![]() ![]() ![]() Nina herself hates forgetting things, and knows an impossible amount of trivia facts in every category.Īt home with her cat Phil, Nina obsesses over her planner and her visualization board, filled with inspiration quotes and pictures. The owner of Knight’s, Liz, reminds Nina to dress nice for someone named Mestophles, and it is revealed that Nina is a part of a Trivia club that has been banned from multiple places for winning too much. This developed a type of dependance on books, as Nina uses them to escape her loneliness. Later, she was diagnosed with ADHD and was encouraged by her school librarian to read many books and enjoy her creativity. Louise, who acted as a mother to Nina, because her own daughter, Candice, only visited a few times a year. The narrator reveals that Nina is the only child of a single mother, born of an affair with a man Nina does not know. When Nina refuses, the woman says most people’s lives are not as boring as Nina’s and leaves. She works with a stubborn woman who wants to return Pride and Prejudice after hating it. ![]() The story begins in a neighborhood in Los Angeles called Larchmont, where the hero of the novel Nina works in a bookstore called Knight’s. The following version of this novel was used to make this study guide: Waxman, Abbi. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Midnight Library is out now in the UK and America. "A brilliant premise and great fun to have so many stories within one book" Daily Mail "Haig is one of the most inspirational popular writers on mental health of our age and, in his latest novel, he has taken a clever, engaging concept and created a heart-warming story that offers wisdom in the same deceptively simple way as Mitch Albom's best tales" "Clever, emotional and thought-inspiring" Drawing on maxims, memoir and the inspirational lives of others, these meditations offer new ways of seeing ourselves and the world. "A beautiful book to get lost in" Zoe Ball The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better. "Amazing and utterly beautiful, The Midnight Library is everything you'd expect from the genius storyteller who is Matt Haig" Joanna Cannon "An uplifting, poignant novel about regret, hope and second chances" David Nicholls "A beguiling read, filled with warmth and humour, and a vibrant celebration of the power of books to change lives." ![]() ![]() To Engel, tearing out the roses in favor of tanks represents the Nazis’ immorality-they are, after all, willing to destroy innocent, beautiful things and replace them with symbols of oppression and violence. In a conversation with Maddie, Engel notes that the square in Ormaie used to be filled with beautiful, blooming roses-but when the Nazis arrived, they tore all the roses out so they could park trucks and tanks in the square. The Resistance is fighting to take down the Nazis, who have invaded France-an innately hopeful goal.īoth Anna Engel and the rose-grower position actual roses as symbols of innocence and beauty. Like most Resistance circuits, it’s named for its oldest and most powerful member’s profession, which in this case happens to be growing roses. This symbolism first shows up in the name of Julie’s Resistance circuit, which is known as the Damask Circuit. The roses Maddie encounters in and around Ormaie represent hope, beauty, and innocence. ![]() Note to Amadeus von Linden from Nikolaus Ferber. ![]() |