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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)

Robin Sloan

Start date: December 1, 2015

Finish date: February 29, 2016

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Nov 11, 2012 Connie G rated it really liked it

Shelves: california, books-about-books, fantasy, mystery, contemporary-fiction

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

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Sep 15, 2014 Rosemary rated it liked it · review of another edition

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

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