This month we’ll be discussing The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.  Gloria Alexander will lead the discussion.  Join us on the lower level of the Martha Canfield Library in Arlington on Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 12 noon.  We open the side door to make it possible to enter the meeting room without going through the library upstairs.

Here is an excerpt from a review of The Midnight Library published in the New York Times 

The narrative throughout has a slightly old-fashioned feel, like a bedtime story. It’s an absorbing but comfortable read, imaginative in the details if familiar in its outline. The invention of the library as the machinery through which different lives can be accessed is sure to please readers and has the advantage of being both magical and factual. Every library is a liminal space; the Midnight Library is different in scale, but not kind. And a vision of limitless possibility, of new roads taken, of new lives lived, of a whole different world available to us somehow, somewhere, might be exactly what’s wanted in these troubled and troubling times.