Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin was all over my radar last year, both on official “Best of 2022” lists and in more informal recommendations from friends. I didn’t quite get to it in 2022 (partially because I was 657th on the waitlist at the library for it!), but I found it to be well worth the wait and I’m so happy to have started off 2023 on a strong note with it.  The plot of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow follows best […]

What better way to kickstart 2023 than to read what every outlet, including Book of the Month (which I received the book from), named as their book of the year? Well, having now read it, I wish I’d instead continued to put it off until tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. The first half of the book was passable enough, I thought, but that the most positivity I could manage then, and I feel misguided being even that positive in hindsight. Yesterday, I woke up sick […]

I wish I had waited just a day to write my best-of list, because I would absolutely add this book. I loved being in this world, with these characters. Sam and Sadie meet when they are young, in a children’s hospital, in the 1980s – the time of The Oregon Trail (among other games). Sam is a patient, recovering from a terrible car accident that will have life-long repercussions for his feet (not to mention his mental state). Sadie’s older sister Alice has cancer (a […]