:(ĭespite my personal regret, I would still recommend this book, because it was a lovely reading experience for most of the time. It felt, like the author suddenly grew tired of it all and just dumped that hasty ending on the reader. You need a completely different mindset & mood, which you are just not up to. It's like you were listening to a Mozart Symphony and after the conclusion of the 3rd movement, the track suddenly changes to, let's say, Schönberg. Well, I won't call it cheap, but it was just sooooo, sooooo out of tune and it made me disappointed. The story was suddenly cut without proper resolution and out-of-the-blue I was dragged back to the present, some 50 years later, where 2 characters, grown old, met and then kind of obscurely discussed what had happpened back then. And then came the ending or epilogue or part 2 as the author called it. The story was set at the end of the 1950s and I got totally immersed in it, with its small town, its bittersweet, though at the same time very humdrum storylines, the library and the characters: both the sympathetic and the nasty ones.
There were parts where I would have given 5 stars without hesitation, but the end was spoiled for me. I mean a book about books and a children's library. Strictly speaking, this is more of a 3,5 star read when all is said and done despite my loving the story and the setting.
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