Introducing Our July Book Club Pick...
We are OBSESSED with Shit You Should Read About 📚
Besties, we have LOVED our first month of Shit You Should Read About - the Substack chats have been popping off, you’re all loving the Instagram, and most importantly Romantic Comedy was a HIT!
If you’re new here, Shit You Should Read About is for the hotties who aren’t gonna sit through a dense text for the sole purpose of impressing a snob. It’s for the ones who suffer under the paradox of choice and simply can’t pick from the endless stream of new releases hitting the shelves each day. We probs haven't read the classics, we def couldn't tell you the difference between the use of omniscient third person and the scintillating use of sympathetic background (lol, throwing back to high school English there).
But, we can tell you that life is too short to read shitty books, so let us shepherd you through some old faves, some new releases (carefully selected by us AND you) and unpack them together in a completely un-pretench way as we go along. Sound cute?
July’s Pick!!
For July we wanted to pick one of my FAVOURITE books from the past few years (and one I actually saw the author discuss live which made me fall even more in LOVE with it) Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin.
Here’s the synopsis to get you going:
In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.
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.
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