zhliu0124 reviewed The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an …
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3 stars
Who can get into this Midnight Library?
I found this book is dull to read. But there are some interesting ideas. One of them is that why Nora entered this library. Who is given the chance to visit this library?
The key idea of the book is that you have made so many mistakes in your life and you want a chance to reverse them, in the hope of having a better life. Everybody makes mistakes; Our lives are made of a series of mistakes and the lessons we have learned from. The mistakes are our signature. More importantly, not a single mistake in our lives is isolated. We can always find the “roots” of a mistake from many mistakes we have made before. So correcting one mistake means changing a series of mistakes and therefore our identity. Who will want to eliminate his/her existence completely? Only the people do not want to live. So only the people who are trying to suicide have the chance to enter the Midnight Library. There is no admittance to those who even only love themselves a little.
We do not need the Book of Regrets. What we should carry is the Book of Lessons We have learned from Our Lives. Love ourselves, look forward, and do our best.
I found this book is dull to read. But there are some interesting ideas. One of them is that why Nora entered this library. Who is given the chance to visit this library?
The key idea of the book is that you have made so many mistakes in your life and you want a chance to reverse them, in the hope of having a better life. Everybody makes mistakes; Our lives are made of a series of mistakes and the lessons we have learned from. The mistakes are our signature. More importantly, not a single mistake in our lives is isolated. We can always find the “roots” of a mistake from many mistakes we have made before. So correcting one mistake means changing a series of mistakes and therefore our identity. Who will want to eliminate his/her existence completely? Only the people do not want to live. So only the people who are trying to suicide have the chance to enter the Midnight Library. There is no admittance to those who even only love themselves a little.
We do not need the Book of Regrets. What we should carry is the Book of Lessons We have learned from Our Lives. Love ourselves, look forward, and do our best.