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The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
While this book begins as an investigation into the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Central Library (that destroyed or damaged more than 1,000,000 books), it evolves into a beautiful tribute to libraries, librarians, and books - now and throughout history. The descriptions of the architecture of the Central Library, and the storied histories of its quirky/rebellious/intelligent librarians, were almost as captivating as the chapter on burning books/libraries throughout history.
But if you only have time for a bit of this book, make sure you read the chapter about the actual fire of the library. Orlean's personification of the flames brings the fire to incredible life and should be used in English classrooms everywhere as an example of that literary device.
But if you only have time for a bit of this book, make sure you read the chapter about the actual fire of the library. Orlean's personification of the flames brings the fire to incredible life and should be used in English classrooms everywhere as an example of that literary device.