Iron Book Group discusses "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean In-Person
Join us for a discussion of Susan Olean's memorable non-fiction title: The Library Book. Book copies are available across from the first-floor circulation desk for a month-long checkout. The book is also available through OverDrive as an ebook (click here to access) and audiobook (click here to access).
This session will meet in person. Registration required and new members are always welcome!
A virtual session is scheduled for Thursday, January 13 at 3:00 PM.
Book description: On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, 'Once that first stack got going, it was 'Goodbye, Charlie.'' The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library'and if so, who?
Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
- Date:
- Tuesday, January 11, 2022 Show more dates
- Time:
- 7:00PM - 8:00PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Room #114, Room #115
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Book Discussion