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I remember playing Super Mario Brother's when I was younger, the thrill of landing at the top of the pole and saving the princess. I also remember my brother throwing the remote at me and hitting me square between the eyes, but that's another story for another day.

Zelda was another favorite of ours, along with Mike Tyson's Punch Out (embarrassing) and some basketball game that I can't remember the name.

I've never read a book where gaming was the theme and this book brought a sense a nostalgia that I really enjoyed.

The intense and sometimes strained relationship between all the characters really pulled at my heartstrings. I love a good coming of age story and here, you were able to watch multiple characters as they grew from young video game programmers to adults in the business. You could feel their emotions through the pages. The concern they had for one another, the anger, the jealousy, the success, the love, it was almost tangible.

I really liked it.

I thought for sure this was going to be a 5 star read for me, but at over 400 pages it just came down to length.

The first half of this book was stunning, but towards the end it just started to fizzle out for me.

I can see where some may take issue with the language in this book. Thank you Kindle dictionary as I'm not ashamed to admit that I used that bad boy more than a handful of times, but that didn't bother me.

I'm still giving this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ because I was so emotionally invested in these characters and would definitely read another book by Gabrielle Zevin.

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Long overdue in reviewing this beautifully written story. Sadie and Sam meet as kids in the game room of a hospital where Sam is recovering from surgery and Sadie waits while her sister is undergoing treatment. They instantly bond over their love of gaming. The friendship continues when they meet up again during their college years in Boston, one at MIT, the other at Harvard. They reunite and begin creating their own video games, quite successfully. Despite this being about gaming, which I have no interest in, it is a coming of age/friendship story, at times lovely, at times fraught with great difficulties and misunderstandings. You do not have to like or understand gaming to love this story.

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This is a complicated and generous book about friendship, creativity, betrayal, time, identity, connection, and love. Those who love gaming may appreciate this book even more. Highly recommend. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!

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Honestly, when I read the publisher’s opening statement about video gaming, I thought I had made a HUGE mistake in requesting this book from NetGalley. While I don’t often find my mistakes to not be errors, in this case it was a wonderful ‘mistake’. While gaming is vehicle that drives the characters, this book is truly about young adults trying to understand themselves and each other. As we all do, these young people not only made great successes, they also made great mistakes. The author had been reading it as fast as I could-sometimes she had me laughing out loud and sometimes she brought tears to my eyes. But, throughout the book, she kept me engaged. I don’t like putting spoilers in my reviews so you’ll just have to read it for yourself.

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A relationship based on video games! Count me in. I thought this book was a lot of fun and i love met in childhood, reconnect later stories. I do wish they hadn’t met in the hospital though, I felt like we have read that so much before and the rest of the book was much more original.

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I am, and always have been, terrible at video games. Even Atari “Pong” was challenging for me. I never really played them as a kid, and the role-playing games are definitely way beyond me. So, I was really surprised to be as absorbed in and unexpectedly moved by Gabrielle Zevin’s TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW, which centers around two video game obsessed characters, Sadie and Sam. They meet as kids, when Sam is in the hospital following a horrific car crash that has completely mangled his foot, and Sadie is there because her sister is undergoing cancer treatment. They spend hours (609 hours, to be exact) playing games, and go on to become wildly successful video game designers as adults.
Of course, what makes the novel great is that it really isn’t about video games, as much as it is about the fact that life is complicated. Friendship is complicated. Love is complicated. These are all universal truths we can relate to. Disability is also complicated, and as a person born with one, I felt a special kinship with Sam, and was thrilled with the sensitivity and accuracy with which Zevin depicts what it’s like to have permanent limited mobility. Zevin’s writing throughout is clearly carefully thought out, layered with meaning and small bursts of beauty. But it all feels so completely organic and effortless. I came to love all the characters and was really sad when I got to “GAME OVER”.

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While video games are a key element of the plot, I didn't feel it was necessary for someone to play them to enjoy this book. I don't play video games but my son does and this book actually gave me a lot of insight into everything from the designing to the marketing, all of which was presented in such a natural way, as part of the overall character development and story, that the story was still completely relatable.

Ultimately, this is a story about relationships - the ones that come easily and the ones that are incredibly complicated, the ones that we learn from and the ones where we become the teacher. It's about enduring friendships and characters with real flaws who are doing their best to navigate their way through life. At times hopeful and at others heartbreaking, it was a beautiful story - raw and real.

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Fabulous story with rich characters that explore the relationships in our lives. Who do you consider family? Does that change over time? Gabrielle Zevin explores these questions in her new title that is a must read!

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Thanks to NetGalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest opinion.

Loved this one and learned so much while reading! Didn’t think I could be so interested in video game development. Also loved the section written from the POV of a video game character. Like nothing I’ve ever read before.

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I loved the characters in this book from the first moment the author introduced me to them. This book was a pleasant surprise. The plot was unique and the character’s were multifaceted and had such depth. I didn’t give this book five stars because near the end of the book the story became a bit stale for me and my interest faded but overall I would still highly recommend it.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me an early release in exchange for a fair and honest review.

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I just loved this book. A story of love and friendship that incidentally centers around the collaborative creative process that is game development. I honestly think it's my favorite thing that Zevin has written, and that's a pretty high bar when I look at some of her other works I've loved.

I'll post a longer review closer to publication. I plan to keep up intermittent social media coverage in the months before release.

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I am admittedly not a video game person, yet this is one of the best books I've read in years! If anything I gained an appreciation of the craft that goes into creating a game as well as the marketing tools that fail to give the creators all the credit they deserve. Zevin captures college life in the 90s/ early 2000s with pitch perfect accuracy, right down to the Magic Eye posters.

This such a deep story of love and the friendships that endure against the backdrop of creative and technological growth. I loved these characters and never wanted it to end!

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4.5 out of 5. This was a book I was not supposed to like. I do not like video games, I actually kind of dislike them. However this book got me hooked. It is not about gaming, it is a book about lives, relationships and what makes us whole. What our passions are and how life gets in the way for better or for worse. Life is a game and we are just players. two of my favorite quotes from the book stem from that:
And this is the truth of any game - it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It is the same as being an actor. In the end all we can ever know is the game that was played in the only world that we know"
What is a game? .. its tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Its the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent
<p>I loved the characters, i loved the supporting characters and the descriptions are so vivid they came alive in my head. I actually felt i know how the games were and again I don't even play games (save for my daily wordle and solitaire adventures)
Why doesn't it get a full 5 rating - it did go a bit long, the whole inside the game section at the end was a bit tedious and it just made me want to fast read. Also i wanted an epilogue - I want to know more! all this talk and we get an ambiguous ending. I admire the poetic beauty of it but tell me what happened!

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I really liked this book. Although I wasn’t the biggest fan of the characters I liked the way the author slowly lets us in to each character’s life and how their experiences shaped them. I loved how unconventionally Sadie and Sam meet and how they bond as the story progresses. I also liked seeing the ups and downs of their relationship. The gaming world was a cool setup that added to their situation and how their company impacted their friendship. It had some parts that were really heartbreaking but were handled in interesting ways and gave me a high level of respect for the author and the writing. Overall, a good read. 4 stars.

CW: death of a friend and family

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This book was about relationships and the gaming world. I am not a gamer but I do have some knowledge from my husband which I think helped me understand this book better. I thought some of the gaming parts were interesting but what kept me reading was the relationship between Sam and Sadie. Their relationship that could seem superficial at times to Sadie was obviously critical for each other and it seemed inevitable that their lives would and should be intertwined. I really enjoyed the first half of this book but the second half was slow for me at times. Overall a very enjoyable read but maybe a bit longer than I wanted it to be.


<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58784475-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1636978687l/58784475._SX98_.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58784475-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow">Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/40593.Gabrielle_Zevin">Gabrielle Zevin</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4648637618">4 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
<br />This book was about relationships and the gaming world. I am not a gamer but I do have some knowledge from my husband which I think helped me understand this book better. I thought some of the gaming parts were interesting but what kept me reading was the relationship between Sam and Sadie. Their relationship that could seem superficial at times to Sadie was obviously critical for each other and it seemed inevitable that their lives would and should be intertwined. I really enjoyed the first half of this book but the second half was slow for me at times. Overall a very enjoyable read but maybe a bit longer than I wanted it to be.
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Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for a fair review.

I am a Gen-Xer from Boston with an early background in computer programming so I was thrilled when I read the synopsis of this book. Paired with a love of the Storied Life of AJ Fickry and I was so down with this book!
The book was fun and it moved alright, but there was something missing for me. I wanted the two to come together so badly but it never happened. I wasn't as moved as I was with Fickry, even though I should have been. The characters were relatable enough, the gaming lingo wasn't off putting, but it just didn't move well enough to tip me over into 'love'.
Nevertheless, I would recommend this book for a patron looking for a light summery read or who has a similar background or wants to harken back to an earlier time. I wouldn't reach for this for a book discussion however.
4* rounded up

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one of those books where the characters are real; these lives feel lived. the details do not feel like they came from an imagination, too crisp and specific to be fiction and yet it is. a masterpiece.

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I loved this book! Part videogame drama like Ready Player One, part romance, and part drama, I was captivated from the start and loved all the twists and turns. It was creative and captivating at the same time.

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It is really hard to summarize on its face fiction story about a couple of a game designers but it’s so much more just like a game at has multiple levels. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and couldn’t wait to get back to it every single time. I really enjoy technology fiction and this sets among some of the best I’ve read. They were plot twists that I won’t give away, and I didn’t see those coming but that was enjoyable too. I can’t wait till this is out and I can buy it as a gift for people. Definitely worth reading.

#TomorrowandTomorrowandTomorrow #NetGalley

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I loved this book - consumed it and consumed by it over the course of 4 days (would have been fewer if I hadn't had to live my life instead of immersing myself in theirs).

I requested an advanced copy of this book after having been almost equally swept up in the world of AJ Fikry in Zevin's previous novel. I'm sad that this book hasn't even officially published yet, as it means that the next world that Zevin creates is that much farther away from publishing.

This book is about characters who create worlds as game designers, but regrettably (am I projecting with this word choice?) also have to live in the real world. It is about friendship, secrets and vulnerability, and growing up.

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