In November we met at Nettie's home to discuss Matt Haig's book
"The Midnight Library". This book is about a girl called Norah who
tries to commit suicide because her life has gone south. Her cat has
died, she has lost her job and life seems to have no meaning. She goes
to a library where a librarian guides her to the possibility of choosing
alternate lives that she may have lived. Nora pursues a "multiverse" where
she did become an Olympic swimmer, a rock star, a glaciologist, and had 2 different
married lives. Possibilities were endless but in the end she comes to realize
that her best life is the one she chooses for herself where the point of life
is life itself. We had a great discussion and even had a sharing moment when
each person revealed another life that they may have wanted to live. Maybe
we learned some thing about another person we did not know and that we have
to live this life as best as we can with all it's ups and downs.
Madeleine chose "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguri, a British author.
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