Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore, than The Storied Life of A.J. If you are still pining for Ajax Penumbra, the lovable curmudgeon of a bookstore owner introduced in Mr. ― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and - I imagine this goes without saying - vampires. I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages. I do not like children’s books, especially ones with orphans, and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and crossbreeding rarely results in anything satisfying. I do not like genre mash-ups a la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful.
I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn’t be-basically gimmicks of any kind. I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism.
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