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Liked it in the sense that it opened up umpteen parallel possibilities to my mundane existence. But it could have been better. In some places, found it predictable and dragging.
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This story is about a girl, Nora Seed, who decides to end her life because she thinks she is worthless and is adding no value to anyone around her and she thinks her life isn't perfect and she's full of regrets.
When she overdoses on pills, she dreams of a Library where all the books are doorways to all the different lives she could have lived and all the regrets in her mind where she made a different decision.
When she excitedly starts picking her parallel lives one by one and starts liv ...more
This story is about a girl, Nora Seed, who decides to end her life because she thinks she is worthless and is adding no value to anyone around her and she thinks her life isn't perfect and she's full of regrets.
When she overdoses on pills, she dreams of a Library where all the books are doorways to all the different lives she could have lived and all the regrets in her mind where she made a different decision.
When she excitedly starts picking her parallel lives one by one and starts liv ...more
Nora Seed
I was pulled in right from the beginning. Nora is having a shit day that ends up being the straw that broke the camel's back of a shitty existence as of late. Now she has decided she is done.
"Between life and death there is a library."
After the decision and action is made, Nora ends up in the library that exists between life and death. She gets the opportunity to live out some of the regrets that she had during her lifetime to see what may have happened had she actually made those choi ...more
I was pulled in right from the beginning. Nora is having a shit day that ends up being the straw that broke the camel's back of a shitty existence as of late. Now she has decided she is done.
"Between life and death there is a library."
After the decision and action is made, Nora ends up in the library that exists between life and death. She gets the opportunity to live out some of the regrets that she had during her lifetime to see what may have happened had she actually made those choi ...more
”The only way to learn is to live.”
Lovely and insightful. Believing that the there’s no one left in the world who needs her, Nora overdoses. She ends up in “The Midnight Library” where she’s surrounded by books. The books represent different lives she could have had if different choices were made. All except a few, one of those being the Book of Regrets.
“And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other.”
This reminds me a bit of the “Butterf ...more
Lovely and insightful. Believing that the there’s no one left in the world who needs her, Nora overdoses. She ends up in “The Midnight Library” where she’s surrounded by books. The books represent different lives she could have had if different choices were made. All except a few, one of those being the Book of Regrets.
“And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other.”
This reminds me a bit of the “Butterf ...more
What an utter marvel! Terrific soul-searching question-filled bit of marvelousness!
Oct 19, 2020
Breanna
marked it as to-read
Nov 01, 2020
E.S.
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Nov 22, 2020
Katie
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Dec 08, 2020
Bookracer
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Dec 22, 2020
Karigan
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3.5 stars
Apr 07, 2021
Jennifer McLean
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