For months, the attractive young man who now stood across the library circulation desk from me had made cautious conversational forays toward me, and I had responded in kind. We were both shy people, and our attempts were hampered further because I was working, checking out his books to him. He wasn’t a stranger. I’d …
“A quirky little novel that is both thoughtful and gleeful, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan is simultaneously a mystery and an ode to bookstores and ‘old’ knowledge (versus ‘Google’ knowledge), mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall independent bookstore in San Francisco. Can tangible books and new media exist happily side by side? With a plot ‘as …
