Join us for a great discussion! Each month we will
read a new title from a variety of genres and authors. New members are always
welcome.
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In January we are reading The library book by
Susan Orlean.
On 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 going, it was 'Goodbye,
Charlie.'" The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for
more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four
hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators
descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains:
Did someone purposefully set fire to the library--and if so, who?
In February we will be reading Indian horse by
Richard Wagamese.