September and October Book Reviews
"Young Girl Reading in the Doorway" by Peter Vilhelm Ilsted, 1913 The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (audiobook) An interesting book that I've been meaning to read for years and glad I finally did. It's a bit of a stretch from my normal genre of books, but it celebrates life in a unique way. It first starts with death -- or at least very close to death. Nora's life is falling apart and her depression is consuming her. She is about to end her life when, in somewhat of a daze or dream, she enters a building she soon finds out is a Midnight Library, where all the books are alternate realities of her life. What would have happened if she'd pursued professional swimming as a teenager as her dad wanted? There's a book for that? What if she would have remained in her brother's band and gone big? There's a book for that too. On and on, Nora is able to experience, literally walking into these stories and visualizing the better life she always imagined, era...
