Book #149 of 2024: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig This is a novel that starts off on the wrong foot, bites off way more than it can chew, and ultimately fails to develop any of its ideas into anything distinctive for the genre. It’s by far the worst of the five titles I’ve now …
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Book #78 of 2022: The Humans by Matt Haig This 2013 novel is one part a Douglas Adams-esque assortment of absurdist reflections on humanity, and one part a K-PAX plot of someone who looks like a regular human claiming to actually be an alien, to everyone’s reasonable disbelief. Yet whereas that latter title — which …
Book #244 of 2021: The Comfort Book by Matt Haig I’m not entirely sure how to rate this title, which is basically a loose collection of the pep talks, life lessons, and gentle reminders that author Matt Haig has found helpful in dealing with his anxiety and depression. It’s a self-help book, sort of, and …
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Book #4 of 2021: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig A surprisingly lovely story about a woman who tries to kill herself only to appear in an unearthly library, an afterlife halfway-house full of books describing the parallel lives she might have led. Reading from these volumes takes her into those realities, where she sees …
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Book #45 of 2018: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig There’s a lot of potential to this novel about a man aging at 1/15 the usual rate, but it’s sunk by certain elements that feel barely sketched in. Most glaring is the secret society of people with the narrator’s condition, of whom we only …
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