Minding our Mortality: Book Club

“Minding our Mortality” [MoM] events by Here to Honor provide opportunities for contemplative thought and conversation—designated time and space for considering our impermanence in ways that tap into our deepest human longings and shape how we face our finitude.

For our first Book Club gathering of 2025, we will be discussing The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.

A description of this novel is excerpted from Bookshop.org below:

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

In "The Midnight Library," Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

Purchasing from Bookshop.org supports local bookstores as well as Here to Honor.

It is recommended that you read this book prior to our meeting at Neighbor on Tuesday evening, January 28th. Beverages and snacks will be provided.

This is a free event, but you will have the option to make a suggested donation of $10 during the registration process—that would help us cover costs and is greatly appreciated!