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Schedule for January 2013 - June 2013
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In this day and age of digital technology, how can a bookstore stay open with only a few customers stopping by each day to browse, not buy, and borrow obscure books?
That's what Clay Jannon wanted to know after he began working at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. A web designer turned night shift clerk, Clay embarks on an adventure to discover what's really going on behind the scenes.
Robin Sloan included everything in this story. It's a mystery, an adventure story, a love story, and even a littl ...more
That's what Clay Jannon wanted to know after he began working at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. A web designer turned night shift clerk, Clay embarks on an adventure to discover what's really going on behind the scenes.
Robin Sloan included everything in this story. It's a mystery, an adventure story, a love story, and even a littl ...more
I enjoyed this book--it's a quick and entertaining. While I wouldn't quite call it mind candy, it definitely borders on that category. The ideas could be developed more fully, as could the characters. But I love the focus on reading and books as material objects with a long history. Plus it's set in San Francisco, and who doesn't love SF?
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Initially I wasn't quite sure what to make of this, but ultimately I feel like Sloan did a really nice job of capturing what I love about books - not their physicality but the world of ideas they bring to their readers and the connections we forge when ideas get shared. In a way, I find it refreshing to read a book-about-books that's more about where we are right now and where we're going, and not in an I-miss-the-old-days way. Technology is powerful stuff and it's fun to see an author really fl
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That was such a fun read. Not my usual, but read it based on friend's recommendation.
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Loved this book, if you love books then you will love this one and the story
Hmmm...I liked it but it isn't a book that I will want to reread again. But give me a bit of time to figure out what put me off the book.
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