The Library Book, by Susan Orlean
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The Library Book by Susan Orlean
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
On the back cover:
"On the morning of April 29, 1986, a disastrous fire broke out in the Los Angeles Public Library. By the time it was extinguished, the fire had destroyed or damaged more than a million books. Over thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone intentionally set fire to the library-and, if so, who?"
Susan Orlean, "award-winning New Yorker reporter," in this amazing work of investigative journalism, tries to find out. But this book is more than the story of the her investigation, it is the story of the Los Angeles Public Library, and libraries in history, and the US, and of librarians and how libraries "remain (and must remain) an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country." This is also a love story--of Orlean's love love and passion for libraries books and knowledge, and the many ways to find knowledge--and, as a I read, my own love and passion for libraries and books and knowledge. And, I think, for so many of the readers of this book.
Highly recommended: for readers, for book lovers, for library lovers, for those of us who still mourn the loss of the Library of Alexandria.
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The Library Book by Susan OrleanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
On the back cover:
"On the morning of April 29, 1986, a disastrous fire broke out in the Los Angeles Public Library. By the time it was extinguished, the fire had destroyed or damaged more than a million books. Over thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone intentionally set fire to the library-and, if so, who?"
Susan Orlean, "award-winning New Yorker reporter," in this amazing work of investigative journalism, tries to find out. But this book is more than the story of the her investigation, it is the story of the Los Angeles Public Library, and libraries in history, and the US, and of librarians and how libraries "remain (and must remain) an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country." This is also a love story--of Orlean's love love and passion for libraries books and knowledge, and the many ways to find knowledge--and, as a I read, my own love and passion for libraries and books and knowledge. And, I think, for so many of the readers of this book.
Highly recommended: for readers, for book lovers, for library lovers, for those of us who still mourn the loss of the Library of Alexandria.
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