Book Review: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is AMAZING. I loved it. Really. It's chock-full of bibliophile goodness. This is up there with Ready Player One geeky goodness. Clay finds himself unemployed (like many these days) and one day stumbles into a quirky bookstore looking for a late-night clerk. The bookstore is full of books Clay's never heard of before (in fact, no one's heard of them). One night, he gets curious (and bored) and creates a basic computer replica of the bookstore WITH data from the customer logbooks. He spots something strange in the data and there the adventure begins.

Speaking of connecting the dots...It's still funny how everything I read is somehow connected to another recent read. Where'd You Go, Bernadette is full of Microsoft employees and a kind of anti-love letter to Seattle. Mr. Penumbra is full of Google goodness and San Francisco love. (Also, both books are awesome.) - Melissa (Downtown)