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2021_bookish_experience#2(January)

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 MATT HAIG - "Midnight Library" " Nora Seed feels useless. Her cat is dead, her brother doesn’t seem to be interested in her, and she has been fired: nobody needs her. Late one evening, she tries to kill herself. But instead of death, what Nora finds is a library in which each volume represents a version of her life where she made different choices. The possibilities are numberless. There is a Nora who became a rock star, another who has won Olympic medals, another living aboard an Arctic research vessel; some versions are mothers, wives, orphans; famous and influential, or not. All she has to do to step into that life is open the book. If she finds a good life, she can stay; the difficulty lies in deciding “whether a life could really be judged from just a few minutes after midnight on a Tuesday”. The foundation of the idea is the many worlds theory, in which a new universe blossoms from every choice and decision. It’s a beautiful concept, but  Matt Haig  doesn’t explai

2021_bookish_experience#1(January)

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 LIANE MORIARTY - "Three wishes" Three Wishes  is about the three Kettle sisters – Cat, Gemma and Lyn  – who also happen to be triplets. The book starts with the eyewitness accounts of bystanders who witness the triplets have a raucous dinner in a Sydney restaurant. The dinner ends with a violent argument and one sister throwing a fork at her pregnant sister, impaling her stomach. The fork thrower then passes out from the shock. Just like the bystanders, the reader has no idea what this is all about and which sister is the culprit. Three Wishes  then plunges into the lives of the Kettle sisters, who it turns out were celebrating their thirty-fourth birthday on the day of the incident. You learn about their family, their love lives (or lack of), their pasts, hopes and their loving, but tempestuous, sibling relationship. Lyn is the successful sister and tightly wound. Cat is passionate and liable to explode at any moment. Gemma is quirky, dreamy and unable to commit to anything