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Matt Haig (1) (1975–)

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Matt Haig was born on July 3, 1975 in Sheffield. He attended the University of Hull where he studied English and History. He has since become a British novelist and journalist. He has authored both fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. His non-fiction title "Reasons to Stay Alive" became visa mer a Sunday Times bestseller. His bestselling children's novel, A Boy Called Christmas is now being adapted for film. His other works include: The Last Family in England, The Dead Fathers Club, Shadow Forest, The Possession of Mr. Cave, How to Stop Time and Runaway Troll. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Matt Haig

The Midnight Library (2020) 10,098 exemplar
How to Stop Time (2017) 2,751 exemplar
The Humans (2013) 2,393 exemplar
Reasons to Stay Alive (2015) 1,389 exemplar
The Radleys (2010) 1,123 exemplar
Notes on a Nervous Planet (2018) — Berättare, vissa utgåvor770 exemplar
The Dead Fathers Club (2006) 753 exemplar
The Comfort Book (2021) 629 exemplar
A Boy Called Christmas (2015) 551 exemplar
The Last Family in England (2004) 393 exemplar
The Girl Who Saved Christmas (2016) 295 exemplar
The Possession of Mr. Cave (2008) 189 exemplar
Father Christmas and Me (2017) 135 exemplar
To Be A Cat (2012) 119 exemplar
The Truth Pixie (2018) 89 exemplar
Echo Boy (2014) 81 exemplar
Evie and the Animals (2019) 53 exemplar
A Mouse Called Miika (2021) 46 exemplar
Humans: An A-Z (2014) 30 exemplar
The Truth Pixie Goes to School (2019) 28 exemplar
Evie in the Jungle (2020) 25 exemplar
The Life Impossible (2024) 19 exemplar
A Boy Called Christmas [2021 film] — Författare — 4 exemplar
The Ghost Walk (2012) 4 exemplar
Insanlar (2015) 4 exemplar
Jultomten och jag (2018) 1 exemplar
Julen är räddad (2017) 1 exemplar
Jakten på julen (2021) 1 exemplar
The Lost Prince 1 exemplar

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I first encountered Matt Haig in The Midnight Library which proved to be an interesting premise where a character visited a library between life and death so she could "take out" so to speak a different version of her life, explore the road not taken.
This earlier novel of his also has a unique premise. The main character Tom Hazard is revealed to have lived for over four hundred years. Due to a genetic condition he ages on a scale of about 1 to every 15 years. Haig takes this opportunity to place the narrator in London during Shakespearean days, later sailing with Captain Cook to the Pacific Islands, then in Paris, chatting with F Scott and Zelda and finally teaching history to enlighten phone addicted teenagers. -( I mean who better to teach high school history)- The various historical adventures make for fun reading and ample opportunities for philosophical meandering, but the plot of the novel makes clear that this is not a fun life for the man whose mother was drowned for being a witch since her son did not age. He once had the love of his life and a child, but his condition always made it too dangerous for the ones he loved. So the solution is to never love. This is what he learns from a supposedly wise leader of a group called the albatross society who are the people with this condition who have to change life every eight years in order to escape capture from those who would want to harness this condition for scientific research. So in the current time, when faced with a possible new love, he has to wrestle with the beliefs of the albatross society or with his heart.

Fun read but I wouldn't say a big recommendation to others. In reading a bit about the author I would be interested in an earlier book of his called The Humans. Haig is very open about his struggles with mental health and his book Reasons to Stay Alive may also be of interest.
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Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live?

The first technology to lead to fake news wasn’t the internet, it was the printing press. Books solidified the superstition. Almost everybody believed in witches.

Do you know the way you can tell if a tightrope walker is any good?’ ‘How?’ ‘They’re still alive.’

‘You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don’t hoard them like they are precious. There is always plenty of them to go around.’

The great thing about being in your four hundreds is that you can get the measure of someone pretty quickly.

The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment. And what starts as a doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world.

as if Montaigne himself was also in the room. ‘“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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novelcommentary | 133 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2024 |
You can think of this as a 2020s remix of "It's a Wonderful Life," except that instead of getting to see what her life would be like if she had never been born, our protagonist Nora Seed gets to experience an endless number of lives that she might have lived if she'd made different choices along the way.

The moral of the tale has likewise been updated to reflect today's FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) obsession - instead of "no man is poor who has friends," the lesson here is "don't spend so much time regretting all the opportunities you may have missed out on that you forget to recognize the opportunities you've been given." Because (Haig wants us to understand) happiness, friendship, love, laughter, fear, and joy aren't trim packages that you have to special order - they come included as part of life's base model.

In fact, this whole thing reads more like something from the "This Book Will Save Your Life" genre rather than a novel, even accounting for the magical realism (the alternate lives take the form of books in a metaphysical library) - which isn't necessarily a knock, just an observation. Nora's a bit of sad sack, but not unrelatable, and it's fun to watch how each of her alternative lives plays out. And if these alternative lives come off as a little improbably glamorous, that's just Haig keeping things interesting.

If you're the type that enjoys books that come with a side of affirmation, this is made for you; if you're looking for a pleasant read, you could do worse. Not my particular cup of tea, but I can see why others might perceive this as a whole meal.
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Dorritt | 435 andra recensioner | Mar 16, 2024 |
Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it. Interesting concept but find it dubious that she would be wildly successful in all the other lives she sampled.
 
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corliss12000 | 435 andra recensioner | Mar 16, 2024 |
I listened to this book on Audible. Such a fascinating, heartbreaking, hopeful, beautiful story...so well told, and such a terrific narrator. This is one of the best books I've read in a long time and will be on my list of all-time favorites for sure. Imaginative, courageous, and gorgeously written.
 
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rocketshackgirl | 435 andra recensioner | Mar 13, 2024 |

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