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SUMMARY:August Book Club - The Library Book by Susan Orleans
LOCATION:Beverlywood West Townhomes
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 27% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nOn 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 go
 ing\, it was ‘Goodbye\, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 200
 0 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extingu
 ished\, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hund
 red thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene\, but more than th
 irty years later\, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire 
 to the library—and if so\, who?\n\nWeaving her lifelong love of books and 
 reading into an investigation of the fire\, award-winning New Yorker repor
 ter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmeriz
 ing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of
  libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.\n\nIn 
 The Library Book\, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to sh
 owcase the larger\, crucial role that libraries play in our lives\; delves
  into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world\,
  from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to t
 heir current status as a cornerstone of national identity\; brings each de
 partment of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting\; st
 udies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself\; reflects on he
 r own experiences in libraries\; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak\, t
 he blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than
  thirty years ago.\n\nAlong the way\, Orlean introduces us to an unforgett
 able cast of characters from libraries past and present—from Mary Foy\, wh
 o in 1880 at eighteen years old was named the head of the Los Angeles Publ
 ic Library at a time when men still dominated the role\, to Dr. C.J.K. Jon
 es\, a pastor\, citrus farmer\, and polymath known as “The Human Encyclope
 dia” who roamed the library dispensing information\; from Charles Lummis\,
  a wildly eccentric journalist and adventurer who was determined to make t
 he L.A. library one of the best in the world\, to the current staff\, who 
 do heroic work every day to ensure that their institution remains a vital 
 part of the city it serves.
URL:https://www.meetup.com/book-club-meetup-group/events/315806093/
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