Odile gets a job at the American Library in 1939. Her love of literature and her librarian ambitions are fortified by her mentor Irene Cohen, a Sorbonne Professor. Odile peppers her speech categorizing life, situations and people by the appropriate Dewey system of three digits and a decimal.
(The Library of Congress classification scheme was invented in 1897). She memorized the Dewey Decimal System devised by Melvil Dewey in 1876. There is Odile Souchet, a young ambitious and adventuresome French woman, smitten with English literature. The Paris Library is an engaging historical novel, a treat for bibliophiles, which imaginatively addresses the American Library under the duress of the German occupation of Paris. The bookplate of the American Library in Paris established after the Great War proclaimed, “After the darkness of War, the light of books.” The library celebrated its centenary in 2020. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, a sadly delightful story, appeared in print in 2007 and on the screen in 2018. The current zoom book talk circuit includes The Paris Library, A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles (June 2020) and the non-fiction Information Hunters, When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded together in World War II Europe by Kathy Peiss (December 2019, with the month of publication representing a COVID-19 time marker). LAGUNA HILLS, California – World War II is a magnet for fiction and non-fiction books about books, bookstores and libraries. The Paris Library, A Novel, by Janet Skeslien Charles Atria Books 2020 9781982-134198 355 pages $28.00.
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