To be skimmed - eclectic but certainly not all- inclusive

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	• Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (LUST) Nancy Pearl Sasquatch Books, 2003 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 34 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Entertaining on its own

This is a unique type of "book review" list as the author categorizes books under unorthodox headings (such as "armchair travel", "first lines to remember", "boys coming of age", etc.) I enjoy this guide as a read in itself. She devotes a paragraph or so to a title, or author and has sections on one author titled "too good to miss". Her taste is not exactly mine as she tends toward the romantic and mystery genres and, it is my opinion, disregards more serious classic writing. For example, I really enjoy Richard Ford's novels (The Sportswriter being one)and she doesn't even mention him. There are so many books and a limited amount of space so that is understandable. What I really appreciate about this book is that she has led me to some books I never would have considered -and I really enjoyed just giving myself up to her recommendation. She also includes a list of best novels from each decade of past century and this list is worth reading through as an experiment in widening one's reading scope. Author is a retired librarian who you -can tell -really loves books.

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The Sweetest Plum

I love BOOK LUST and MORE BOOK LUST. Let's just get that out of the way.

Pearl gathered together a fantastic reference book filled with over 1000 titles by specific categories for every mood: Arctic adventure, Armchair Travel, Fantasy by the truckload, Gay/Lesbian Literature, For the Cat Lover and so on.

Books on almost every country (and every state in her follow up "More Book Lust"). Fiction and nonfiction abound. My bounty grew and Pearl lead me to some great treasures, including a list of other bibliographies, which fed my lust for even more books.

She includes a brief description of most books and throws a few other titles in each category that are simply "too good to miss". Both of her books include featured authors.

Naturally, these are her personal picks, but I liked the idea of setting books to moods rather than publishing dates or random genres. Now, I have a reference if I'm in the mood for a Japanese Murder Mystery or if I crave a little Academic Humor. Heed this advise: plunder her pages. You won't regret it!

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To be skimmed - eclectic but certainly not all- inclusive

I love books about books. Nancy Pearl also loves books and books about books, and compiles here a long list of favorites. She provides short- summaries of the books. She has a long list of categories in which she does this, but many of the categories I most care about including those in the realm of politics, religion, philosophy, poetry are not listed at all. She has a broad taste but to my mind a bit light. Nonetheless going down the lists one can find new suggestions for reading.
No one can read everything.
And some people who are great readers have much narrower focus than this work.
But this work does have valuable suggestions , and there should be something for almost everyone in it.
A book to be skimmed and not chewed and digested.

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Great book about great books

For an avid reader like myself, it's often tough to know what to read next. In this book, Nancy Pearl helped me get quite a few suggestions.

The book is helpfully broken up into little chapters about different genres or subjects, such as Action Heroines. I found it great, because if I'm not interested in that particular subject, I can just skip to the next section.

The only thing that prevented me from giving this book 5 stars was that the summaries about the books are way too short. I really couldn't tell whether I'd like the book or not until I had come and read a few of the book's reviews on Amazon.

All in all, this is a marvelous book, chock full of great suggestions for the casual and avid reader. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

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Introduction to Great Books I Might Have Missed

Like any avid reader, I am always curious about the books others are reading. The patients who come to the office where I practice my profession of nursing often come bearing a book suggestion or the book itself. The word is out... I am a voracious reader! This being said, is it any wonder that when I happened upon Nancy Pearl's Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason, I could hardly contain myself?

Pearl, a librarian, author and NPR regular, has compiled an impressive array of books--some classics, some newcomers and certainly some from practically any genre or venue that you could imagine. Her book has the added appeal of being so well organized that it is one you can easily pick up and read as little or as much as you like in one sitting. Although I must admit it only took me one sitting to read the book, it took two additional sittings to go back through and compile my own list from Pearl's list. Readers might want to read smarter with paper and pen handy so they can jot down authors and/or titles as they read.

Within Pearl's 175 lists of books, I was delighted to find many well-loved works that are now on my list to re-read. I also was introduced to authors and titles that have piqued my curiosity and sent me packing to the local library with list in hand. Whether readers enjoy fiction or non, contemporary or Victorian, stories of travel to exotic places or stories of a hometown nature, they are sure to find many suggested titles.

Among my favorite lists are the ones titled "Too Good To Miss: _______," which introduce the works of particular authors. Many of these authors were unfamiliar names to me but are no longer! Pearl has introduced me to some great reads I might otherwise have missed. This is, by far, the best gift of this delightful book about books.

by Lee Ambrose
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women

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reviews: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with ?What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book,? has devised 170 thematic reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, ?chick-lit,? and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout in this lively and informative illustrated guide.

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