I’ll read nearly any book with a library/bookshop in it even if it’s in a genre (romance) not normally my jam. The one downside to knowing it’s a romance kind of novel is that there’s usually a premature realization that things are all going to work out. This was one of those “two stories converge” novels where one story takes place in the past and one is taking place pretty much nowadays. I liked the bones of this story a lot, some of the implementation a little less so. There is a lot of trauma (domestic abuse, involuntary commitment) as a backdrop which can be a tough read, as well as people wearing white gloves to read old books which always makes my librarian brain nuts.