“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it,” Mrs. Elm consoles Nora in “The Midnight Library.” I’ve read about a hundred books during the past year, and this 288-page novel from 2020 ...

Matt Haig's 'The Midnight Library' truly enlivens the idea that, as you read a book, you traverse into an alternative world, living an imagined life alongside the characters whose actions and thoughts ...