pick#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I enjoyed seeing Mr. Penumbra as a young man and learning how he became the sprightly senior citizen he became in Mr. Penumbra‘s 24-Hour Bookstore. Recommended.
DieAReader 🥳Great 3mo
TheSpineView Fantastic! 3mo
Ajax Penumbra 1969 | 
pick#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I enjoyed seeing Mr. Penumbra as a young man and learning how he became the sprightly senior citizen he became in Mr. Penumbra‘s 24-Hour Bookstore. Recommended.
pickInspired by @Suelizbeth ‘s review which made me remember how much I enjoyed Mr Penumbra‘s 24 hour book store - I didn‘t know that there was a prequel novella - about how Ajax found the 24 hour bookshop and it was a delight!
pickThis is a prequel to Mr. Penumbra‘s 24 Hour Bookstore, a backstory of Ajax Penumbra. I didn‘t know that I needed to read this. And now, I want to reread Mr. Penumbra‘s 24 Hour Bookstore. This goes back to the very founding of the bookstore and just pulls you right in. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickA lovely companion piece to Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore. I have every intent of picking up Sourdough because this proves I am enchanted by Robin Sloan's writing style. Of course, there's every possibility I'm charmed by the shared love of books, which always confers warm fuzzies. 🥰📚🔍
pickThe prequel to Mr. Penumbra‘s 24 Hour Bookstore. A quick little audio book that tells the back story of Mr. Penumbra and how he got into the bookshop. It was nice but not necessary to have Penumbra‘s backstory.
Had fun reading both Mr. Penumbra books.Also enjoyed reading Sourdough both for #LitsyBookClub & #CoverToCover now I‘ve got to find Robin Sloann‘s Kickstarter book, Annabel Scheme! 🥖 📚 🥖
Brief diversion with a library hold, the prequel to Mr Penumbra 👍🏻, and now back our regularly scheduled reading. #myyearwithagatha
pickI loved Mr. Penumbra‘s 24 Hour Bookstore, so it was fun to revisit that universe in this short prequel. I would honestly read a whole series about this if I could! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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pickI really liked this little novel. A good set up for Mr. Penumbras 24 Hour Bookstore.
pickSuch a fun quick little read. I really enjoyed it. I could resist it after 24 Hour bookstore. It was a perfect complement. Last book of 2017.
Sooo yeah I'm totally reading short books to up my Goodreads Number. Next up Alan Cumming's You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams. At just over 3 Hours on Audible, I can finish it today. 😬 #bookishconfessions #134 #11days2go #listenwhileyouwork #goals
pickFun to see young Mr Penumbra and learn his story. Quick read I finished it in about a hour. Love the list of books that where at the book store in 1969.
The shortest book I read this year—this was a fun prequel novella to Mr. Penumbra‘s 24-Hour Bookstore. #allthebooksof2017 #shortestbookyouread
Listening to the story of Mr. Penumbra's first trip to San Francisco. Yay for hoopla!
pickI liked the background on Penumbra and I really think this sets up more novellas.
pickI was t sure how to mark this. I enjoyed it but it was too short. Tells the backstory of how Ajax Penumbra come to California.. but that's it.. there is a whole cast of characters I now want to know more about
"Well, you know our saying: It's not over until you hold the book's ashes in your hands, weeping at the years you've lost."
"I did not know we had that saying, sir."
pickIf you liked Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore, you will probably want to read this short book about how Penumbra found the store and came to work there.
so-soI seriously loved the first book and have told so many people about it. This one was just not great for me. I think it was okay and definitely worthwhile if you are fans of the first one, but it just overall needed more. It felt rushed and there were so many opportunities that were missed to develop the story. I like the overall idea, but it didn't come close to Mr Penumbra at all for me.
pickCharming prequel to Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, makes me hope for other stories of the bookstore.
pickThis is a quick back story to Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. It's a light, fun, and imaginative read. I'm glad to know more about how Ajax came to be Mr. Penumbra. Of course, I found Cortiva to be just as endearingly irritating as well.
Once again, like I felt after reading the larger book, I am aching for a visit to the City now. (San Francisco for those in the know.)
pickLast night, after being overwhelmed by children from morning to night, I gave up on my rather depressing current read for a bit and read this cute novella, the prequel to Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. It's only 65 pages so would make an excellent #24in48 read!
pickA fantastic and compelling backstory to the novel! It makes me want to read it again, and I very rarely reread anything. I enjoyed learning what brought Mr. Penumbra to the 24 hour bookstore!
Let's see how long it takes to read this one.
pickI've enjoyed Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore & this is supposed to be the prequel to it but I read it after Mr Penumbra's. Anyway, Robin Sloan only wrote this short prequel in concert with Mr Penumbra's paperback release. It tells of the young Ajax Penumbra arriving in San Francisco, in search of a very old book that might possess strange powers & how he ends up at the bookstore that carries his name. Interesting read but the sequel was more fun.
#SeasonsReadings2016 I haven't read this one yet, but it is a prequel to Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. I'm pretty sure I got this at #brlive last year! #SetInLibrariesBookstores
Read this 90-page prequel to "Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" as either an introduction or a background to "24." The geographical setting is consistent. But the dateline in the prequel is 30 years prior. Meet young Ajax Penumbra and his associates in this intro to a most unusual bookstore.
pickI loved this little novella even more than 24-Hour Bookstore! It filled in some plot holes, flushed out Penumbra as a character, and had the same enjoyable local info as the novel. This will either get you revved up for 24-Hour or will make a lovely dessert afterward.
Congrats Ajax! Condolences to the family of Officer Lemire. Can't recall anything about him. I don't think his name was mentioned until now. I have 16 pages to go. Then on to "Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore." It's funny that he sounds old in that title; but in "1969," he's fresh out of college.
HPB: I lucked up on this prequel to "Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore." It's only 91 pages; so I'm reading it before I get my hands on "24." I also found the first of a 2-book series. I've been holding out for it before reading the second one. And look! Both authors share the same last name!
