Podcast Introduction

"So today’s book on this topic has been on my TBR (To Be Read) list for a while now—The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. It’s one of those books you see on the shelf of recommendations at your local bookstore, and your friends have all read it, and the LA Public Library keeps offering it to me on my ebook app (available now for a quick 7 day loan) so I finally gave in and read it."

~ Kimberly Hatch Harrison
A dimly lit, mystical library stretching into the horizon. Rows of towering bookshelves reach into the ceiling, each filled with glowing books. In the center, a 21st century woman is sitting alone, staring at an open book, with glowing paths of alternate realities swirling around her.

The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

Nora Seed, feeling overwhelmed by regret, finds herself in The Midnight Library, a place between life and death where each book represents a different version of her life. Guided by her former school librarian, she explores the lives she could have led, from the mundane to the extraordinary. Haig's novel is an introspective journey into choices, possibility, and the thin line between despair and hope.
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Socratica Reads Podcast

“A writer is a Creator, in the truest sense of the word. They have the power to Create living, breathing, thinking people who continue to live in our minds long after we close the book. Tell me Elizabeth Bennett isn’t a real person. I could tell you all about her, and predict how she would act in a given situation, and what she would say.”

Kimberly Hatch Harrison

Childhood’s End

In Childhood's End, Earth is visited by the mysterious Overlords, benevolent beings who usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. But as humanity flourishes under their guidance, unsettling questions about the price of this utopia begin to emerge. Clarke's vision of the future is as much a meditation on the loss of human potential as it is on the dawn of a new evolutionary era.
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