A review by lalawoman416
The Library Book by Susan Orlean

4.0

I really wanted to LOVE this book. I did. It had the makings of being my favorite book. A book about libraries. A book about MY library system. And yet... the only chapters I found amazing were Chapters 9 & 13. The rest were good. Good but not amazing. This is a good read about the history of the L.A. Public Library system. But it was a little disjointed. It wanted to be a history of the library. It wanted to tell the story of the 1986 fire in the library. It succeeded in the former and not so much in the latter. The latter story was disjointed, told in parts, peppered throughout the book, and, in the end, said not much more than you could have found in an L.A. Times article. Still, the things I learned from this book was worth the read and I strongly recommend it.