Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel

this book cover glows in the dark! I didn’t know until one night I saw it as I was falling asleep and it kinda spooked me for a second

this book is fun to read, sort of like a less intense davinci code. it doesn’t require too much brainpower to follow along but there are some easter eggs and lots of mystery to try and predict if you want to use your noggin. if you want to read the book because you saw the title and love books and are expecting something like the starless sea, change your expectations!! it’s not super bookish despite the title

enjoyable but didn’t leave a big impression otherwise, plot almost reads like the books i’d read in middle school (like mr lemoncellos library funnily enough)

rating: 3.5

p.s. the mention of mturk gave me flashbacks

Fun, enjoyable, quick, wise, happy, and the best last page of a novel I've ever read.

Quick read, but quite good. I do love a book about books

What a wonderfully beautiful, yet simple little story. I loved every minute of it.

I actually like low stakes slice of life books, so the lack of tension and action in this wasn't a problem for me but might be for some. The problem for me was that the characters were flat and their behavior seemed to be arbitrary.

This reads like a dream that some young average guy might have about getting a hot girlfriend who works at google, having a super rich best friend who pays for whatever they need, and being the first person to solve a huge big mystery, that other people have been trying to solve for ages, by just thinking about it for a little bit.