A book about a book store - are you snoring yet? While the quiet and unassuming Mr. Penumbra's Bookstore in San Fransisco is a focal point of this novel, technology, cryptology, mystery, science fiction and a secret society are what the story truly revolves around. It is 2008 and the once gainfully employed Clay Jannon is a jobless Graphic Designer who begins working the night shift in Mr. Penumbra's Bookstore to pay his bills. As he gets to know the quirks of the store's regular customers he uses his tech and programming skills to inadvertently crack a code of a secret society hundreds of years old. Thus begins the unexpected unraveling of a code breaking race between a technology giant and an old intellectual society, exploring the unlikely communion of technology and the origins of printmaking. As a lover of both technology AND the tried and true paper book, this book satisfied my belief that there is room and a need in our world for both. If nothing else, there are some great chapters taking place at the Google campus that make for fascinating and entertaining commentary on the lifestyles of the technological elite. That, and the books on the cover glow in the dark.
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