The Library Book | 
so-soShocker, behind on reviews!
Read this for #Booked2022 - Written by a journalist
Probably an unpopular opinion, but it just didn‘t do it for me. 🤷🏻♀️ I‘m thinking it would have been better in print, because a lot of it was her just listing off books..
pickThe overarching story is about the fire at Los Angeles‘ Central Library in 1986 where over 700,000 books, plays, periodicals, maps, and other items were lost to the blaze and the fight to restore the library and what was lost.
The rest was a love letter to libraries, librarians, and the communities that form around them.
pickLooks like I might get a #BookSpinBingo after all, now I've finished my #DoubleSpin!
I really liked this book; it's less about the library fire in some ways and more just a history of the whole library, and a little of the development of how libraries are framed through history. Which might sound dry, but there's plenty of fascinating detail.
I'm finding this riveting and wishing I had time to finish it today, aaah. Though it feels weird to spend so much time on Harry Peak when, idk, it doesn't seem like arson was his style?
Need to read this for my #DoubleSpin, so I've just started digging in. It's a horrifying description of a fire, for sure, and I can't help but wonder if any of those firemen suffered longer-term effects...
Trying to figure out a line in #BookSpinBingo, too. It's been a weird old month, and I haven't at all read the things I intended to read! But I have options now, if I read speedily.
My library is almost done!! The doors get put in this week, and the Pod with all my books will be delivered at the end of the month. I don‘t get the other four bookshelves I ordered until November, but the end is in sight!
I‘m being featured on my Library‘s blog. Fun!
Check it out here:
https://www.amesfreelibrary.org/blog/staff-picks/staff-stories/staff-stories-aly...
pickMy last finished book in May...I enjoyed it even more than I expected! Definitely worth checking out if you love libraries.
pickInteresting book on what libraries do built around the tragic fire at L.A. Public Library in 1986. Has a lot of history and bios. of people in Calif. who started the library in So. Calif. Could have been a little shorter but very enjoyable.
#OnThisDay in 1986 a devastating fire hit Los Angeles' Central Library. It damaged or destroyed more than one million books. Thankfully, the alarm systems and fire protection had recently been upgraded, and that advanced warning meant all 400 people inside the building were able to escape uninjured. It took around 350 firefighters and 7 hours before the blaze was extinguished. Arson was suspected, but the culprit remains a mystery. #HistoryGetsLIT
I'm also going to read this one. I've heard good things about it. I think it's about the LA Public Library and other things. As a librarian I feel obligated ! 😉
pickFinished The Library Book, and jumping straight into Seeing Red for #BookSpinBingo and #ThingsinCommon. ❤️
Finally, I can formally announce that I am the new Page Supervisor at the East Regional Branch for Durham County Public Library System.
After months of waiting for official word, it is approved and my first day was today.
I love that my colleagues had my desk cleaned, left swag and officially welcomed me on the public bulletin board as you enter the branch.
#savvysettings #Library Really ? Nobody used this one today? I really enjoyed this one .I used to have Los Angeles ,Pasadena, and Long Beach library cards .😄📚📖📚📖📚📚📚
one off my tbr pile #audiophile #readinggoals #20in24readathon @Andrew65
panThis was the mOst boring book, I‘ve ever had the displeasure to read.
so-so115 pages read in 1 h 54 min, via @leioapp (http://leio.co).
An insightful read. 3.5/5 Read for #TheStorygraphGenreChallenge2022 #PopSugarReadingChallenge2022 #52bookclubreadingchallenge2022
pickI‘ve read this rather quickly although I liked the book it was a quick read… the authors love of book was equal to I believe everyone on Litsy enjoyable
So I‘ve chosen the above tagged book for this challenge… I‘ve been wanting to read this 🤗📖
Today‘s move went rather well. The movers got all my heavy items (piano, bookshelves) moved with relative ease. The boyfriend decided that I should have my own library/reading room. Still have more books to bring over, and need to hang my literary pictures, but the library room is coming along. #personallibrary
so-soThe book is a mix of disaster, biography, and history. It was good. I particularly found the information about arson interesting. It‘s not that easy to tell if a fire is arson. There is lots of interesting info about the inner workings of a library and its services, but I‘m a librarian, so that wasn‘t really new to me. There were some photos included in the book, mostly of the previous librarians (and one of Harry Peak).
pickI loved how this revolved around the case of the fire, but was so much more. 4⭐
What better book to read in a library than one called The Library Book. 😂 Thoroughly enjoying my reading retreat weekend with these wonderful Littens. #gladstonerds #readingretreat
1. Surprisingly only two at the moment: The Way of Kings and The Copyeditor‘s Handbook
2. The Library Book by Susan Orlean
3. I currently have 17, so I won‘t list them all, but my most recent one is I Love You But I‘ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins.
#weekendreads
pickA passionate ode to libraries: how they are built, what can be lost, and how best they serve our communities. In the microcosm of the LA central 1986 fire is the catalyst for the exploration of so much library history and its future in a tech savy world. Libraries are hard to kill.
My heart is happy when I fill in at my kids' school because I get to read with this guy. He is an elementary student that struggles with reading and while he fellow students do things above his level, he comes to read to me. Obviously, he isn't my child so I took a picture of him walking away from me, but this is my favorite part of the day.
Wonderful book about the Los Angeles Library, the fire at the main branch in 1986, and libraries and librarians in general.
#Bookspin @TheAromaofBooks
I had a student tell me that he wanted to learn the specialist rotation by ❤ so that he could remember when to wear his library shoes. Littens, here are the library shoes.
Babysitting Lou and her request for belly rubs is cutting into my reading time. Anything for this sweet girl. And the book is wonderful, too.
#dogsoflitsy
Just finished up my #BookSpinBINGO list for September. It will be a super-busy back-to-school month, so hoping to at least get to my #bookspin and #doublespin picks.
pickAn interesting, chatty, tangent-filled tale centering around the Los Angeles Central Library, the characters who inhabit(ed) it and the devastating fire that destroyed or damaged over 1 million books.
I empathized with the author's reminiscences about what libraries meant to her, delighted in the exploits of various librarians (Charles Lummis sounds a hoot) and puzzled over the possible culpability of an alleged arsonist. An absorbing read.
pickThis book was a bit slow for me but I really enjoyed learning little known facts about libraries and librarians throughout the book. I learned a bunch and am putting it as a “pick” because I love books, reading, and libraries so much.
Just got my new library card - the mobile library stops outside our new house once a month! #rurallfe!
“People wanted so much from the library. They wanted it to solve things for them. They wanted the library to fix them and teach them how to fix their lives.” #MondayReads #LibraryBook
This is an incredibly powerful reminder of why local elections are so important:
https://bookriot.com/niles-public-library/
pickWhat a sheer delight this book was. I was a little leery at first, but Orlean‘s combination of a historical event, science, and memoir was completely captivating, from start to finish.
so-so#unpopularopinion I did not love this book like everyone else. I didn‘t feel like the disparate parts hung together as well as they should/could have and frankly I was often a little bored, turning to see how many more pages the chapter or the book had. Full review at https://booknaround.blogspot.com/2021/06/review-library-book-by-susan-orlean.htm...
Y‘ALL 😭
pickStill can‘t read print thanks to my concussion but loving these audiobooks from the library and audible 📚also, my library opened back up today! Getting caught up on my #litsylove this week too 📬
pickSo good! Very well written and researched 😍 this is my #doublespin and third book for #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
pickThis is a love story to libraries and librarians everywhere, with a true crime element running through it. And she mentions my local library in Aarhus quite a lot at the end, which made me like this book even more! 🙌
#Booked2021 #TitleIncludesLibraryOfLibrarian
pickThankfully our libraries opened up just as I started this one - it made me desperate to go! Took my 20 month old for the first time since he was a little baby and he kept looking around saying ‘wow!‘ 😍 Arthur loves his digger book, I‘m not sure how he will react when I tell him we have to return it... #booked2021 library in title
My Reese's Book Club Book arrived today. It's really cute. It includes cookies, coffee, a scarf, a great pine smelling candle, bookmark and I picked The Library Book for the book 🧡
