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The Midnight Library
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Chosen as BotM for November 2020.

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Michael
Like most people, Nora Seed has regrets. She regrets giving up swimming because of the strain it placed on her relationship with her dad. She regrets calling off her wedding to Dan and working with him to start a country pub. She regrets quitting a band with her brother just as they were on the cusp of success due to crippling social anxiety.

After being laid off from her dead-end job in a music store, Nora decides that her life is no longer worth living. She sets about ending things, only to fin
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Logan
I really really really wanted to love this novel. Partly because I related so well to Nora, and partly because I loved the concept of the infinite possibility library where you can live out alternate realities. But this one fell so flat for me. Haig has some really powerful and beautiful lines but they are overpowered by the obvious message that he keeps thunking us over the head with. We can see where the story is going and yet for such a short book it feels like it took forever to get there.

I
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Catsalive
Jan 07, 2022 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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3.5*
An interesting concept & very easy reading, even though Nora is a dreary, oh-woe-is-me piece of work. Yeah, yeah, depression & all, but I couldn't care much for her despite being interested in the story.
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