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“I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes.”
Hehe. If you are going to read this book, I suggest the audio version. Not only is the narrator fantastic, part of the plot near the end hinges on a strange, meta-audiobook experience, and the producers of THIS ...more
Hehe. If you are going to read this book, I suggest the audio version. Not only is the narrator fantastic, part of the plot near the end hinges on a strange, meta-audiobook experience, and the producers of THIS ...more
Part Indiana Jones, part Star Wars, part DaVinci Code, with a tad of Nick and Nora and a large splash of Google.
Our hero, Clay Jannon takes a job as the night clerk at Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore because he really needs a job. What he finds is a puzzle, one that he can't resist pulling his friends in to help him solve it. After all, what could be more mysterious than the secret of immortality.
This book was delightful to read. And I really want a house with a secret room. ...more
Our hero, Clay Jannon takes a job as the night clerk at Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore because he really needs a job. What he finds is a puzzle, one that he can't resist pulling his friends in to help him solve it. After all, what could be more mysterious than the secret of immortality.
This book was delightful to read. And I really want a house with a secret room. ...more
How much fun is this book! Not what I expected at all.
The geekery is over the top and you just enjoy where this story takes you. I love that so much of this story revolves around the association of a fantasy dragon trilogy.
I love that they go on a quest (I love it, a quest)! It's a grand adventure wrapped in secret societies, books, technology, and pop culture thrown in.
This book made me smile silly :D ...more
The geekery is over the top and you just enjoy where this story takes you. I love that so much of this story revolves around the association of a fantasy dragon trilogy.
I love that they go on a quest (I love it, a quest)! It's a grand adventure wrapped in secret societies, books, technology, and pop culture thrown in.
This book made me smile silly :D ...more
This book was recommended to me by a GHHS student and it was a great one! It is the perfect blend of old and new: the old bookstore and the unraveling of its mysteries and the new aspects of Google and everything that can be accomplished with their methods of finding solutions to the bookstore mysteries. Robin Sloan was an author I got to meet at an event at the American Library Association National Conference last summer and he said that he felt the new computer worker was under-represented in
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