It is an extension of one's self entering into a mysterious land far beyond the familiar. ^ 'Paperback Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - Books - Dec. The Library Book by Susan Orlean is a love sonnet to every book we humans have ever opened and a cherished memory with each slip of the hand gliding across page after page with tactile delight.'Review | Everybody who loves books should check out 'The Library Book' '. ^ a b c 'Nonfiction Book Review: The Library Book by Susan Orlean.'It's a Fact: Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry'. ^ Alter, Alexandra (September 22, 2019).'Who started the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Library? Susan Orlean investigates in her new book'. ^ Kellogg, Carolyn (October 11, 2018).'The Library Fire That Ignited an Author's Imagination'. Television adaptation Īs of 2019, Orlean is slated to collaborate with James Ponsoldt to write and executive-produce an adaption for television. The Library Book became a New York Times Best Seller.

You really never know how seriously interesting a subject might be until such a person takes a serious interest in it.' In The Washington Post, Ron Charles called The Library Book 'a wide-ranging, deeply personal and terrifically engaging investigation of humanity's bulwark against oblivion: the library.' Reviewing the book for The New York Times, Michael Lewis wrote, 'Susan Orlean has once again found rich material where no one else has bothered to look for it…Once again, she's demonstrated that the feelings of a writer, if that writer is sufficiently talented and her feelings sufficiently strong, can supply her own drama.

in telling the story of this one library, Orlean reminds readers of the spirit of them all, their mission to welcome and equalize and inform, the wonderful depths and potential that they-and maybe all of us, as well-contain.The Library Book received strongly favorable reviews and was selected as a 'PW Pick' by Publishers Weekly. The Library Book is a 2018 non-fiction book by Susan Orlean about the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Central Library. Orlean’s lapidary skills include both unearthing the data and carving a storyline out of the sprawl, piling up such copious and relevant details that I wondered how many mountains of research she discarded for each page of jewels. In other hands the book would have been a notebook dump, packed with random facts that weren’t germane but felt too hard-won or remarkable to omit. Unexpectedly engaging sections are tied to architects and landscaping and budgets, plus the overwhelming modern challenges of homelessness and mental illness. As Orlean delves into Central Library’s history, she re-animates the lively characters who once dominated the scene. Bibliophiles will feel deeply understood from the start, when Orlean talks about bringing her young son to a branch library in Los Angeles, just as her own mother had taken her to one in the Cleveland suburbs.

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