“There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.” (288). It’s hard to know what to make of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. It’s a quest, it’s a mystery, it’s one man finding himself, and it’s the coalescing of a group of friends. It’s all this and more. Clocking in at fewer than 300 pages, Robin Sloan manages to craft an epic adventure for his protagonist and his merry band of players. And it’s simply delightful. The story is based […]
and now, another Penumbra review
I’m probably the tenth person to review Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore this year on the CBR, but without all those previous reviews I probably wouldn’t have heard about this novel since it’s a bit out of my typical genre. I’m a bit more “chick lit” and “historic fiction” with some YA fiction thrown in the mix. Mr. Penumbra has a bit more of a fantastical element then I look for; I prefer my books a bit more grounded in reality but this was a fun […]
ambern’s #CBR6 Review #1
After a year of reading and not reviewing, I’m determined to actually meet my goal of a full cannonball this year and hopefully finish the giant pile of books that I can’t fit on my shelf. Consolidating my books has not gone well. This is another book that my mom picked up in the free pile at work; she finds the most interesting books that way. She insisted that I would enjoy this one and the title seemed fitting for the first book of the […]