Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Pre-Reading Discussion

[Winter, Group Reads]

This month we will be reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

This is your space to chat about this month's book selection with other readers. There is no set schedule to follow, and no discussion leader is assigned. Everyone should feel free to post comments, share pertinent articles or interviews, ask questions, share likes or dislikes, etc. Most importantly, enjoy reading together!

This book was nominated by Alina for our monthly theme Games.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.

[Winter, Group Reads]

What prompted you to join this group read?
Have you read this author before? What do you think of their other books?

[Marcia]

This is my first group read. The book was given to me by my daughter, who is a voracious reader, and was sitting on my pile of books to read. Seemed like a perfect prompt to dust it off and start reading it.

[Lara]

This is my second group read, Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow is being read by others I know. As a lover of reading I'm keen to get their opinions and share my own.

[Alina]

I read this a while back. I really like video-games too and this book really stuck with me - I hope you all will be enjoying this!

[Amitha]

This is my first group read. I used to be an avid reader but got busy with life. I have joined this group to kick start my reading habit again and to achieve my reading goal for this year. I bought this book few months back after the raves it created when it was published. Looking forward to reading with y’all !

[Laura]

I've been in a pretty major reading slump this year, life has just become a bit much and i'm not prioritising things I love at the minute so hoping this will bring me out of that. It has been on my shelf for a while and this is my first ever group read so I am looking forward to it!

[Gina Marie]

I've heard a lot of great reviews of this book since it came out a few years ago. I've had it on my TBR list and now seemed like a good time to pull it out and discuss with others as I read it.

[Carrie]

I have had this book on my tbr for a while now but cannot remember what made me add it. I had thought to maybe read it in February for one of the time challenges but did not get to it. I also have a goal to read at least half of this year's monthly group reads in this group so obviously this had to be one of them. I will be honest, I am going in blind and have no idea what it is even about but looking forward to finding out!

[Karin]

Although I've liked a novel by Zevin, I loathed this one so much I DNF after a few chapters even though some of my GR friends loved it! It's amazing how differently we experience books, isn't it?