"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title."Does anyone know more about books than Seattle's beloved librarian, Nancy Pearl?" - Seattle Magazine "Sprightly and concise.with this guidebook in hand, readers can benefit from her experience as they travel their own ways." - Publishers Weekly "Looking for a good book? Naturally, Nancy Pearl has a few recommendations." - Sunset Magazine ".recommended for voracious armchair travelers and librarians looking for a quick readers' advisory tool for patrons who value setting and frame." - Library Journal ".she's a literary lantern who lights our way through the dark canyons created by the overwhelmingly prolific publishing industry." - Minneapolis Star Tribune ".wildly popular librarian Nancy Pearl takes us way, way beyond Eat, Pray, Love toward a much more diverse adventurescape." - Dail圜andy "Book Lust to Go pulses with passionate recommendations about which authors are the best at taking you inside the soul of a place. Pearl has produced a winner and the perfect bedside companion. It might have been easy to stick with the country structure for a book like this, but Pearl mixed it up, to good effect, with chapters like "So We/I Bought (or Built) A House In." which includes books about homes in Morocco, Mexico, France, Brazil, and Ireland.
In "Africa," for instance, she includes the classic Cry the Beloved Country as well as contemporary mysteries such as Wife of the Gods. Pearl classifies her recommendations well enough so that readers can take or leave her advice. In an entry for "Las Vegas," for example, Pearl recommends Chris Ewan's novel, The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas, for fans of Hiaassen and Westlake, capers that use various cities of the world for their settings. With fanciful alliteration, Pearl lists titles under topics arranged from "A is for Adventure" to "Zipping through Zimbabwe." Recommendations are accompanied by brief critiques and insights. With the holidays just around the corner, Nancy Pearl's little gem will please many a traveler (or dreamer) who loves to read about faraway places but doesn't know where to start.
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