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Matt Haig

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Matt Haig was born in Sheffield, England. He writes books for both adults and children, often blending the worlds of domestic reality and outright fantasy, with a quirky twist.

30 things to tell a book snob

People should read books. Books are good.

But many are intimidated. One of the reasons people are put off reading is snobbery. You know, the snobbery that says opera and lacrosse and Pinot Noir and jazz fusion and quails' eggs and literary fiction are for certain types of people and them alone?

There is something innately snobby about the world of books. There is the snobbery of literary over genr Read more of this blog post »
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Published on November 06, 2013 07:29 Tags: book-snobs, books, reading, snobbery, snobs
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The Midnight Library

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How to Stop Time

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The Humans

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Reasons to Stay Alive

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The Comfort Book

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Notes on a Nervous Planet

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“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The only way to learn is to live.”
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.”
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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From the list of the Goodreads 51 most read books of 2021, this is not decided by GR so thought it was better than their choice awards, choose from the 9 Fantasy books, which you would like to read as a BOM or buddy read for July 2022. We had a discussion on how many of these books some of us read and then decided to read a couple as buddy reads but I noticed that both selected were contemporary fiction. Since the group is "Paranormal" KAC, I decided to try to add in a fantasy book from the list for July. Vote for the book you would like to discuss in July. You can discuss as a first read, reread, or just by memory but please have the intention to join in. Thanks.

 
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Jeannie and Louis Rigod Matt, How kind of you to add us as friends here on Goodreads. We look forward to learning your reading likes and dislikes in the coming months.


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