The Library Book

This was a pretty good book overall. Orlean interweaves the story of the library's burning in the 80s, the history of the LA Library system, and lots of information about libraries today into a pretty engaging story. The book really suffers when she veers from the facts into weird, gimmicky, first person attempts at profundity, such as the chapter dedicated to her burning a book in her back yard or a very strange interlude late in the book wherein she imagines the events that caused the fire.