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-- Time-traveling between the lives that could have been "if only I'd made a different decision" --
Nora Seed is contemplating whether she wants to live. Her life hasn't been what she'd hoped, or planned, or expected and she feels lost and dejected. The 35-year-old finds herself in the Midnight Library, an in-between place between life and death. She's met by her former school librarian who sends her on parallel-universe adventures to explore the lives that she could be living. Each travel life ...more
Nora Seed is contemplating whether she wants to live. Her life hasn't been what she'd hoped, or planned, or expected and she feels lost and dejected. The 35-year-old finds herself in the Midnight Library, an in-between place between life and death. She's met by her former school librarian who sends her on parallel-universe adventures to explore the lives that she could be living. Each travel life ...more
Interesting read, cool concept though not entirely original (what is?).
Protagonist gets to sample from all the potential lives she could have led and sees herself as Olympic Athlete, Rock Star, Professor, Etc... all I could think about was replacing the main character with a normal person and then seeing life after life of mediocrity and the implications of that. I'm pretty confident that no choice I could have made in my life is likely to have led down a path to Rock Star status. That may have ...more
Protagonist gets to sample from all the potential lives she could have led and sees herself as Olympic Athlete, Rock Star, Professor, Etc... all I could think about was replacing the main character with a normal person and then seeing life after life of mediocrity and the implications of that. I'm pretty confident that no choice I could have made in my life is likely to have led down a path to Rock Star status. That may have ...more
Sometimes just the right book comes along at just the right time; that is The Midnight Library for me.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Sort of appropriate that this was the last book I read in 2020. It's been a strange year, with lots of time to think of things that happened in the past and of hopes for the future.
If you could choose another life you could have lived, would you? Or would you choose to live the life you have, but try to look at it differently?
A very imaginative book.
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If you could choose another life you could have lived, would you? Or would you choose to live the life you have, but try to look at it differently?
A very imaginative book.
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