The library is the treasure house of the soul, and we are always eager to embrace more interesting souls and find the spirit in the library.

Paris, such a romantic city, experienced many hardships before it grew into the current fashion magic capital. In 1930s and 1940s, the world was at war, and Paris was not spared. The invasion of Germany broke the calm in Paris, and more and more people fled the city, went to the battlefield and returned to their hometown. However, there is always a library here, holding its ground and providing a place for those souls who have nowhere to put them.

The story background of the Paris Library is the 1930s and 1940s. Based on a true story, this book tells the growth process of odell, a Parisian librarian.

Odell is a literary woman. She is obsessed with reading. For her, books are her safe haven. She always likes to stay in the library, reading and dreaming there. Despite her father's strong opposition, she became a librarian without hesitation.

In the library, she met Miss Reed, the curator, Professor Cohen, a Jewish professor, and good friends Margaret and Bitz. These people play an extremely important role in odell's life, and they are the boosters of odell's growth.

Odell lives in a happy and wealthy family. Her father is the police chief, her mother is gentle and amiable, and she has a younger brother who tells everything. This kind of family atmosphere makes her heart extremely pure, but as she grows older, she finds that many things are not what she imagined.

Father always brings different boys home in order to let his daughter find the right boyfriend. Father's majesty, also had an affair; Mother is gentle and amiable, but feudal, because odell divorced during menstruation and broke with the other party; My brother gradually has his own secret. All this makes odell feel strange. We always feel that the relationship between relatives should be unbreakable, but in fact, the author told the truth through the mouth of Audrey's brother Remy:

A sign of maturity is to realize that even the closest relatives have their own lives and wishes.

No matter what kind of relationship we have, we must learn to respect others This is the first lesson that life taught odell.

Odell was estranged from his friend Bitz because his younger brother and friends came together, and refused to talk to Bitz and associate with him. She loves her younger brother so much that she always thinks that Bitz robbed her younger brother Remy, but in fact Remy will always be her younger brother. Ms. Reed, the curator, educated odell and asked her to go to the hospital to help. This distribution made odell realize that he was too narrow-minded, so he took the initiative to break the ice, said sorry to Bitz, and got back together with Bitz.

For odell, the library is like a school. The staff of the library teaches by example, and the books in the library enrich her spiritual world. She learned a lot in Paris, but also lost a lot.

When the enemy invaded Paris, his younger brother Remy took the initiative to join the army and went to the front to contribute to the country. She and her family miss Remy every day. They wait for the news of Remy's death day and night. This is a fatal blow to them. Mother also fell ill because of this.

In the painful days, she gradually fell in love. She and her lover Paul have been longing to be together, but unexpectedly revealed the secret of her friend Margaret in front of her lover. When a secret is discovered by a person, it is no longer a secret.

Margaret and odell broke up. Odell left Paris in great pain.

Odell is always lucky. Her second husband loved her very much and spoiled her, making her life in a foreign country less sad.

This book takes the story of odell as the main line, interspersed with the story of Lily, a neighbor of odell in the 1980s, telling the changes in odell from Lily's perspective, and letting us see a mature odell from Lily's perspective.

In this book, we see not only the cruelty of war, but also the growing wisdom and understanding of love.

Favorite sentence in the book

This is probably the core of the whole book.