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In your opinion, what’s truly fulfilling in life?.

What are some of the takeaways from Nora’s journey?.

How will things be different for Nora going forward? What happens next for her?.

What were some of the key realizations that made her want to go back to her original life?.

What did you think about the storyline where Nora marries Ash and has a daughter? Why wasn’t she able to stay in this alternate reality?.

How did it help her move forward with her own life? Let’s talk the significance of Nora realizing this. And that the different realities she chose, were based on hoping for a better outcome for her loved ones.

Throughout the novel, Nora realizes how people blamed her for their own shortcomings.

Why was this such a significant relationship for her?

Let’s now talk about Nora’s relationship with the real-life Mrs.

What do you think the author was trying to say there with how each of these concepts had huge consequences? Whether it’s her brother dying in the rock star storyline or her mother passing away alone when Nora kept going with swimming.

Every time Nora goes to one of these realities, there’s usually a lot of good but also something bad.

Which alternate reality did you find the most interesting?

Nora goes to so many different realities from marrying her ex-boyfriend to studying glaciers.

If you somehow ended up in a place like The Midnight Library, how do you think you would handle it? Would you want to see all the different outcomes that your life could have taken?.

Elm tells Nora how The Midnight Library works, she asks her, what would you have done differently, if you had the chance to redo your regrets? Have you ever thought about if you made a different choice, what your life would be like now? Why did Nora feel this way? Why do you think she felt she had no other option but suicide? Nothing is going right for her and she feels her life is already full of so many regrets.

Let’s start with Nora at the beginning of the novel.

Book Club Questions for The Midnight Library

Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. I loved how the story ended with ( spoiler) Nora playing chess with Mrs. I was surprised by each journey and how there’s always something off with the different paths she could have chosen. I really enjoyed all the different realities that Nora visited. And who’s to say that the choice would have been better? So interesting. And it really allowed the author to pinpoint about how living in the past and full of regrets, is no way to live in your present. But this concept of The Midnight Library is so unique and creative. It’s definitely hard to read at times-especially in the beginning when Nora tries to take her own life.