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A review by cwinckel
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
II wanted to underline something on almost every page. I felt genuine pain when The characters hurt. I felt so deeply for these characters and I feel like I learned things from this. What a beautiful heart wrenching story.
There’s always a healthy skepticism when a book is recommended to me with high praise. I went into this thinking “it’s about video games. How much can I relate to a book about video games without having grown up playing them?” But this book really pushed me in a lot of ways. I hope to revisit it in the future.
Still a lot to be worked through in terms of my relationship to creating things and this book made me realize that. But what I really appreciate about it, was that it acknowledges both sides of the coin: the part where it takes an immense amount of work, struggle, failure to create something like film scores, videos games or even just writing a good story. But it also shows a powerful/meaningful life doesn’t have to be one filled with the pursuit of these creations and that there are more important things in the world.
Some tough pills to swallow. Some wonderful language to study and learn from. I hope I read this again soon.
There’s always a healthy skepticism when a book is recommended to me with high praise. I went into this thinking “it’s about video games. How much can I relate to a book about video games without having grown up playing them?” But this book really pushed me in a lot of ways. I hope to revisit it in the future.
Still a lot to be worked through in terms of my relationship to creating things and this book made me realize that. But what I really appreciate about it, was that it acknowledges both sides of the coin: the part where it takes an immense amount of work, struggle, failure to create something like film scores, videos games or even just writing a good story. But it also shows a powerful/meaningful life doesn’t have to be one filled with the pursuit of these creations and that there are more important things in the world.
Some tough pills to swallow. Some wonderful language to study and learn from. I hope I read this again soon.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical trauma, Suicide, Physical abuse, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Murder, Grief, Hate crime, and Death of parent