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The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
3.5 stars. I expected a kind of literary who-dunnit, and while there was a bit of that, this book was really a love letter to libraries. I suspect that any reader who has ever worked in a library will spend the whole read nodding along at the observations on the challenges and joys of working in or running a library, particularly one with as high a patronage as the Los Angeles library. For someone like me who has not worked in a library (but might like to one day?) a lot of the information about work done in or by libraries was surprising or eye-opening. My eyes glazed over a bit during some of the history and architecture chapters. With no emotional connection to this particular library, those details missed the mark a bit with me. Fiction-lover-me, of course, wishes there had been more about the mystery of the arson, and more resolution. Stupid real life.
But it's all okay, because even without that final knot getting tied, the story was fascinating and a very enjoyable read. (Not to mention that the book itself is SO pretty.)
But it's all okay, because even without that final knot getting tied, the story was fascinating and a very enjoyable read. (Not to mention that the book itself is SO pretty.)