This was a fun and lighthearted read. I think the best way to describe it is as like a slice of life vibe. I enjoyed it overall. I didn't like people's reaction to the librarian being big, it felt a bit fatphobic. The characters' issues also felt solved a little too easily. As someone who's suffered from mental illness for years, I know that simply trying to think of things from a different POV doesn't fix everything for me. But it was still nice to read. I haven't read a lot of Japanese literature so it was interesting! It did have a slightly surreal almost but not quite magical realism vibe with the librarian. I liked the idea of this community centre/ library being so important to so many different kinds of people. My mum was a librarian when I grew up and I spent a lot of time in them so I got to see how important they are first hand so it's nice to see a book about that which traverses continents and cultures.