Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Matt Haig

“Between life and death there is a library.

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!!