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For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can change a reader's life.

What are you looking for?

This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most librarians, Komachi has read every book lining her shelves—but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of her library guests. For anyone who walks through her door, Komachi can sense exactly what they’re looking for in life and provide just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it.

Each visitor comes to her library from a different juncture in their careers and dreams, from the restless sales attendant who feels stuck at her job to the struggling working mother who longs to be a magazine editor. The conversation that they have with Sayuri Komachi—and the surprise book she lends each of them—will have life-altering consequences.

With heartwarming charm and wisdom, What You Are Looking For Is in the Library is a paean to the magic of libraries, friendship and community, perfect for anyone who has ever found themselves at an impasse in their life and in need of a little inspiration.

Starting this one a bit early!

OK :) I'm going to start in a while. Sorry about that

No worries! I actually only got a few pages into it before I got pulled into doing some errands and haven't gotten a chance to get back into it yet lol

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(view spoiler)[ As someone also currently feeling uninspired with her retail job, I find Tomoka to be very relatable. Maybe the solution she finds will be a solution for me too lol (hide spoiler)]

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(view spoiler)[ I've never heard of that trick with the conditioner. I wonder if it actually works? (hide spoiler)]

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(view spoiler)[ How mean! Comparing her to the ghostbuster marshmallow 😭 (hide spoiler)]

Hoping to start by tomorrow :)

I think I'm going to dnf this for now. It's just not the vibe I'm feeling right now. I'll have to give it another try some other time, but there's just too many other things I want to read right now.

I hope you enjoy your time with it though!

oh ok!
Thank you!