The Oorange library offered, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, twenty-four books to the residents of Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Plœmeur (Morbihan).
The association La Library Orange (BO) is based on a common passion for reading, sharing and conviviality. To date, the BO has more than 600 members in France and abroad, i.e. 10,000 subscribers worldwide. Each year, the BO analysis committee and comments more than 400 recent publication pounds. Its final selection offers a very diverse and original offer ranging from biography, history, literature, detective novels, science, testimonies and stories, tests and travel. These books are notably recognized by the quality of writing.
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-“Exchanges and presentation of books”
Of these 600 groups of members, there are the reading circles composed of twelve readers, who receive two books per month, twenty-four pounds per year. At the end of each reading, the reader is invited to give a note of appreciation. At the end of the month, the book that has just been read is transmitted to another subscriber of the circle which, in turn, gives a note of appreciation.
“Thanks to volunteer readers, at the end of the circuit, the books will be offered entirely to associations and nursing homes in the town, at the Scorff hospital and in Kerpape. It is a great way to promote reading, entertaining isolated people, sick through exchanges and the presentation of books ”, underlines Mathieu Anne-Marie, secretary of the Bo of Plœmeur.
