Book Title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Date Started: April 5th 2025
Date Completed: April 18th 2025
Genres: Contemporary, Adventure
Quality Rating: Five Stars
Enjoyment Rating: Five Star
Final Rating: Five Stars
Review:
Sometimes when you finish a book you feel like there's this space in your heart that suddenly so full, and desperate for the pages to keep being there to turn. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow was like that for me. It filled up something within me. Some call it pretentious, and honestly I understand that - but it was more nuanced for me. Arrogance with soul and vulnerability is just being a human in a room you're scared of sometimes. I just fell for this book, entirely.
I have never ever read a representation of a creative partnership like this; the good, the bad and the very ugly. It was so resonant for me, and it made me realise that I often forget that most people will never experience it. I adored that all the characters were genuinely impeded in their lives by their flaws - and by the end, they're not solved. They've just learned to live with them and that in itself was really their growth.
Zevin clearly loves video games truly, and I loved that their inclusion in the book wasn't inaccessible and full of self-gratuitous references, but rather explorative of that medium of storytelling. I knew some of the titles, didn't recognise others, and had played only a few of them - but the story was so celebratory of the craft in general the experience was enriched just from learning about them within the context of the characters' own ambitions on the field. I spent most of this book feeling like I was reading my own life - despite the many strong differences to my own experiences. But that's escapism at its most magical and transformative - just like a video game is.
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