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I am sure this kit would be helpful to any group or book club that is reading The Midnight Library. There were many thought provoking questions and prompts for discussion.

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This wasn’t the book in its entirety. This is more bookclub based and a Q&A regarding the author’s mindset when writing the book. I am more interested in picking this book up now that I’ve seen this glimpse into the the book itself.

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"Let's be kind to the people in our existence."

I love the "Five People You Meet in Heaven" vibe this book gave me throughout my read. This book will definitely open your eyes to different aspects of your life you may have not noticed before. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is wanting to be exposed to looking at life from many different points of view, and seeing all the many possibilities!

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This was…. Different? I guess you would say fantasy meets contemporary literature with a setting in England. A bit all over the place, the plot is choppy. Perhaps I missed some analogies, but it wasn’t my cuppa.

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I loved this book and the questions were very well laid out. It was easy to talk about and I would totally get more of these for my book club in the future

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This is a helpful guide/kit to The Midnight Library. If you’re a fan of this story and would like to discuss more profoundly about this with some friends, this is for you.

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Did not realize this was a kit. Returned without using the materials as I wanted to read the book and am not interested in the book club kit.
I did borrow the actual book from my library and found it to be an unbelievable premise.

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I loved this book so much. When Nora has given up and decided that her life is meaningless, she tries to end it all. Traveling to the Midnight Library, where her kind, old, school librarian, Mrs. Elm guides her through the aisles of her life to see which iteration would best suit her. This is such a profound story of mental health, resilience, and love. Some books find you in the right time of your life, and this was one of them. So outstanding and unforgettable!

Thank you NetGalley for this copy in exchange for an honest review.

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Not sure about the added pictures? This was different than what I thought it was going to be, my fault for not recognizing this is for a book club but still an odd little book.

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Maybe that's what lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself' - @mattzhaig , The Midnight Library.
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Its very rare that I quote this much from a book but a book of this magnitude of positivity mingled with truth ( which is harsh ) has left me dumbfounded. I have loved the book to bits.
Nora finding no way of respite in life decides to end it and lands herself in the infinite possibilities of The Midnight Library lying between life and death. There Mrs Elm guides her to the book of her regrets and if had beens of her lif and as she chooses each one and moves in and out of a plethora of emotions and lives out numbers of her choices and different lives , she seems to be not satisfied in any. In some she s a geologist, an international rockstar, an Olympic gold medalist swimmer while in some married to who she declined, father is alive, mother is alive, good terms with brother but she ebbs out of all of them to land into the library of choices again!
Infact she emerges into her best thought life but she ebbs out of it too! Why? What is it so of life?
The answer for me is 'The only way to learn is to live'
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After reading this want to all the books by Mr Haig and if you need any positivity in your life right now, dont look further!

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Best read yet!!! LOVED IT!!!!! Will most definitely be a classic one day a very easy and addictive read

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Make sure you read the title, this is not the actual book, but worth getting if you are reading this book and hosting book club, welcome to my world!. It will now appear as if I am learned and have done ample research on thought provoking questions. A win for me, world domination next! Not sure I needed the photos, but not complaining.

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I’m an idiot and heartbroken. I’ve wanted to read this ‘book’ for so long so I’ve been looking everywhere (everywhere legal of course) so I can to try to get a copy. I’ve looked everywhere! Tried Goodreads giveaways way back, nope. Tried NG and EW, nope. Tried my local library for an ebook because I don’t have a place to live permanently so I’m all about ebooks and right now I’m in quarantine, yay 🥳😑 I literally just signed up for a library membership for a copy of “The Maid” and 3 other titles, but it’s a 22 week wait. I just left their site looking for the book that goes with this and there are 35 before me so about 35 weeks out??!! Ugh 😩 lastly I tried Amazon hoping for Kindle Unlimited miracle, nope. I literally have a dollar and change in my pocketbook and cannot work anymore due to extremely poor health issues so that’s also, nope.

Why am I sharing this? Because I feel like an idiot for seeing this cover then “read now” and not paying attention to anything other than my facial expression of excitement 😲😳 <——sort of looked like that and the wind 💨 was knocked right out of my lungs 🫁 when I saw it was the book club kit. I’m going to cry 😭 hard after I save this. This is my life. Every single nook and cranny to be found…….this is the kind of thing that’s taken over my once always positive life outlook. I used to be a very active part of this fantastic bookish world……welcomed in with opened arms and drowning in books by the hundreds. Now I’m old, disabled, homeless, and recovering from 20 years of abuse and a crazy divorce which the abuse continues 5 1/2 years later.

‘SO’, now that I’ve typed out all that stuff most people don’t care about and because in this world it’s just my dog and me, for the most part……….I really needed to vent and since the last thing that just broke my heart was about a book, I figured why not vent here. This thread is so long I’m banking on it never being seen by others readers. It’s pathetic, but when you have everything systematically taken from you in brutal ways…….ya kinda just stop caring about what you say when it’s to a group of people who share the same love for books.

I’m so sorry I jumped and downloaded this without making sure it was the actual book. I’ll delete this from my device. So stupid I am………the search goes on. I’ve resorted to Microsoft rewards points for daily quizzes and searches to put towards Amazon gift cards. 4 days in when I get 13,000 points I’ll have a $10 gift card…….I only have 900 points 😬 for $10. If there’s a lottery for kindle books I hope to win enough to carry me through for a long time to come.

Five stars because it was my mistake and the book is probably a five star read anyway.

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Very helpful for my book club! I enjoyed learning a little about the author as well. This helped us to navigate our first meeting after reading the Midnight library and prompted conversations throughout the night. Awesome!

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wasn't sure what to expect, and although it stated the actual book wasn't included (confusing) I did expect more that a table of contents and several pages of part of a man's pictures. Odd.

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This book club guide is meant to accompany the book when reading in a group. It includes some questions to discuss, and an interview with the author. A very interesting addition to the book.

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This was a very helpful guide for my buddy read on The Midnight Library! If you wanted to read the book and have a discussion about it with friends or a book club, this is the guide for you to help start off that discussion!

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I found the concept of The Midnight Library -- a place where, when one is essentially in limbo after dying in the "real world" but has yet to pass onto a permanent death, can look at the lives of their other selves and can stay in the life that makes them the most happy -- intriguing. However, I think the execution was not entirely what I was hoping it would be. I appreciate how Haig weaves philosophy throughout the book, leaving the reader to be reflective about the lives that we currently lead and COULD lead, as well as thinking about what makes a life and what is the most important to make that life worth living. However, I found the book to be uninteresting at times, but that just may not be the experience of others. Regardless, overall, the book was most entertain as a general interest/fiction book, and I think it would appeal to wide variety of audiences, even if one is not a fantasy reader (which I am not).

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I downloaded this book club kit as I have every intention to read this book in the nearby future in my club. The questions seem all interesting and very much related to the book, so... five stars!

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This Book Club Kit was a great addition to the book The Midnight Library. Besides giving some questions for discussion at book club, it also features a question and answer with the author, Matt Haig, which adds insight into his characters and reasoning behind the writing of this book. Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Library Resources for access to these materials.. #NetGalley #BookClubKit:TheMidnightLibrary

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