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This is a wonderful fantasy involving a strange bookstore in San Francisco that has almost no customers. Clay Jannon, an out-of-work web designer, gets hired by Mr Penumbra as a night clerk. The same few people frequent the store repeatedly searching out strange books. Clay and his friends are intrigued by the secret behind Mr Penumbra's bookstore.
The book is an intersection between Google decoders in the new world of Information Technology, and the old world of Fifteenth Century printmaking. It ...more
The book is an intersection between Google decoders in the new world of Information Technology, and the old world of Fifteenth Century printmaking. It ...more
Having lost his job as marketing whizz for a bagel store, Clay answers an ad in the window of a dark and dusty bookstore for a night clerk. He soon realizes there are two types of customer, and one type is distinctly odd...
I enjoyed the beginning of this and loved the setup at the bookstore. There were other things I liked, too - Neel and his breast animation company was great and almost believable - I have a niece who has interned on video game design and tells tales of similar real companies, ...more
I enjoyed the beginning of this and loved the setup at the bookstore. There were other things I liked, too - Neel and his breast animation company was great and almost believable - I have a niece who has interned on video game design and tells tales of similar real companies, ...more
This is THE book to read if you love audiobooks because they play an important role in the latter part of the book. Yup - I feel validated now :-) But seriously, I'm so happy I stumbled across Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, because it's beyond cute, and funny, and quirky, and just plain fun reading. It's sort of a modern day mystery/ adventure story with books written in code that even Google supercomputers couldn't crack - but it's also about the importance of the friendships you make in lif ...more
Probably one of my top books this year. I LOVED this book, it had so many of my favorite things - books, mystery, friendship, the quest, and great references. For Aeddon - "we play the game in a circle. It's called Traitor...(p.70)", for Julie - "deputy director of the most obscure museum...called the California Museum of Knitting Arts and Embroidery Sciences" (p.245), and for everyone - who can resist a book who 4 parts are: The Bookstore, The Library, The Tower and Epilogue.
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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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