Nora Seed has attempted suicide and yet is not fully alive and not fully gone and we meet her there in the library with a decision to make - to live or to die. 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?” (Matt Haig, The Midnight Library) Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. “Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. One interesting note: Not everyone’s purgatory will be a library - another character we meet later is in a video store like a Blockbuster (how neat). Shelves on shelves on shelves of books of what might have been. ‘The Midnight Library’ is written about the in between of life and death, a purgatory of sorts and for the main character, Nora Seed, her in between is a library. And someone wrote me about this book and my gut said, listen to her. I shared in one of my emails that I am in a pattern right now of reading a self help book and then a novel or type of fiction and then back to self help, like a buffer. I took a big break on instagram and found I wanted to connect more directly and the newsletter was the most accessible beyond in person events at this time. I recently turned up the volume and frequency on my newsletter ( join here). I highly recommend a day of to read and I definitely recommend this book to be the one you do read.

Dare I say I took a day off and sat on my blue couch and read and read and read. I will not lie to you, I started this book on a Wednesday evening and finished it by Thursday afternoon.

The midnight library book review