Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"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."
DailyCandy
"Book Lust to Go pulses with [Nancy's] passionate recommendations about which authors are the best at taking you inside the soul of a place. Open this paperback anywhere, and you'll be lured in..."
Peninsula Daily News
"Whether it be fiction or non-fiction, a memoir, poetry or a touch of history, Pearl takes us on amazing literary globetrotting adventures - with no passport required!"
Ensemble Vacations Magazine
"If a librarian with her own action figure doesn't strike you as the height of badassery, you might be living in the wrong city."
Portland Mercury
"Pearl's writing is concise but full of passion and often very personal."
Pauline Frommer
"...a great string of books that will sweep you off your feet to far away places... whether you're physically traveling or not."
Seattlest
"The wise and wonderful Nancy Pearl has just published another sure-fire bestseller, BOOKLUST TO GO."
Library Love Fest
"...a must-have for anybody whos curious about travel or the art of travel writing."
Travel the Write Way
Synopsis
Nancy Pearl sells books: hers and those of the authors she recommends.
Book Lust To Go is 120 places to read about before you go. Consider the entry "Indicative of Indonesia", in which Nancy Pearl urges travelers to read V.S. Naipaul's
Among the Believers and Christopher J. Koch's
The Year of Living Dangerously.
Wanderlust-y reading for prospective travelers to Ireland begins with the cheeky: "Let's not start with James Joyce and just say we did, okay?" then goes on to recommend such gems as Nuala O'Faollin's Are you Somebody? and J. P. Dunleavy's Ireland In All Her Sins and Some of Her Graces. This enthusiastic literary globetrotting includes stops in Korea, Sweden, Afghanistan, Albania, Parma, Patagonia, Texas, and Timbuktu. But Nancy Pearl is a reader and a librarian, not a travel agent, so she can't resist recommending reading for "Travel to Imaginary Places" (including Ursula K. LeGuin's The Wizard of Earthsea and Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union) and stories of chucking it all and moving to Spain or Greece under the heading "So We/I Bought (or Built) a House In . . . "
Book Lust To Go brings Pearl's amazing ability to summon the perfect book to connect with a particular interest with the art of having an adventure — whether it requires a passport or just an armchair.
Synopsis
In this collection, Pearl offers recommended reading for travelers, vagabonds, and dreamers on 120 places in the world, from Indonesia to Ireland, summoning the perfect book to connect with a particular interest of the area.
About the Author
The New York Times calls her "the talk of librarian circles." Readers can't get enough of her recommendations while bookstores and libraries offer standing room only whenever she visits. Since the release of the best-selling Book Lust in 2003 and the Librarian Action Figure modeled in her likeness, Nancy Pearl has become a rock star among readers and the tastemaker people turn to when deciding what to read next.
Having worked as a librarian and bookseller in Detroit, Tulsa, and Seattle, Pearl's knowledge of and love for books is unmatched. In 1998, she developed the program "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book," which spread across the country. The former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book, Pearl celebrates the written word by speaking at bookstores and libraries across the country and on her monthly television program Book Lust with Nancy Pearl on the Seattle Channel. She is a regular commentator about books on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and NPR affiliate stations KUOW in Seattle and KWGS in Tulsa.
In 2004, Pearl became the 50th winner of the Women's National Book Association Award for her extraordinary contribution to the world of books. In the moments when Pearl finds herself without a book, she is an avid bicyclist and happy grandmother of three. She lives in Seattle with her husband, Joe.