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Robin Sloan
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July 2009
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
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2012
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102 editions
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Sourdough
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published
2017
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2 editions
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Ajax Penumbra 1969 (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #0.5)
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published
2012
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24 editions
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Annabel Scheme
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published
2009
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5 editions
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The Writer and the Witch
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published
2009
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2 editions
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore
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Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate (Annabel Scheme, #2)
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The Wrong Plane
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published
2010
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The Sleep Consultant
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My Father the Druid, My Mother the Tree
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My favorite kind of find
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This is an excerpt from a recent message to my email list, known as the Society of the Double Dagger, currently 12,000 subscribers strong. I send these messages infrequently and I try to make each one feel like a note from a friend. I've never cross-posted one before, and I don't intend to start, so if this feels like the kind of thing you'd like to receive, I invite you sign up at my websit Read more of this blog post »
This is an excerpt from a recent message to my email list, known as the Society of the Double Dagger, currently 12,000 subscribers strong. I send these messages infrequently and I try to make each one feel like a note from a friend. I've never cross-posted one before, and I don't intend to start, so if this feels like the kind of thing you'd like to receive, I invite you sign up at my websit Read more of this blog post »
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The author has hit literary gold by setting his novels in the City by the Bay. Now he's sharing his favorite books that take place in San Francisco.
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Robin Sloan
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Rebecca's
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In a version of the classic fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel," the witch keeps the titular kids in a cage (it's a classic fairy tale! It's dark!) and, every so often, demands that Hansel extend a finger so she can test his fatness and see if he's fit fo
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Mike wrote: "This is all well and good- but what happened with the subway cat?"
You'll have to track down a copy of Studio Ghibli's Whisper of the Hear ...more " |
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| If I had to choose between The Little Prince and this book, I'd choose this book, because in a way you can use it to derive Saint-Exupéry's classic. If The Little Prince is the diamond, this book is the coal: a hard-earned mass of adventure and exper ...more | |
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Robin Sloan
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Tomas's
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This is a good question! There's no direct real-world analogue to the Mazg brothers' soup delivery service, but in a roundabout way, I had in mind a restaurant called Burma Superstar, my favorite spot on Clement Street when I lived in that neighborho
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Robin Sloan
voted for
See You in the Cosmos
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Best Middle Grade & Children's
in the
Final Round
of the
2017 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Robin Sloan
rated a book it was amazing
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| In an interview, Ledgard called this book an attempt at "planetary writing." Well: the attempt succeeded, and the result is a novel simultaneously (a) perfectly of its time, and (b) dizzyingly beyond it. A stunning achievement and, bonus, a great rea ...more | |
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| It's been a long time since I was so happy reading a book this fat, and even longer since I was so sad to see it end. But! -- it took a gloriously long time to get there. HILD is a thick one. You get to the point where you're swimming in the world of ...more | |
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"Griffith's writing is gorgeous. There is an immediacy and specificity in her descriptions of the 7th century Anglo-Saxon world that completely immerse the reader in that unfamiliar time and place. She uses language like a magic wand, although the wor"
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“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
“After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:
A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
“Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.”
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
