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“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it,” Mrs. Elm consoles Nora in “The Midnight Library.” I’ve read about a hundred books during the past year, and this 288-page novel from 2020 ...

We first meet Nora Seed, “nineteen years before she decides to die”, as she plays chess in the school library with Mrs Elm, the matter-of-fact school librarian. Nora, who is treated ‘like a mistake in ...

Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library gets depression spot on. A defining feature of the condition is its capacity to skew perception, to put a distorting lens over one’s vision of the world so that ...