This week's book:
The Midnight Library
By Matt Haig
I actually read this week's book at the beginning of last year, but I never ended up writing a blog about it. This past weekend my book group discussed this book and I was reminded of my lack of a blog. This novel is written by a man, but is all about a woman, which my group found interesting.
The novel is about a woman down on her luck, when she decides that she will end her life. Instead of being taken to heaven or hell, she ends up in a purgatory in the form of a library. In this library she gets to check out books, in which each book tells her life if she made different choices or different things happened in each one.
The thing that I enjoyed the most about this book was that each alternative life wasn't a total hellscape. So often in novels and films, it's seems like each different path the character's life gets worse and worse. Another element that is very interesting is that the librarian is someone the heroine knew in real life. The group had a lot of ideas who and what the librarian represented, God or a tour guide, we couldn't decide.
After our discussion, I fear I was too harsh on the novel on my initial reading. I think why I was originally so hard on it was because everyone just raved about the novel. I would recommend it.
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