“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines — it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.” I have read so many reviews of this book, mostly here on Cannonball Read, so I don’t really have anything new to add to the subject. I also strongly feel like it’s one of those books that’s more fun if you know nothing going into it: just sit down, and start reading. Briefly, it stars Clay Jannon as an unemployed web designer […]
I prefer bookstores
“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 […]
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 […]