Regrets.
Review in Turkish:
Bunu okuduktan sonra kesinlikle eskiden olduğum kişi değilim. Bu noveleti bitirdikten sonra neler hissettiğim hakkında binlerce sayfa yazabilirim. İçimde nasıl bir boşluk hissettiğimi, sanki kitabın ana karakteri benmişim gibi nasıl yıkıldığımı... Ah Raif...
Bazen yapmadıklarımızın pişmanlığı daha sertdir yaptıklarımızdan. Ve korkaklık da bunun en büyük yardımcısı...
Şu anda size abartıyormuşum gibi gelebilir ama bu kitapta beni hem iyileştiren hem de mahveden bir şey var. Belki kendimden bir parça gördüğüm için, belki hiç yaşayamadığım bir duygunu bana en derin şekilde his ettirdiği için. Kim bilir?
Review in English:
I'm definitely not the same person I used to be after reading this. I could write thousands of pages about how I felt after finishing this novella at the school. About how emptiness hit me, about how devastated I became as if I was the main character of the book myself... Ah Raif...
Sometimes the regrets about things we didn't do are even harsher than the regrets we did. And cowardice is the biggest contributor to this...
It might sound like I'm exaggerating it to you right now but there's something about this book that both healed me and ruined me at the same time. Maybe because I saw a piece of myself in it, maybe because it made me feel a deep emotion I've never experienced before. Who knows?
“There’s a reason that things exist in this world.”
A meditation on ephemerality, regrets, death, the meaning of life and…. cats? Makes sense. Personally though, if i were to face the same situation, i’d simply make all men disappear from the world and then die peacefully knowing that i’ve just made the world a better place.
PS: eleman kitapta asiri kafa aciyor.
Reklam
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices… Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.
Everyone has a midnight library.Edebiyat
Between life and death... Everyone has a lot of choices and possibilities to live. This library is full of these possibilities that every person has in her/ his own life. It is special and part of you. You need to find out which life you should choose and just live it while opening the fitting book and reading the first sentence there.Even if you have a chance to live the all possibilities, still it is hard to find the suitable one. You are just a slider between the lives.Through these views of lives in each book, you just learn that it is about choosing life instead of death and then you start writing your own future with three words "I am alive".
We are not as lucky as Nora. We need to find out the joy of happiness and wish of life in the library inside us. Fire the book of regrets. Accept your life as it is. If it is darkness, you will find something within the darkness. Hope. Potential.
It is easy to understand and read this book. Sometimes it can be boring because the writer mentioned lots of possible lives and tried to create complexity. Still you can read it.The message is strong.
10/10
Beğendi
It would be totally unfair if I didn't have a single review about my #1 favourite book so far. It's been over a year since I've read it. And it's still fresh in my mind. After reading a quick summary I've decided to write a review about the book.
The Midnight Library is a matter of regrets. It's about making wrong decisions at the time. It's about being unsatisfied about life. It's about feeling unwanted. It's about: Could I make things turn out any better?
What is special about this book is that it came right when I needed it the most. I guess this is the factor that makes the book #1 for me. Unlike many other books, I never looked up for the page that I'm at. It just flowed through.
I believe that my feeling of emptiness was not special to me. Every person undergoes similar situations in their lives. But The Midnight Library may help people gain some aspect of their lives. To help them understand why the best life you could ever live in is the current life you are at.
In conclusion this book totally deserves to be chosen as the best book by Goodreads in 2020.
The only way to learn is to live”
Fuck, this book hit me so hard. I finished this book a few days ago and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. It has one of my favorite themes or tropes in a book, where we follow a main character who at the beginning of the story is very depressed and possible suicidal and doesn't see the point of life, but then slowly throughout the story begins to build an admiration toward humanity and life. This book was so beautifully written and I love the way this book asks the question: what is the best way to live?
“Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices… Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”
It's a really cool concept, that between life and death you enter the midnight library, where you get the opportunity to see how your life would've been different had you made different decisions. I think a lot about this, what my life would be like had I made different choices and wondering if I'm the happiest version of myself? This book forces you to ask hard questions, like what makes a life worth living? And are your dreams for yourself really something you want? I love the way this book talks about regrets and how most of the time our regrets are a load of bullshit of things that are out of our control and they are causing a major burden on our life.
“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worth-while.
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