title: Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
author:  Nancy Pearl 
description: So many books, so little time-so which of the countless titles should a hungry reader pick out and devour? Pearl, a longtime reader, book reviewer and public librarian, presents a hundred or so of her favorites in this novel guide to finding the right book for the right mood. Presented in eclectic categories of people, places and themes (e.g. "Prose by Poets," "Dinosaur Hunting," "In Big Sky Country" and "Academia: The Joke"), each of her suggestions is accompanied by a few of her thoughts on it, a succinct plot summary and often information about the volume's prizes and print status. Her notes are sprightly and concise: in the section on "Families in Trouble," Pearl mentions Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides ("I always thought that it...defined the dysfunctional novel") and Sylvia Foley's Life in Ocean Air ("surely one of the most depressing books I have ever read in a lifetime of reading grim and depressing books"). There's more than just novels, of course: she recommends, for instance, good "Techno-thrillers" ("nonfiction about science and technology") such as The Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable and One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw. Interestingly, Pearl urges readers to abandon books they dislike after 50 pages, though she does point out that frame of mind often determines one's opinion of a book. "When I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey," Pearl declares in her brief introduction; with this guidebook in hand, readers can benefit from her experience as they travel their own ways. <br />Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  RECKLESS RULES
  
  A BRAMBRIDGE NOVEL
  
  Pearl Darling
  
  Magnus&Melinno
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Pearl Darling is the author of The Brambridge Novels, a series of romantic
  suspense books that each feature a potent combination of passion and mystery
  set within the dazzling regency period.
  
  Each of the titles can be read as a standalone, but for those that follow the
  entire series, each book will provide new information about the mysterious
  thread that ties the central figures of the Brambridge Novels together.
  
  And which hero and heroine will be the last to fall to love’s seductive touch?
  Follow the series to its inevitable conclusion to find out.
  
  Also by Pearl Darling
  
  Brambridge Novels:
  
  Somewhat Scandalous
  
  Burning Bright
  
  Dangerous Diana
  
  Reckless Rules
  
  Maddening Minx
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  COPYRIGHT
  
  Published by Magnus & Melinno
  
  ISBN: 978 1 911536 06 2
  
  All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the
  public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real per