Book group will be meeting at the home of Judy Lohr on Monday, March 23rd from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Let Judy know if you plan to attend by email or by phone at 425-2171.
The book selection is The Library Book by Susan Orlean that chronicles the April 26, 1986 fire in the Los Angeles Public Library. 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.
The Library Book chronicles the crucial role that libraries play in our lives and delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world. It is Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks that reveals how these beloved institutions remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
Judy Lohr