Are these purely our choices? Do we like them? Can we do something to make it a little more personalized? It helps us ask ourselves whether the life we are leading are in fact the lives we want to lead. The Midnight Library talks about how each of our lives could end up in infinite number of ways based on the choices we make. These are strong thoughts made using strong words, and this is the strength of the book. There is a part wherein it says that in the game of chess, even if you have one pawn standing, the game isn’t over. The beauty of The Midnight Library is that it has the ability to communicate to people who think that their life is overwhelming and difficult. These lives, and her journey through them speak to you. While this part is purely fictional, and may not sit well with people who don’t like fiction, the author takes you through Nora’s mindset as she tries on various lives. This is where she gets to decide whether or not to end her life, one last time.

If she feels uncomfortable in that life, she will be transported back into the Library wherein she can try another life. From the friendly librarian, she gathers that each of these books are versions of her life She can pick one book, enter into that version of life, and try it on. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.When she attempts suicide, she goes into an in between world, The Midnight Library with endless number of books. In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?'Ī dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. To see how things would be if you had made other choices. 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.

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