World Famous Comics: More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
By: Nancy Pearl Publisher: Sasquatch Books Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Sasquatch Books Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 304 Publication Date: April 13, 2005
Product Description: The response to Nancy Pearl's surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian and winner of the 2004 Women's National Book Award even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl's encyclopedic but discerning filter on books worth reading, and her Rule of 50 (give a book 50 pages before deciding whether to continue; but readers over 50 must read the same number of pages as their age) became a standard MO.
Once again organized by topic, this sprightly follow-up includes an array of titles in nearly 150 eclectic categories, including Plots for Plotzing (highly unusual storylines), Animal Love (in which humans fall in love with animals), The Autobiographical Gesture (memoirs about complex lives), Child Prodigies (child characters who are called on to perform great and sometimes heroic acts), Nagging Mothers, Crying Children (true tales from the frontlines of parenting), and Libraries and Librarians. Both a valuable reference and a vastly enjoyable read, More Book Lust offers a wealth of enthusiastic, quirky reading recommendations.
A great follow-up to Book Lust This was a nice little follow-up to Book Lust and yielded a number of recommendations. Nancy Pearl is well-read in a wide range of subjects and genres and the two Book Lust books are great companions for any lover of reading.
If You're Stumped For a Good Read...Read This The moment I finished Pearl's first book, Book Lust, I reached for its sequel, More Book Lust. Pearl's lists in her first book sparked a fire within to create a diverse list of to-be-read titles and authors, which I could carry to the library on upcoming visits. I wasn't sure that she could write a more interesting set of book lists than she already had. But I am glad she never doubted it!
More Book Lust continues in the same format as its predecessor... Lists of books by title, location, or topic. Some familiar, some classics. Some nearly as new as her own 2005 publication.
There are lists for the culinary savvy and lists for kids, or adults who are kids at heart and never tire of a good kid-lit read! There are lists about war. (Notice I said lists - plural; she doesn't lump all war books into one general group but takes the time to sort them according to venue, military branch or author.) There are lists of books on topics I never dreamed of reading but now am curious to take a closer look. There are books with an international flavor and books with small-town USA plots and characters. In short, if there is a topic for a book, it has its own list in Nancy Pearl's Book Lust duo.
Pearl was a librarian and is now a noted NPR regular as well as author. She is credited with the first "book group" by launching a citywide activity in 1998 for everyone to read the same book and then come together to discuss it. Look how far that concept has reached now in towns and cities all over the country and online. Even in our own Story Circle Network, the fruits of her idea can be realized in our reading e-circle or one of the Austin area reading circles.
If you are stumped for a good read, or if you just like books so much that you feel inclined to read a book about books, More Book Lust is sure to please!
by Lee Ambrose for Story Circle Book Reviews reviewing books by, for, and about women
More reading about what one might read No matter how books a person has read, there are always many more that one has not. For those who love books there are always other books waiting somewhere which one has not read, and which can be of real interest. This particular book is a sequel to one in the same format. Books are listed, briefly summarized and critiqued. One special set of classifications is for individual authors who happen to be favorites of Pearl. For those who enjoy learning about new books this book will be a pleasure. I again have taste and interests very different from Pearl's, and would if making my own lists have much different categories. Still I believe most readers can learn about many interesting new titles here.
A good way of finding new books If you're looking for books to read - in my experience, there are always too many, but if you are - I'd definitely suggest borrowing Book Lust and More Book Lust from the library. (I'd say buy it, but once you extract the titles that interest you I'm not sure how much use it would be. Still, it's up to you.)
Not everyone will find all of the reading lists in the book useful, but that's really how it was meant to be read. I skipped over more than half, only reading the sections that caught my attention, and I STILL had a good eighty titles by the time I'd finished.
My one complaint would be that I grew tired of seeing the "Too good to miss" listings (of which there are many) throughout both books. They're devoted to the work of one author that Nancy Pearl considers especially good, but I found them much less useful than everything else. Probably because they're not as varied, so if I don't happen to like the sound of one author's work I've got to skip to the next part.
Respect and admiration for a brave bibliophile Wow...this lady can READ! If she's read half of those she's recommended in two volumes, RE-read many of them, AND found the time to write these books-listing-books atop that, well...I'm truly impressed. That's a life well-lived in the world of reading.
It's all a matter of opinion, but a few of her suggestions were outright bombs where I labored to get to page 10 (Amazon probably will strike me down for saying so, but thank God the library's free). Then again, there were a few which more than made up for them-and which I'd never have tried otherwise. I was delighted to find a few of my own favorites among her lists, and some that I'd found to be blatantly missing.
The important thing is to keep reading once you find an author or a style you love. If it's not on Nancy Pearl's list, it could-and should-be on your own.
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