Nancy Pearl -- the human librarian created in response to unprecedented sales of the doll with the amazing push-button shushing action -- has written a sequel to Book lust (Sasquatch, 2003), her annotated list of reading recommendations. Focus groups met regularly, presumably, before settling on the snappy title More book lust (Sasquatch, 2005). The longest single essay in the new book is “Dewey deconstructed,” a sift through each of the main DDC classes that allows Nancy to uncover some otherwise uncategorizable gems, including Weaver and Le Cron’s groundbreaking A thousand ways to please a husband with Bettina’s best recipes (revised ed., A. L. Burt, 1932) at 641.5 Cooking. There’s also a section on graphic novels, which I mention not only because of the ongoing debate about the way graphic novels should be treated in DDC, but also because I’m still quietly smarting over the absence of my own personal recommendations. Seriously, how could anyone leave out the Hernandez brothers’ Love and rockets, specifically in the form of Palomar (Fantagraphics, 2003) and Locas (Fantagraphics, 2004)? Here’s looking forward to Even more book lust in 2007.
What if just, you know, +like+ a book? Do I have to feel sexual passion for a book to want to read it? And why hasn't anyone made a doll that looks like me...?
Posted by: Ryan Tranquilla | 10 July 2005 at 04:05 PM