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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) 10,166 exemplar
How to Stop Time (2017) 2,776 exemplar
The Humans (2013) 2,411 exemplar
Reasons to Stay Alive (2015) 1,391 exemplar
The Radleys (2010) 1,125 exemplar
Notes on a Nervous Planet (2018) — Berättare, vissa utgåvor771 exemplar
The Dead Fathers Club (2006) 758 exemplar
The Comfort Book (2021) 630 exemplar
A Boy Called Christmas (2015) 553 exemplar
The Last Family in England (2004) 394 exemplar
The Girl Who Saved Christmas (2016) 297 exemplar
The Possession of Mr. Cave (2008) 191 exemplar
Father Christmas and Me (2017) 134 exemplar
To Be A Cat (2012) 117 exemplar
The Truth Pixie (2018) 90 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) 31 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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Haunted: Ghost Stories to Chill Your Blood (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 31 exemplar

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Newton is a good dog.

While the "we only see beauty because we also feel hurt and death" message is a bit kitschy, and certainly - it rings a bit too close to "there is no light without shadow" to me - it's nonetheless an important message. Haig does a good job of recognizing the reality and the beauty of being human despite our many imperfections.

Still, I couldn't really find myself getting into this book much, so three stars it is.
 
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VerixSilvercrow | 148 andra recensioner | Mar 27, 2024 |
Trigger warning for mental health and suicide.
½
 
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dcoward | 436 andra recensioner | Mar 25, 2024 |
This book was thoroughly okay. It was written very well and the concept was fun. But the story line was just a little flat. I felt like it was going to go somewhere and then just never quite did for me. Still a good and quick read though.
 
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teejayhanton | 134 andra recensioner | Mar 22, 2024 |
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.
… (mer)
½
 
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novelcommentary | 134 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2024 |

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Medlemmar
22,459
Popularitet
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Betyg
3.8
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ISBN
692
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