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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason.
Pearl, Nancy (author).
Oct. 2003. 288p. Sasquatch, paperback, $16.95 (1-57061-381-8). 011.
REVIEW.
First published September 1, 2003 (Booklist).
Pearl is the director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle (WA) Public Library, and she is the author of a two-volume readers’-advisory reference set, Now Read This (1999, 2002). This latest book is a much more “personal” one. Yes, like her previous books, it is helpful to readers’ advisory librarians, but that usage should not prevent library patrons who desire recommendations for further reading from consulting the books themselves. Pearl know about what she speaks; as she indicates in the introduction, the book “grew out of my more than thirty years of work as a professional reader and book reviewer [including as a longtime freelance contributor to Booklist].” Her recommendations are arranged under an alphabetical, subjective, but certainly comprehensive system of categoreis, which range from “Academic Mysteries” to “World War II Nonfiction” and from “First Novels” to “Three-Hanky Readers.” Within each category, Pearl’s commentaries are concise and sound. A book difficult to put down and easy to be guided by.
— Brad Hooper
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