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Matt Haig

Matt Haig was born in Sheffield, England in 1975. He writes books for both adults and children, often blending the worlds of domestic reality and outright fantasy, with a quirky twist. His bestselling novels are translated into 28 languages. The Guardian has described his writing as 'delightfully weird' and the New York Times has called him 'a novelist of great talent' whose writing is 'funny, riveting and heartbreaking'. His novels for adults are The Last Family in England, narrated by a labrador and optioned for film by Brad Pitt; The Dead Fathers Club (2006), an update of Hamlet featuring an 11-year-old boy; The Possession of Mr Cave (2008), about a man obsessed with his daughter's safety, and The Radleys (2010) which won Channel 4's TV Book Club public vote and was shortlisted for a Galaxy National Book Award (UK). The film rights to all his adult novels have been sold. His next adult novel is The Humans (2013). His multi-award winning popular first novel for children, Shadow Forest, was published in 2007 and its sequel, The Runaway Troll, in 2009. His most recent children's novel is To Be A Cat (2012).
years of life: 3 July 1975 present

Quotes

Cindy Michellahas quotedlast year
Life is never perfect. And I still get depressed from time to time. But I’m at a better place. The pain is never as bad. I’ve found out who I am. I’m happy. Right now, I am happy. The storm ends. Believe me.
b6233500693has quoted2 years ago
You will one day experience joy that matches this pain. You will cry euphoric tears at the Beach Boys, you will stare down at a baby’s face as she lies asleep in your lap, you will make great friends, you will eat delicious foods you haven’t tried yet, you will be able to look at a view from a high place and not assess the likelihood of dying from falling. There are books you haven’t read yet that will enrich you, films you will watch while eating extra-large buckets of popcorn, and you will dance and laugh and have sex and go for runs by the river and have late-night conversations and laugh until it hurts. Life is waiting for you. You might be stuck here for a while, but the world isn’t going anywhere. Hang on in there if you can. Life is always worth it.
📚has quoted2 years ago
You are on guard to the point of collapse every single moment, while desperately trying to keep afloat, to breathe the air that the people on the bank all around you are breathing as easily as anything.

Impressions

dariabutdariashared an impression2 years ago
💡Learnt A Lot
🎯Worthwhile
👍Worth reading

wow! that's everything i can say after i finally finished reading it. in general, it took me more than three months to read it, but actually, i was reading it only for a couple of days throughout those months. at first, i dropped it off because it was so complicated to read those first chapters about nora's intentions and decisions on her life. her mood was overwhelming for me, so i literally couldn't keep reading it.

do i regret it? well, no. the author had taught me not to regret anything because it doesn't mean that i would miss something really good.

i always knew that i would finish it one day and that day is finally here. there are quite contradictive reviews and personally, i still think that maybe that hype around the book, even a year later, is a wee bit overrated. the idea of the book is actually amazing! it provides so many crucial thoughts, philosophy and quantum physics references, but the plot itself was in my opinion, so slow and dry.

along the line, somewhere in the middle of the book i had that thought that maybe i should have just dropped it again and put it on the shelf of"DNF". i also had a thought that in the end, it would again all be connected to the idea of finding love. and i'm extremely glad that the final thought of the main heroine wasn't about that, rather it was completely concentrated on the perks of being alive and live that precious life of yours.

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    Matt Haig
    The Midnight Library
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  • An-nisa Pratiwishared an impression2 years ago
    🔮Hidden Depths
    🎯Worthwhile

    Mat haig book's never failed to bring tears on my eyes. Tear of hope, tear of realisation and tear of joy for reading his work. Wonderful.

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    The Comfort Book
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  • Carolina J.shared an impression7 months ago
    👍Worth reading

    Lectura qué te atrapa. Algunas partes me parecieron demasiada descripción. Más allá de eso me gustó la historia.

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    The Midnight Library
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