Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
By (Author) Nancy Pearl
Blue Star Press
Sasquatch Books
15th October 2012
United States
General
Non Fiction
011.73
Paperback
320
Width 140mm, Height 188mm, Spine 17mm
318g
Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops from Texas to Timbuktu, Nancy Pearl's reading recommendations will send you on your way.
"The doyen of all professional book recommenders (aside from Oprah, that is) is Nancy Pearl, a Seattle librarian who's a regular on NPR and has published several books of tips under the "Book Lust" rubric Pearl is so iconic that when the Archie McPhee novelty company decided to create a librarian action figure, they modeled it after her."
Salon.com
"As in the other volumes in her "Book Lust" series, the idea is very simple. Pearl, a former Seattle librarian, suggests books in various categories. She gives the impression of having read almost everything, and her recommendations are varied and exhaustive. She offers something for everyones taste romantic novels, mysteries, histories,sportsbooks, travel books, comics, poetry and so forth." Mansfield News Journal
Nancy Pearl, author of Book Lust, is America's favorite librarian. She regularly discusses and recommends books on NPR's Morning Edition and lectures widely on the topics of books and reading. She is librarian-at-large with the King County Library System