A review by deschatjes
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt

3.0

Part of my summer reads of books with librarians or libraries. So I got quite into the story as a fellow librarian and introvert & just when it got interesting it went on a wild detour about his childhood running away from home which frankly wasn’t all that interesting albeit having a whimsical lilt - could have been edited by 80% and then the rest of the book back in present day was anticlimactic without any of the details you really wanted to know…