45. A book related to a game

[NancyJ]

I moved my other two books to other prompts, and chose this instead. Football/soccer is a key focus of the small town, and the character's new life.

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman

[Adam]

Read God of War: The Official Novelization.

Haven’t played the game but I know enough to follow along. Works for the most part, but some parts are very obviously tutorial sections transcribed in narrative form.

[dalex]

I found the perfect book for this prompt - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. It was just published earlier this month and it is absolutely brilliant. I read almost the entire thing (400+ pages) in one non-stop reading session and it's my favorite book of the year so far.

The synopsis doesn't even begin to do justice to this book. It follows three friends from college through adulthood. They design video games and found a company that creates and distributes games.

It is very much a character driven novel. The characters are intriguing and flawed and fascinating. I loved how the author developed them and I loved how they interacted with each other.

The story is so well crafted and the writing style is exquisite without being too clever and pretentious. I just absolutely loved everything about this book.

I definitely felt a strong personal connection with the book. The characters were born just a few years after me so the cultural aspects and historical events resonated with me. I was a nerdy gamer in my teens and 20s and the characters in the book were the types of people who I was friends with during those years. And the book gave me the same vibe as one of my all-time favorite TV shows "Halt and Catch Fire," which is about a group of friends who are involved in the early days of computers and the invention of the internet.

However, I read other reviews that said that you can absolutely enjoy the book even if you are not, nor have ever been, a gamer. Highly recommended!

[Tracy]

dalex wrote: "I found the perfect book for this prompt - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. It was just published earlier this month and it is absolutely bril..."

Thanks for your review. I recommended this book to my library, who recently bought it. I'm on the waiting list. Looking forward to this book even more than I was before now!

EDIT: I finished reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin this morning. LOVED IT!
Thanks to @dalex, and I believe @Ellie for suggesting it! Much happier reading this than the others I had noted as possibilities.

[Nicola]

I had a few on my 'to be considered' plate for this one, including:
The Player of Games
Blue Adept
Ready Player One
Or even one of the Hunger Games books.

In the end I decided on:
which ties in with the series that I'm trying to finish off.

[Sherri]

I read The Memory of Us. 2 stars. At least it was from my TBR kindle queue.

[Barbara]

I read The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis

[Guylian]

I finally read .

[Pearl]

I read The Joy Luck Club. The women played the game Mahjong for money.

[Laurel]

I read Hot as Puck by Lili Valente. Hockey player and kindergarten teacher who have known each other since they were children move from friends to lovers. Okay romance. I think Sarina Bowen does better hockey romances, especially the latest which feature female hockey players, like Shenanigans.

For a mystery series involving a female golf pro, there's the Lee Ofsted books by Aaron Elkins and Charlotte Elkins.

Agatha Christie also has several good mysteries that involve games, including Cards on the Table (bridge), Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (golf), and A Murder Is Announced (murder game).

[Anastasia]

I choose a Canadian game, not lacrosse. It was surprised that Canada almost did not have an Olympic hockey team in 1948. We always have a hockey team.


Against All Odds: The Untold Story of Canada's Unlikely Hockey Heroes
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Pam]

I read The Westing Game. I wasn’t too impressed with it. I think I would’ve liked it more when I was a kid.

[Trish, Annular Mod]

I ended up looking at the Listopia for inspiration, and was pleased to find Catch Me if You Can on it, which I'd read earlier in the year for the Popsugar challenge. It wouldn't have occurred to me for the prompt, but thinking about it, I can think of a couple of ways why it works.

[Siobhan]

I read Beta Test by Annabeth Albert, a romance novel where the two main characters work on the same video game. This was an incredibly sweet romance with great character development, and I enjoyed it a lot. 5/5

[Marie]

I read, loved, and would definitely recommend Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman.

I'd also recommend I Am the Messenger, The Kite Runner and Dave Gorman's Googlewhack! Adventure.

[Stacey]

I absolutely adored Two Across, a book about love, forgiveness and crossword puzzles by Jeff Bartsch. I also loved how the author gets the tone of the book, set in 1963-1974, exactly right. This was such a cute story. Highly recommended.

[Joanne]

Really doing my best to get caught up here. This is my last November book: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I've started 2 of my 4 December books and am still hoping to finish on time.