After careful consideration following reading The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig, I have decided to give this fantasy/science fiction book a 5/5 rating for its beautifully illustrated struggle of the everyday existentialism everyone faces and the choices we make can completely change our lives for the better or worse, but it’s never too late to do the right thing. During this book, I was immediately starting to feel anxious and indecisive during the main character's quick and sudden descent into one of her episodes of situational depression. But this time she makes a decision she can never erase. To end her life. At this moment I closed the book, rethinking my poor methods of finding books. However, when I decided to give it another chance I found out the truth. That this book was deeper than I could ever imagine.
Continuing where I left off, I immediately now became intrigued as our main character stumbles into her brain's perception of the unfathomable. To try on different lives, like going to the mall, and see what fits her best. As this curious individual wandered around the corn maze trying to find the center, her center, I became fully absorbed by this book. I found myself staying up late every night to find out what happens next thinking, “just one more chapter, just one more”, but when my mom comes upstairs to hang laundry up and sees I’m still awake she becomes equally concerned for my sleep habits and grateful that her little boy is finally reading a book, AND ENJOYING IT!
This book, along with my church, helped me through a really tough time after my grandmother and grandfather both died in march/may by showing me that no matter how many bad decisions you make in life you can always turn it around and that perseverance to live is the way through. My mother proved it because she was told by a teacher she should drop out of med school and now she’s a CNM. A very wise person once said to me that you can’t describe the joy, absolute pure joy, that is life, you have to live it. These are exactly what I needed during this tough time and I think it might be the godsend that others, who are going through a tough time, could need too.
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