Have you ever asked yourself, am I living my best life? What if I did this instead of that? What if I could rewrite old regrets and live them to see what my life would be like?
Matt Haig’s book, The Midnight Library had me questioning every life decision I have made, and honestly torturing myself (just a little) of what could have been.
Nora Seed, is a woman in her 30s who is lost, depressed, and heartbreakingly sad. She decides this life is not worth living and makes the decision to end it. This leads her to The Midnight Library and Nora’s version of an in-between realm. We meet Nora’s old school librarian, who she played chess with. The librarian offers Nora unlimited ways to undo any regret, path, or decision she had made and live that alternative life. A simple decision of walking down one street or another, to a big decision of leaving who you believe could have been the love of your life. All she had to do was turn a page in the ‘book of regrets’ and live that life. Could she have been a glacier, a musician, an owner of a country pub, and will any of these other lives make her happier? Some lives last minutes, some days but all answer questions. The possibilities are endless.
This book is poignant, funny at times, and ultimately beautiful. It pushed me to question my own life decisions and give them some perspective.
I highly recommend this book for your book clubs. I promise you it will be a spirited conversation that will go on for hours.
This book also belongs in my Thursday Thoughts
