đź“šBook Review: The Midnight Library
It’s been decades, I think, since I stayed up past midnight reading a non-medical book, simply for the joy of reading it. Twelve-year-old Emilie and I reconnected one night recently as I fell into the world of Nora Seed.
Nora Seed is a woman that many of us can relate to: depressed, directionless, and a bit self-sabotaging.
Early in the book she arrives at a choice, and she chooses to open the door and walk through, the one many of us have stood before at one point or another: the door marked “suicide.” Suicide is death but it’s more than that, too; it’s death by decision, a way for people who feel they have no control to finally have some.
So we meet Nora, a woman unsatisfied with life, with her meds, with her job, on the night her cat dies.
And I’ll stop here with the particulars, because I won’t give the whole story away. But basically, Nora makes a decision that night, and enters the Midnight Library.
Inside the Library she now has many other decisions to make, which at first is as difficult as building new muscles. She goes on many adventures, all as herself in different lives, and she begins to understand the nature of life, and choice, and personal power.
She lives lives that you can’t wait to escape, and some that will break your heart to leave. Her understanding swells as she realizes that life and death are just transitions, and that really, every breath we have is precious.
Get in alignment with that, and everything else just falls into place.
If you’d care to read, or to gift to someone, you can find it here.
Xo,
Dr. Emilie