Sooo… this happened. HOT.
My best friend, Lauren McCool, gave this to me last night. Book Lust for travelers!!! It may be the most perfect gift, ever. I’ve perused it a bit, and here are the books I most want to read from Nancy Pearl’s recommendations (so far):
- Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop (China)
- The Greatest Adventure Stories Ever Told by Lamar Underwood
- The Painted Veil by
Paasilinna (Finland)
- The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee (South Korea)
- Once the Shore: Stories by Paul Yoon (South Korea)
- The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux (There’s a whole damn chapter in this about books written about trains…this is one of them. Unf. So awesome.)
- Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (Norway)
- Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple (India)
- Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (India)
- Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (Thailand)
And there’s a lot more. She even touches on some really good fantasy about travel, which is rad. Lauren, that girl knows me too well.
Amazon Publishing Taps Famous Librarian to Curate Its New Series via paidcontent.org, http://paidcontent.org/article/419-amazon-publishing-taps-famous-librarian-to-curate-its-new-series/
Yay Nancy Pearl! And Yay for more out-of-print books being brought to the e-book format! As someone who loves to read weird and often out-of-print books, I can’t tell you how excited I am to see what she chooses. Here’s a link to what’s been announced so far: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000764551
I’m thinking I’ll give After Life a go.
Sooo… this happened. HOT.
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