Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers by Nancy Pearl01/18/2011 09:56:51 PM
Location : Cleveland, OH
Going on vacation and need some recommendations
for reading material? Heading off on a business trip and want to know something
about your destination? Always wanted to visit a specific area of the world
and wanted to know more about it? Looking for adventure? Nancy Pearl has
answered those questions, and more, in Book
Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers.
Nancy Pearl may be known to you as a commentator on National Public Radio or as, arguably, the most popular librarian in the United States. In Book Lust to Go, she provides 120 destinations and her recommended reading for those places. While many of her endorsements are quick, others have her personal thoughts. It's those that make this book as it is evident that she is very well read. She writes as if she is standing in front of you, giving you friendly, knowledgeable advice. Also, it is as if she is expecting your next question. For example, she tells you why she has included Iceland in the book. As you consider that island as a destination, she then moves on to a chapter on following in the footsteps of some past adventurer. It's almost uncanny how she segues into that topic; it feels natural.
Thinking of Sweden? Pearl recommends Stieg Larsson, but tells the reader that she finds the prose too dark for her to read comfortably. If you've read Larsson's novels, and want more with a Swedish bent, Pearl delivers additional authors to read. She delves into Florida, but does not recommend Carl Hiaasen, Thomas Cavanagh, or Tim Dorsey, which I found unusual. That is probably my only complaint with this book and it is small. Happily, I discovered that I had read quite a few of her recommendations, some of which I had thought were off the beaten path. It was nice to have some validation to the books I had read.
Not only is Book Lust to Go a great reference for those readers that travel the world, for the avid or casual reader, it will provide return trips to the local library and on-line bookseller, as Nancy Pearl's praise for the books included is infectious. Be sure to have paper and pen at the ready, you will be writing down quite a few books to add to your "Must Read" list.
Disclosure:
Obtained from: Library
Payment: Borrowed
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Nancy Pearl may be known to you as a commentator on National Public Radio or as, arguably, the most popular librarian in the United States. In Book Lust to Go, she provides 120 destinations and her recommended reading for those places. While many of her endorsements are quick, others have her personal thoughts. It's those that make this book as it is evident that she is very well read. She writes as if she is standing in front of you, giving you friendly, knowledgeable advice. Also, it is as if she is expecting your next question. For example, she tells you why she has included Iceland in the book. As you consider that island as a destination, she then moves on to a chapter on following in the footsteps of some past adventurer. It's almost uncanny how she segues into that topic; it feels natural.
Thinking of Sweden? Pearl recommends Stieg Larsson, but tells the reader that she finds the prose too dark for her to read comfortably. If you've read Larsson's novels, and want more with a Swedish bent, Pearl delivers additional authors to read. She delves into Florida, but does not recommend Carl Hiaasen, Thomas Cavanagh, or Tim Dorsey, which I found unusual. That is probably my only complaint with this book and it is small. Happily, I discovered that I had read quite a few of her recommendations, some of which I had thought were off the beaten path. It was nice to have some validation to the books I had read.
Not only is Book Lust to Go a great reference for those readers that travel the world, for the avid or casual reader, it will provide return trips to the local library and on-line bookseller, as Nancy Pearl's praise for the books included is infectious. Be sure to have paper and pen at the ready, you will be writing down quite a few books to add to your "Must Read" list.
Disclosure:
Obtained from: Library
Payment: Borrowed
Technorati tag: book review Nancy Pearl Book Lust to Go
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