I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstorein Hardcover edition on October 2, 2012 and has 288 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon A preposterous conspiracy of historic and typographical proportions involving Aldus Manutius and Google in San Francisco! In 2013, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore won the ALA Alex Award and was nominated for The Kitschies for Golden Tentacle (Debut). My Take This was a lighthearted joy and should appeal especially to anyone interested in fonts, typography, books, bookstores, and computer coding! And if you want to know how this all works together, well, you’ll just have to read it! A little bit love and a little bit computer coding all wrapped up in a mysterious conspiracy. One that’s been operating for centuries with groups struggling to decode the clues. It’s a conflict between traditionalists and computer geeks. The geeks will enjoy the descriptions of Clay’s playing and the atmosphere and excitement at the Google campus. I know I did…! Well, I also enjoyed Mat’s artistic efforts. My fingers kept itching to get into the studio! I […]

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Twerpon May 28, 2013 and has 290 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon It’s six months in the life of Julian Twerski — a very bright young man in 1969. In 2015, Twerp was nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award. My Take It’s good. I love the flow of Goldblatt’s writing, and he really captures the mind of a twelve-year-old. It’s a structured stream of consciousness as Julian writes what he thinks of his teacher, his task, and his own actions. Actions that will have a far-reaching effect on his future and his becoming a man. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. You’ll shake your head. Some of it will bring back memories of your own. It was slow to get started, but once I got a third of the way in or so, things perked up and the reading just flew by. It was so perfectly a boy’s childhood with the playing, the pranks, the worries, the sister, the mishaps. And boys who are easily led. For the most part, the […]

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.HomelandIt is part of the , , Forgotten Realms, Dungeons & Dragons series and is a in eBook edition on June 23, 2009 and has 314 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon First in the Legend of Drizzt fantasy series, which I think is a sub series within the Forgotten Realm series. This particular story starts in the city of Menzoberranzan in the Underdark with its twenty thousand drow. My Take This was just nasty. Well-written in the details although it had too many incongruities that no one caught, or that Salvatore simply didn’t care about in this story about a culture that prizes lying, murder, assassination, and betrayal. I really didn’t want to give it a “4”; I’d have preferred a “3” or less, but it would be incredibly unfair simply because I despise the main thrust of the “country”. Or because I really hate it when authors create unpronounceable names that I have to struggle over. I do have to give Salvatore credit for writing so well and consistently of such […]