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The Midnight Library

Matt Haig

Start date: December 1, 2022

Finish date: January 31, 2023

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Mar 17, 2022 mana rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Jan 04, 2023 Honeypie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Well, here we are. After being an army, I started reading more 'mainstream' books. Hayyy, RM. Kung hindi lang kita mahal e. Hahaha!

Anyway, this was actually pretty good. Not bad.

It's not hard to imagine of your life, if parallel universes really do exist. But I like the takeaway, the perspective that there are other parallel lives that also exist, where you make different choices, live differently, happier, sadder, etc. I don't know if it does the same for others, but for me, it makes me feel t ...more

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May 08, 2021 DJey rated it really liked it

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Reading the book was like watching a warm fuzzy hallmark christmas movie, one-third in and you know how it's going to end -- so you may want to skip this if being surprised is high on your list.

Even thought at places it was a bit corny, I did enjoy the book a lot, it took these big heavy concepts from existentialism and made them simple and accessible in a story. Like, knowing even small actions matter, and with each small action you create a whole different world. And who inhabits those worlds Reading the book was like watching a warm fuzzy hallmark christmas movie, one-third in and you know how it's going to end -- so you may want to skip this if being surprised is high on your list.

Even thought at places it was a bit corny, I did enjoy the book a lot, it took these big heavy concepts from existentialism and made them simple and accessible in a story. Like, knowing even small actions matter, and with each small action you create a whole different world. And who inhabits those worlds ? You. You live in all these possibilities all at once, experiencing different things but with the same consciousness.

She comes back to the reality from a life she loved, really LOVED, because in her reality she's able to do more to help people. Small things that make a big difference. Reading that helped that no matter how knotted the life fabrics seems, it will stretch out into something grand, with just the right attitude. Like Nora, I've chosen other people's dreams over mine many times. And this book was a gentle but deep reminder to choose a path of kindness & connection, happiness will follow.

If you liked this, I recommend you also check out "Cloud Atlas" "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom", and "Mr. Nobody". The book pairs really well with some hot chocolate. Listing some quotes I liked and want to remember.

"You can choose choices but not the outcomes"
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see" -- Thoreau
"It is easy to regret, and keep regretting until your time runs out"
"There is no life in which you can be in a state of sheer happiness forever, and imagining it only breeds unhappiness in the current life"
"Want, is an interesting work, it means lack. Sometimes if we fill the lack with something else, the original want disappears"
"You see, doing one thing differently, is very often the same as doing everything differently"
"Sometimes the regrets aren't based on fact at all"
"To be human was to continuously dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple"
"Life begins on the other side of despair" - Sartre ...more

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Jan 24, 2023 Mariana rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Cheguei um pouco atrasada nesse hype, mas finalmente chegou o momento de ler “A Biblioteca da Meia-Noite” de Matt Haig.

A premissa desse livro foi o que mais me chamou atenção na hora de escolher a leitura: “e se você tivesse a oportunidade de saber como teria sido sua vida se tivesse tomado algumas decisões diferentes?”

Esse foi meu primeiro contato com o autor, achei sua escrita envolvente, mas em alguns momentos fiquei incomodada com a quantidade de “fras ...more

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Jun 22, 2021 Ailin rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Dec 03, 2021 mib6475654 rated it it was amazing

This book is amazing! I can’t totally see why it got the recognition that it did. The Midnight Library is so comforting and wholesome and it’s the literature equivalent to an umbrella in a downpour and warm clothes after cold winter. It’s everything good and comforting and reading it made my heart warm. It’s brilliantly written and inspiring. It’s really one of those books that enables you to live your best life.

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