The Midnight Library: 感想文

A heart-warming read for the end of year
I listened to the audiobook version (read by Carey Mulligan) which I found to be very soothing and a perfect bedtime activity together with a hot tea. It was an enjoyable listen, a nice light heart-warming read for a seemingly heavy topic. It was kind of like therapy.

I picked up the book because I liked the title and I had a feeling I could relate to the main character from the synopsis (Nora seeds wants to die. When she attempts suicide, she ends up in a world between life and death with a library where every book is a peek into an alternate life. She explores lives she could've chosen to live, tries out paths she wished she had chosen, trying to undo her regrets. Anyone who's ever gone through a phase filled with regrets and a rabbit hole of what-ifs can definitely relate to Nora.

In one of her lives, she is a glaciologist, a field I was personally obsessed with for a while and a profession I vaguely considered (even applied to a couple of programs). Realizing a lot of my unmet wishes weren't so original after all was kind of humbling.

It reminded me of the Alchemist in that the whole thing felt like a metaphor. I felt like some of the references and quotes used were a little cliched for my personal taste but there's nothing wrong with that I guess.