Matt Haig
Goodreads Author
Born
in Sheffield, The United Kingdom
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October 2012
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The Midnight Library
180 editions
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2020
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How to Stop Time
115 editions
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2017
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The Humans
100 editions
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2013
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Reasons to Stay Alive
122 editions
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2015
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The Comfort Book
72 editions
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2021
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
72 editions
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2018
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A Boy Called Christmas (Christmas, #1)
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2016
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The Radleys
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2010
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The Girl Who Saved Christmas (Christmas, #2)
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2016
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The Dead Fathers Club
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2006
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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.”
― The Midnight Library
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.”
― 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.”
― The Midnight Library
― 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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