The Midnight Library

 


This is definitely a new favorite!  I’m putting it in my top 10!!  I looooved this book.  The beginning may be a little dark—it’s about a woman who basically has her life just falling apart. Nothing is going well. She really has no one significant in her life…it’s just…blah. She decides to take her own life by OD’ing on her antidepressants and alcohol.  The bulk of the book takes place in this in-between time where she is not really alive OR dead.  She’s in the “Midnight Library” where she not only can see and feel all of her past regrets but also the infinite possibilities of how her life could have gone by either changing one regret…or even making just the smallest different decision. She gets to “try out” these other parallel lives for herself in this space. I just adored this book and the themes that ran through it about how we can dwell on things we regret and oftentimes wonder what our lives would’ve been like if this or that decision would have been different.  Just…such a great book.  This is one that will forever stick with me and that I will recommend to others for sure!  Pretty darn close to a 5 star for me….hmmmm…maybe 4.9???

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