About the book
My rating: 
The Idea
Imagine! Imagine if you could go back in time and undo the choices you had made. If you could get to live a new life with a different choice. Yes, who would not prefer that? Well, that surreal thing happened.
Somewhere beyond the realm of the living, between life and and death there is a library. In the library there are zillions of books, books of choices. Every time you make a different choice you take your life in a unique direction hence creating a new book. In The Midnight Library, Nora Seed (protagonist) finds her life besmirched constantly musing over the bad choices she have had made to end up in her present state. She wonders how different her her life could have been if she had made different choices in the past. As we all do. But Nora here gets to fulfill her desire and put a stop to her predicament.
My Take
On a serious note,
the book is about self-discovery with an unique approach of first-hand
experience of the many aspirations a person has. All of us have regrets which
we overlook and move on. We tend to forgive ourselves so that the guilt doesn’t
engulf us. This literary work is the testimony though fictitious, to what could
happen if we do not move forward unloading the baggage of regrets. This is the
story of every one of us who gives in to inner evil shutting happiness and
peace out! But then it’s yet another choice which leads to an alternative life
with an equally transformative life full of opportunities. One might feel
lacking in one or the other aspect in life, the gist of the book is to make us
aware that it’d be a wise decision for us to take up this one life we have and
make it a better one! My takeaway was that the road to self-discovery goes
through self-love for “If you aim to be something you are not, you will
always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be
the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work
hard at it.” As the only way to learn is to live, be so much lively that
you never ever stumble upon a book of regrets of your own.
Why 3.5 ⭐
I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.
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