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This quarter’s book is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. You can put traditional formats of the book on hold using MidPointe’s eCatalog.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Week 1
In the world of the Midnight Library, the books take on the role of portals into alternate realities. Do you think the role books played in the Midnight Library is similar to the role they play in your own life?
Nora experiences a number of alternate lives in which she achieves a great deal of success in one area of her life at the expense of all the rest—be it in music, swimming, or polar exploration. Do you think it’s possible to reach fame and fortune in a single field and still maintain balance with other areas of your life?
What was your overall impression of the book? What was your favorite quote & why?
Week 2
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?
Every time Nora goes to one of these realities, there’s usually a lot of good but also something bad. Whether it’s her brother dying in the rock star storyline or her mother passing away alone when Nora kept going with swimming. What do you think the author was trying to say there with how each of these concepts had huge consequences?
Did you find any of the characters particularly likeable of unlikeable?
