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Several members have stated an interest in buddy reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Please feel free to discuss in this thread. Everyone is free to join the discussion. Use spoiler tags as needed.



In this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.

I am at 16%, like it so far

I started this today. I’m roughly 50 pages in.

I think so far my biggest takeaway is that the author’s word choice and language don’t feel as though they match the story so far. One of the ones stuck in my head is her use of the word detente, to describe a look between Sam and Sadie. It feels like the authors saying “I’m writing about smart people, I am also very smart.”

I have just got to the end of the first section and am really enjoying it so far. Sadie's game sounds so chilling!

Christopher wrote: "I think so far my biggest takeaway is that the author’s word choice and language don’t feel as though they match the story so far. One of the ones stuck in my head is her use of the word detente, t..."

I'm not a fan of that. I prefer stories to be more relatable and easy to get lost in. I don't want the author trying to prove their intelligence.

The story is intriguing so far. The way the story is being told is interesting as well as it lends itself to showing a preview of what’s to come without explicitly saying it. It’s definitely present day past and future all kind of mixed together. Little snippets from each time period with little pieces of information thrown in at each stage.

Yeah i like how the story goes so far and the style in wich its written.

I finished it, i really liked 2/3 of the book. The ending for me was a bit long. I gave it 4 stars, but stil dont really know how i feel about it😅

I wish I liked this book as much as most everyone did, but it was a bit of a let down for me...too much gaming haha and sadly I didn't really care for either of our 2 main characters.

Corin, I’m with you. I didn’t really enjoy this. I feel like I’m in the minority so many good things written about this book. So many praises heaped upon it and I just don’t see it.

The gaming stuff didn’t bother me. The book feels like the author was like let me throw in things that are popular. BDSM, but lightly, all consensual apparently, but incredibly painful and unwanted by one party. Then the main characters are just awful. By the end I didn’t care about either of them.

The book also gives away the entire plot in the first section. The hospital scenes in the beginning give away the main characters entire relationship, when they are gaming they are close, when they are not they are not friends. Another character is going to suffer a terrible fate, once we learn some is an actor and understudy for MacBeth. The stolen title says this book should be a huge battle, a war for the fate of gaming, a romance that transcends time, yet we are left with a couple that never talks to each other. We learn that one main character actually likes another, we have a love triangle from jump.

This book was a struggle to finish. The structure of jumping from time to time was not well intentioned. The author simply shifts to a different time, but doesn’t reveal anything useful during these jumps. I think I’ll pass on Ludo Sextus.

Jealous of you all reading this! I loved it and wish I could read it for the first time again. It's interesting to read all of your thoughts on it and see the difference in opinions!

I'm about halfway through now. Already getting a bit sick of Sadie and Sam constantly falling out and making up.

I finished the book and ending up really liking it. This is my review:

When a book on a topic that I'm not that knowledgeable on or interested in can grab me like this, it is something very special. I was truly invested in these characters even when they were acting in ways that frustrated or upset me, I really wanted everything to turn out well for them. I feel like I went on a journey through the ups and downs of their lives and was celebrating and commiserating with them.

This book gave me a much deeper understanding and appreciation of video games and the ways that playing them can mean different things to different people: a creative outlet, a de-stressor, a way to escape your life and live out another, a way to challenge your preconceptions. All this and more was explored here with aplomb. I will be recommending this book to lots of people in my life.