The Library Book

This was very interesting and also validating! From the first chapter, I was afraid this book would end up being too...obvious? for me to enjoy as a librarian–there's a lot of impressed exclamation over all the weird/cool librarians do, and I was like yeah I KNOW SUSAN. Which of course I know that the vast majority of people reading this aren't librarians and it's great for them to learn more about libraries! But I just feared it would get a little tiresome. But luckily the book veers off in a ton of interesting directions and I learned a lot about arson and library history and Los Angeles history! (And had my librarian ego stroked a little bit!)

Susan Orlean is also a great interviewer who usually gets weird stories out of her subjects, but also humanizes them.

Anyway this was an interesting read for all lovers of books. And/or fires.