Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan is a book more about computers than books. I was very excited to read this book about a small bookstore in San Francisco, only to find it was really about secret societies and breaking codes using mega computers and finding eternal life and very little about books.

That all sounds pretty cool, and some would probably love this, but personally I was disappointed; maybe because I’m jaded at this point and few books written by men live up to my expectations.