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achedglin 's review for:
The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
This is a lovely, high readable book that reminds me a little bit of those I've read by John Berendt. There's ostensibly a true crime element to it, but that's the least essential part of the tale. Orlean lovingly reports on the library as an institution's present, recreates its past, and ruminates on its future, using Los Angeles's library as its specific fulcrum to discuss these ideas. I'd highly recommend it for book and library lovers everywhere. If your primary interest is in the 1986 Los Angeles library fire, or Harry Peak (the arson suspect) himself, only then may the book not meet your expectations.