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A review by bdilley28
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
A book about love and loss and video games.
"You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you..."
"Sam had asked his grandmother how she'd gotten through the time after his mother's death. She'd had a business to run, a sick grandson to care for, presumably her own grief to work through, though she was deeply unsentimental and never mentioned it... 'The beginning was the hardest, but then days passed, and months, and years, and you got better, and it was not quite so hard...'"
"She had once read in a book about consciousness that over the years, the human brain makes an AI version of your loved ones...She could feel herself forgetting all the details of Marx-the sound of his voice, the feeling of his fingers and they way they gestured, his precise temperature, his scent on clothing, the way he looked walking away, or running up a flight of stairs. Eventually, Sadie imagined that Marx would be reduced to a single image: just a man standing under a distance tore gate, holding his hat in his hands, waiting for her."
"The length of time it had taken Dong Hyun to die also meant he had said everything he wanted to say to Sam, his cousins, and his grandmother. Was this trade worth his suffering?"
"You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you..."
"Sam had asked his grandmother how she'd gotten through the time after his mother's death. She'd had a business to run, a sick grandson to care for, presumably her own grief to work through, though she was deeply unsentimental and never mentioned it... 'The beginning was the hardest, but then days passed, and months, and years, and you got better, and it was not quite so hard...'"
"She had once read in a book about consciousness that over the years, the human brain makes an AI version of your loved ones...She could feel herself forgetting all the details of Marx-the sound of his voice, the feeling of his fingers and they way they gestured, his precise temperature, his scent on clothing, the way he looked walking away, or running up a flight of stairs. Eventually, Sadie imagined that Marx would be reduced to a single image: just a man standing under a distance tore gate, holding his hat in his hands, waiting for her."
"The length of time it had taken Dong Hyun to die also meant he had said everything he wanted to say to Sam, his cousins, and his grandmother. Was this trade worth his suffering?"