#mr. penumbra's 24-hour bookstore

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“All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.”

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan

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There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore; Robin Sloan

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[trek-tracks]

Star Trek fans are everywhere

#star trek #star trek tos #star trek iv: the voyage home #the voyage home #the one with the whales #Mr penumbra’s 24-hour bookstore

[buttterflyboy]

i found this zine that i made as a book report back in 2020 and was super impressed with it. man i used to be so cool n creative !! neeee d to get back into zines. propelling this action by checking out another comic from the library to inspire me

#[art] #mr penumbra's 24-hour bookstore #mitski #zine #car seat headrest #book report #lucy dacus #academia vibes ahhh #Spotify

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My expectation going into Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan was that it would be like the book Mr. Lemoncello’s Library which I read in middle school. Besides both having strange old men with mysterious connections to books, they are very different lol. 

This book is about Clay, a man who is knowledgable with computers and some coding, getting a job in a 24 Hour bookstore where there are normal shelves in the front, but tall mysterious ones in the back. Only certain customers have access to those shelves, and Clay discovers a pattern in the books they are borrowing when he makes a 3d computer model of the store one night when he’s bored. 

This book is really fun to read, with a weird cult in it, a sweet old man, interesting side characters, and also a lot of interactions with Google TM. It is in first person which I don’t read often so the beginning was jarring for me, but once I got into the flow of the story, it was hard to put down.

#book recs #book review #Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan #image described

[chronomally]

The protag creates a targeted marketing campaign with the following qualifications

and in a later chapter says it returns no hits and I, for one, find it impossible to believe that there are no night owl Wes Anderson fans in the Bay area

#pictures #please feel free to ignore this #I'm reading Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore #The only thing I see on that list that might be in short supply in San Fran is the cash-carrying part #but this takes place in like '08-'09 so even then

[brucedinsman]

Book Review: The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman

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[flourmelon]

You know when a book starts off really good, and then you get about halfway and realize it was all a lie?

(Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore)

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[readingaccountability]

robin sloane books ive read so far - reviews

read all in mid dec 22

mr penumbras 24 hour book store

this book was warm, silly, and full of heart. fascinating themes surrounding tech and what we can do with it, mixed with a classic secret society type plot. i absolutely adored the way all the characters were described, and the way the main character stumbles into the mysterious.

sourdough

YES. just, yes. needed this. this book exudes passion, finding itself at home in the surprising mystery to be found in the mundane. i adored the main character, and the plot was so delightful from start to finish. it felt, and i mean this in the best possible way, like all the magic of a kids book, but written for adults. <3

the suitcase clone

short but sweet, a very fun tie in adventure between the previous books. the magic of the music being played live for the vines, and the added layer of lore, was absolutely lovely!

#bookblr #reading progress update #book tag #book review #original post #robin sloane #mr penumbras 24 hour bookstore #sourdough #the suitcase clone #favorites tag #fantasy #slice of life #magical realism #thriller #spy

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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.”

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan

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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan

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[littlemissinkdrinker]

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

This book has all the elements to be a favorite of mine....and yet it falls short. Way short. And it falls flat. The writing feels amateurish and Clay + Neel just come across, to me, as low-grade assholes. In fact, I didn't really like most of the main cast, only really cared about Mr. Penumbra but even then it wasn't enough to keep this book from being a slog to get through. Oh well.

Overall I was pretty disapointed and don't really understand the hype other than the idea of a 24-hour PHYSICAL bookstore is every bookworm's dream.

Read : Sep 15th - Sep 27th, 2022

Rating : 2 stars

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[89words]

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines – it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Robin Sloan - 'Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore'

[quaranmine]

now you got me curious on on earth kinda book are you reading that uses the word google too much?

It's Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. A main character works for Google. But Google was already being referenced before she showed up. But anyway yes the book basically talks about how great Google is what feels like every page and plot points are being solved by using Google machinery and Google programming and Google features and--

I want main character girl to get laid off immediately following the book.

Also I'm over 50% in and it seems like they're setting up a main plot point for the second half of the book to be "let's steal a priceless totally-unique-to-the-world book from a (private) library so we can upload it to Google and basically give ownership of it to a megacorp!" I think the place they're stealing it from is weird too (I don't know enough about it yet to agree if they're all evil or not) and the desire to have knowledge accessible is a noble one but I am just kind of stunned that this is....a plot point? That an author was like "yes, let's heavily feature a real-world company as a core plot point"? I feel like the much easier way to do this would be to like, idk, take it to a museum?

I would love it if all this Google-talk came back around to bite the characters before the end but based on the reviews I have read, it doesn't seem like Google ever gets portrayed in any other light than hero worship.... Also, the author must specify every time that the main character guy owns a Macbook. And a kindle. They talk about Skype. The product placement bores me.

The book is from 2012 so I think a lot of things just didn't age well. There's a lot of oogling at technology that now feels ancient (like video calling) and mentions of apps that were popular at the time such as Fruit Ninja. There will always be things that don't age well in fiction but I feel like as an author it is not all that difficult to minimize your references to certain things in order to keep a story grounded so it doesn't feel horribly outdated after barely a decade.

But I am also just sour because I assumed going into it that this was a kind of magical realism story about an old bookshop and instead it seems like megacorp tech worship.

#quara asks #quara talks books #sorry if you've read this and liked it i think it was a ny times bestseller so im sure some people here might have read it #if you have read it and it does get better after like 50% in let me know

[franticvampirereads]

I kept forgetting to do my yellow stack! But I finally remembered to do it today 😊. Thank you for the tags @sleepyreads and @booktheraepy! I also realized that I don’t have a lot of books with yellow covers/spines, so this was a nice challenge!

Books in the stack from top to bottom:

- All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris

- The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

- Running With Lions by Julian Winters

- Real Vampires Don’t Diet by Gerry Bartlett

- Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

- City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

I’m tagging: @ninja-muse @bookishfreedom @godzilla-reads @glitterghost and anyone who hasn’t done this tag but would like to!

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"There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.... Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in."

#please feel free to ignore this #I'm reading Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore #This book is REALLY rough in the like middle third of it but I'm glad I finished it because the ending was actually pretty good #I still don't think I'd recommend it but there were definitely parts I liked especially this paragraph