of heaven or hell, Nora finds herself in a large library, where it’s midnight forever and every book offers a look into what-if: what if Nora had kept up her rigorous swimming training? What if […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Matt Haig, Midnight Library

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Matt Haig, Midnight Library ·
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The Midnight Library: Surprisingly uplifting

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

March 1, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

The Midnight Library follows a woman name Nora Seed who has a pretty sad life: dead end job, bad apartment, dead cat, no friends, dead mom. So she decides to take her own life by overdosing. After laying down to die, she finds herself in this kind of interstitial space of a weirdly magical library with infinite books of all the infinite lives she could have lived. The librarian is a woman from her past, Mrs. Elm, who helped her through her father’s death. Mrs. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: afterlife, Books, Death, Fiction, library, Matt Haig, Midnight Library, Parallel Universe, Quantum Physics, Transformation

msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: afterlife, Books, Death, Fiction, library, Matt Haig, Midnight Library, Parallel Universe, Quantum Physics, Transformation ·
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