Depressing but optimistic. The most simple way I can describe this book.
This book as other reviews have said, this book will either resonate with you or it won't. And is very much a right place at the right time book.

I was in a period of high stress and had recently lost a pet so I was in a very specific headspace and this book really did help me out.

I say it's depressing yet optimistic but that is a very basic review. If I had to describe the philosophy of the book, it resonated with my deep interest in absurdism. If you have an idea what that is, you can very much understand the general feeling of the book ( )

Depressing but optimistic. The most simple way I can describe this book.
This book as other reviews have said, this book will either resonate with you or it won't. And is very much a right place at the right time book.

I was in a period of high stress and had recently lost a pet so I was in a very specific headspace and this book really did help me out.

I say it's depressing yet optimistic but that is a very basic review. If I had to describe the philosophy of the book, it resonated with my deep interest in absurdism. If you have an idea what that is, you can very much understand the general feeling of the book ( )

Entre la vida y la muerte hay una biblioteca. Y los estantes de esa biblioteca son infinitos. Cada libro da la oportunidad de probar otra vida que podrías haber vivido y de comprobar cómo habrían cambiado las cosas si hubieras tomado otras decisiones... ¿Habrías hecho algo de manera diferente si hubieras tenido la oportunidad?. Nora Seed aparece, sin saber cómo, en la Biblioteca de la Medianoche, donde se le ofrece una nueva oportunidad para hacer las cosas bien. Hasta ese momento, su vida ha estado marcada por la infelicidad y el arrepentimiento. Nora siente que ha defraudado a todos, y también a ella misma. Pero esto está a punto de cambiar. Los libros de la Biblioteca de la Medianoche permitirán a Nora vivir como si hubiera hecho las cosas de otra manera. Con la ayuda de una vieja amiga, tendrá la opción de esquivar todo aquello que se arrepiente de haber hecho (o no haber hecho), en pos de la vida perfecta. Pero las cosas no siempre serán como imaginó que serían, y pronto sus decisiones enfrentarán a la Biblioteca y a ella misma en un peligro extremo. Nora deberá responder una última pregunta antes de que el tiempo se agote: ¿cuál es la mejor manera de vivir?

Story of a woman who regrets her choices in life and suffers from extreme depression. In the middle of life and death, she is given a chance to experience the different versions of her life, so she can truly understand the meaning of happiness and that every life could be labeled as a good life, but it depends on how you make of it. This book felt more like a philosophy book than a fictional story. Great concept but slow-paced and very wordy.

“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we’d worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more acutely, been more popular…” “But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It is the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst enemy.” “We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life…” “We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything…”

Haig, M. (2020). The Midnight Library. Viking. ( )

~4.5 stars. I've really enjoyed the other books by Matt Haig that I've read, and this continues the trend. The right book at the right time for me.
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