The Life Impossible: A Novel

I loved the book and some of them lessons learned

Enjoyed this very much. Joanna Lumley does a great job of reading it. I also enjoyed Haig's previous book, the Midnight Library. I find it interesting that he writes with female protagonists. Not many men can write women well but in retrospect perhaps he works with the more androgynist aspects and that is why it works. Haig brings in so many different aspects to the book - mathematics, astrophysics, marine biology, mythology and so on. Very impressive the way they are weaved together into a wonderful story.

I skimmed the last half of this book as it seemed to grow more farfetched as it went. There are nuggets of philosophical truth within the pages, but a lot of clutter to read through to find them. I found the book very disappointing.

If you’re expecting Midnight Library level writing, you’re going to be disappointed. The writing is similar to his style in The Humans, which makes for odd transitions, a choppy story about all the mundane details and a backstory about everything. I pulled a few great quotes, but other than that it was just a weird book. Book #104 in 2024

A great message in the story.