State of the Ekat

Well, my professional world is changing again. My employment with the Not-for-Profit has ended. I will not go into details but just say it was not working out on both sides.

But while I am sad, I called my most recent "old boss" since I had still been part-time there. We talked and as much as I hate that I am doing it, I am going back there full time starting Monday. We discussed things that can happen to make me more content there (I don't know that I can use the word happy). So no more working from home but it's back to something I don't have to flounder for 3+ weeks trying to figure things out.

2021 Reading Challenge: A book about do-overs or fresh starts

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Nora is having a hard day. Lost her jobs (both) and her cat died. She looks at her life and sees herself estranged from her brother (her only living relative), her BFF is half way around the world living her best life, and she recently broke up with her boyfriend. What's there to live for?

So she ODs on prescription anti-depressants in an attempt to end her lift.

She wakes up in the Midnight Library. A library where she gets to explore the lives that "could have been". If she had made just a slight change in a choice she made, how would her lift be different? If she finds one that she well and truly wants she can stay. The catch - she is dropped into that life at the exact same date and time as she was escaping - so if she made a choice when she was a teenager - she's dropped into that life at the age of 35 and has to figure the world out, who she is, who she is with, what does she do.

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I found this book eh. The big thing was that Carrie Mulligan was the reader - and if her on screen acting is anything like the narration she did, she totally deserved the Oscar Nomination.

My issue was the actual lives Nora relived. Where she found happiness felt kinda preachy to me.

However, I will say that the prose was lovely. The vignettes on their own were good. I just did not like the OVERALL all that much. But your view may vary



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