Matt Haig

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2,177 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · The Midnight Train by Matt Haig with Matt Haig · 28 May 2026 podcast

What got me back into books was rereading.

At the time, I couldn't even like watch TV without having a panic attack because everything was like overstimulating.

Couldn't listen to the radio, couldn't do anything.

Books were like the quietest, easiest, most comforting way for me to sort of like build my mind back again.

Do it, say it, be better, apologise, all those things.

And we're famously so bad at it.

You know, like Mexico has a whole day where we just celebrate it and get drunk and think about it.

And we are so bad at it.

And you're exactly right.

I feel like, and especially like after sort of like suicide attempt at 24.

And then after that, for a little while, I just thought how ridiculous is it?

How hilariously ridiculous that we have all these finite little worries about car keys or emails.

And then, you know, when there's this big macro thing, which we don't ever talk about.

And I feel like books are the way we can legitimately talk.

speed through a life yeah speed through a life and get that perspective because i think look there's a great book it looks incredibly cheesy from the cover but the five regrets of the dying oh yeah yeah bronnie weir who was a palliative care nurse and she spent a lot of time in hospices researching and talking to people and the five regrets of dying i can't

remember exactly but it was basically work related yeah so it's too much time spent working that kind of thing yeah yeah it's like too much time working not enough time saying i love you basically yeah essentially and we kind of know it as soon as you draw any attention to it but we don't you know we're encouraged not to you know our fears about existential things just become turned into industries

So you have the anti-aging industry because you don't want to think about death.

And, you know, so it's always a way to sort of commercialise everything.

So we don't actually think or engage with things.

Like it would probably be cheaper and healthier instead of like the anti-aging industry to actually just sit down, read novels and just sort of think about it.

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