Up until now, Nora Seed’s life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. When she finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right.
The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. Each one contains a different life, a possible world in which she made different choices that played out in an infinite number of ways, affecting everyone she knew as well as many people she never met. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every decision she regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.
Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: What is the best way to live?"
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While reading it, I kept asking myself, “What am I reading?", “Do I really want to continue?" and “Can I give it up?" And finally, I decided to give it up. It was a very depressing reading experience. I hate being depressed. And yet worse, I was forced to feel depressed every time I picked up this book!
Life is never easy. You just have to try your best to live it as good as you can.
Nora doesn’t like her root live. She tries to kill herself, and then she ends up being caught between live and death. I didn’t expect her story to be like an Aesop’s fable in which you will learn a lesson, and the result will turn out good. But I didn’t expect all those disappointments. Yes, she can choose a life to undo a decision. Yet every life she chooses ends up a big disappointment, and then she is sent back to the library. Again and again. And so, we readers have to read about all her meseries in each life with everyone in her family. Are there no one decent, according to Nora, in her family? Everyong who Nora tries to make up with becomes someone who causes her more regrets. Wow!! How pathetic it is!!
I just can’t waste my time reading all these … NO WAY!!
“Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived.
No one believes her story. The police think she’s crazy. Her therapist thinks she’s suicidal. Everyone else thinks she’s a dangerous drunk. They’re all right – but did she see the killer?
AS THE ANNIVERSARY of the murders approaches, Faith is released from the psychiatric hospital and yanked back to the last spot on earth she wants to be – her home town where the slayings took place. Whacked by the lingering echoes of survivor’s guilt, Faith spirals into a black hole of alcoholism and wanton self-destruction. Finding no solace at the bottom of a bottle, Faith decides to track down her sister’s killer – and discovers that she’s the one being hunted."
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I could have given it four stars, but the ending was too sad, when Faith realized who was really behind the murders.
I felt like crying when Faith’s best friend’s aunt showed her the photo she took. It was a photo taken on Faith’s best friend Anna’s birthday. In the photo, veryone was so happy. But then they were all gone, except Faith.
The reason why they were all murdered ten years ago was unbelievablly selfish, and so, the person who was behind the murders was really hedious. Too bad she was shot to death!!
I’d like to read the Jack Stratton series, also written by Christopher Greyson. However, I couldn’t find any copies in the library. So … sigh …
“Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line seperating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet.
In an isolated belt of Queensland, Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one another’s nearest neighbors. Cameron was the middle child, the one who ran the family homestead. But something made him head out alone under the unrelenting sun.
Nathan, Bub, and Nathan’s son return to Cameron’s ranch and to those left behind by his passing: his wife, his daughters, and his mother, as well as their long-time employee and two recently hired seasonal workers. While they grieve Cameron’s loss, suspicion starts to take hold, and Nathan is forced to examine secrets the family would rather leave in the past. Because if someone forced Cameron to his death, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects."
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This was the second book I read that was written by Jane Harper. The first was The Dry. The lives described in both books were so surprisingly different from our lives here in Taiwan. In The Dry, I first realized that water supply is such a big issue in Australia. The dry season can last for years!! In this book, I found it amazing that it takes hours just to drive to your nearest neighbor!!
I felt so sad to read about a mother who was forced to murdered her son, so that she could save her family.
“The year is 1896. The city is New York, and a serial killer is on the loose. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler – psychologist, of ‘alienist’ – to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary new effort in criminology: creating a psycological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. They’re soon joined by Sara Howard, the first woman hired by the New York City Police Department. The team’s dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over.
Part Arthur Conan Doyle, part The Silence of the Lambs, The Alienist conjures up Gilded Age Manhattan, with its tenements and mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. It’s the book that proved Caleb Carr a master at depicting the unsettling forces that trmble beneath everyday life."
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I quite like the story, the team without the Alienist (haha, wierd, right? I really don’t like him.), the great house they use as their headquarter, and the good food. All those worth four or more stars. However, I can’t stand the gabbling on and on about so many little things, at leas to me, they are little things I don’t care about. And I don’t like Dr. Kreizler.
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