{"id":7091,"date":"2025-12-10T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:42:16","slug":"book-review-the-library-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=7091","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Library Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Library Book<\/em>, by Susan Orlean<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A book called The Library Book<\/em> that I got from the library is a real Inception<\/em>-level meta-narrative. I love the local library. The first thing I did when I moved was get a new library card even before I got curtains! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLibraries are more important than curtains.\u201d – Dan Bergstein<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Library Book <\/em>by Susan Orlean is a history of libraries and stories about libraries, with a focus on the Los Angeles Public Library and a fire that nearly wiped it out in 1986. Orlean\u2019s style is free-flowing, meaning it\u2019s not a typical non-fiction book but more a long, rambling essay about all things library. I liked it a lot! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading it will make you want to read more books, and if you are someone who hates libraries, this might change your mind on what a library can do for the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now, libraries are getting attacked for bizarre socio-political reasons. It\u2019s nuts. Attacking libraries is like attacking fire hydrants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Fire hydrants are taking up our parking spaces!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Fire hydrants make things wet!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Fire hydrants taste like dog pee!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calm down! Fire hydrants are not hurting anyone. In fact, they\u2019re saving people in need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, this book is good, and so are libraries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know what else is good? Improving America’s declining literacy rates by supporting my Reading is Fundamental campaign! Click here to donate! <\/a>Thank you!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n