First,
let me just tell you that I was bamboozled. I think when I downloaded this
audiobook, there should have been a warning that I would miss out on the
glow-in-the-dark feature on the actual book. Seriously, it’s like no one has
heard of informed consent! Ok, anyway. This is probably one of my favorite books of the year so far, but I’m not sure that it’s for everyone. Here’s why it was the right book at the right time for me:
It’s
about books and a bookstore and I am a nerd. Do I have to explain this one? No.
The characters visit several book stores and warehouses full of amazing tomes
and artifacts. Hello! That’s good stuff.
It
is about geeks talking about geek stuff and I am a geek. If you don’t like
video games, technology, the internet, making things from cardboard and clay,
or geeking out, this book will not hit you in the G (eek) spot like it did for
me. Hehe… that’s funny. See what I did there?
There
is an adventure that geeks go on that relates to stuff they read in fantasy
novels as teens and I am, again, a big geeky nerd. What!? The last time my 15yo
and I were in a library we imagined that behind the shelves there was doorway
to Narnia and Diagon Ally. Even though the shelf was, indeed, a door, it was a
secondary entrance to a conference room. No satres, no dragons, no underground
book society. So, yeah. This book totally gives you that grown up taste of
discovery and adventure.
Spectacular
book quote:
"There
is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with
care."
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