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“I can’t remember the last murder on Camino Island.” Nat said, “It’s Hoppy Durden. He also does bank robberies.” “I can’t remember the last bank robbery.” “He’s not very busy.”

Camino Winds (Camino Island #2) by John Grisham

September 12, 2024 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

A Time to Kill. Pelican Brief. The Firm. The Client. The Street Lawyer. The Rooster Bar. etc. My reading of John Grisham predates my use of Goodreads so I can’t be sure which I’ve read (as the titles start to blend together) but I have a post from 2016 that said I read “all of his fiction work” so yeah, I am pretty DEEP with Grisham. I’ve found him enjoyable but as the years have gone by a bit less believeable, and a bit more […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: bookseller, camino island #2, camino winds, John Grisham

cheerbrarian's CBR16 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: bookseller, camino island #2, camino winds, John Grisham ·
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I Have Always Imagined that Paradise Will Be a Kind of Library

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

August 19, 2019 by allisonata 2 Comments

Have you ever felt that a book was written just for you? Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is my Platonic ideal: a novel by an Elder Millennial, set in an alternate San Francisco Bay Area populated by talented, curious people, weird-but-plausible technologies, and endless shelves of books. By the time I discovered the in-story trilogy of fantasy novels and the credible centuries-old secret society, I committed to becoming a Sloan completist. Our initially hapless first-person hero Clay Jannon is looking for a job, any job. His […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: bibliophile, bookseller, cbr11, Robin Sloan, San Francisco, secret society

allisonata's CBR11 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: bibliophile, bookseller, cbr11, Robin Sloan, San Francisco, secret society ·
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