December 10, 2020 The Orchid Thief

oup Non-Fiction Book Discussion Gr MA Weston Public Library, Weston "It's about getting immersed in something, and learning about it, and having it become part of your life. It's a kind of direction." He stopped on the word "direction" and chortled. "If anybody had a plant I didn't have, I made sure to get it. It was like a heroin addiction. If I ever had money I would spend it on plants.” Susan Orlean p.256 Susan Orlean is a journalist and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside.

Susan Orlean John Edward Laroche is an American horticulturist who was arrested for poaching wild ghost orchids while working for the Seminole natives in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve in Florida. https://therealorchidthief.com/

John Laroche One thing I'm very comfortable with is the inherent subjectivity of literary journalism. While the kind of writing that I do is honest and factual I'm also very clear that it's a story I'm telling you, limited by my vision, my abilities as a reporter and frankly coloured by what I feel is important. Sometimes I'm just the narrator taking you from one place to another, but sometimes I want to reveal to you why I was drawn to the story. -Susan Orlean https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/susan-orlean- adaptation-orchid-thief-rin-tin-tin South Florida PBS of land da, y ori unit Fl ort opp Orchids of Furth he New Yorker Article that er T Fakahatc started it all: hee Strand https://www.youtube reading .com/watch? https://www.newyorker.com/ma v=4GlWOycRiEA&featu gazine/1995/01/23/orchid- re=youtu.be&ab_chan fever nel=WGCUPublicMedia

Orchids, florida, and more to satisfy your curiosity.

Idea oMore about ghost Orchids Robert Fuchs Orchids from National Geographic https://www.nationalgeogra http://rforchids.com/ phic.com/animals/2019/07/g host-orchids-florida- surprising-pollinators- moths/ Further Author Q & A from The Reader's Reading Circle (great read!)

http://www.randomhouse.com/ http://www.susanorlean.com/ rhpg//rc/library/display.pp author/ erl? ebsite: books, isbn=9780449003718&view=qa Susan Orlean's w articles and more

Susan Orlean

The Library Book, 2018 Rin Tin Tin, 2011

My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who Has Been Everywhere, 2004