One time, when I went up to San Francisco with a friend, we were walking down Market Street when we were accosted by a man with a dented hat, a wiry brush, and a bottle of glutinous-looking shoe-polish. We immediately refused his offer to polish our (tennis) shoes for $10 apiece, but when the shoesh...
Synopsis The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. But after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. T...
I didn't like this as much as I thought I would. I've had this life-long obsession with books and the basic premise sounded right up my street. What didn't work for me is that the characters stayed as flat at comic book characters. Like the female 'love-interest', Kat. Wearing the same tee-shirt all...
So this book was promising. It's about a guy named Clay Jannon who, desperate for work, walks into a job at a seedy-looking, little-frequented 24-hour bookstore (not a euphemism). He quickly discovers that there's something a little bit odd going on as miscellaneous odd people wander in at strange h...
Mr. Penumbra starts so well. It has a standard plot - young protagonist coming to work in a strange store that has even stranger customers - but with a refreshing take, main protagonist being a tech savvy designer with programming skills. It has a nice setting - bookstore, for all us in love with re...
I absolutely loved this book. I read this for the bookclubofinstagram's May month book. I am so happy to have read this. A bonus is that the book cover glows in the dark. The novel is about Clay who, after the failure of the bagel place he was working at, begins work at a bookstore where he works...
Sitting down to write this review makes me feel distinctly curmudgeonly. I didn't love this one, despite its eagerness to be patted, its copious pop culture references, the deep love of books. Given who I am, why didn't that last one, at least, get to me? Maybe because that part felt superficial. Bo...
What a fantastic book! I LOVE everything about this book! The writing, the characters (all but one), and the premise is incredible! I can't get enough of it. It is now one of my new favorites because I just enjoyed the journey and the lessons it taught throughout. The writing is so clever and witt...
Disclaimer: I have never worked for Google, I have nothing against Google, I Google things all the time. In fact, I tried Googling how many times Google was mentioned in this book, but I just got a bunch of book reviews. So I can only say it is mentioned A LOT. This book is an homage to Google, w...
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