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Dear Bookclub,
Stars lined up in the sunny sky above as five of us gathered on the Veranda and ordered five steak wedge salads and five iced teas. Somewhere, code was generated from the AI gathered in the kitchen.
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| Zevin - New York Times |
Code creators and video games propelled the world of Gabrielle Zevin's imaginative "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow". We all enjoyed it, excepting Val, who we missed and would love to hear her thoughts when we reconvene. Also, wonder if she would have ordered the steak wedge and iced tea, stepping to that other drummer. Lamenting the tedium that accompanies literature checking 'all the boxes' that Zevin fell prey to, I was struck by another perspective on this practice. Jennifer Egan's library was featured in the San Diego Union Tribune's "Books" section in Sunday's paper.
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| http://enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=7b6f621c-9022-49ef-ba13-fce201d3d936 |
Egan states: "Fiction contains more compressed information abut an era then anything else. If you're looking for the maximum quantity of information , you can't beat it, because it contains all the things that went without saying. History is all about saying what needs to be said; fiction tells a story, and and then it tells the story the writer didn't know they were telling - didn't know they had to tell."
Please enjoy the full article, which I adored for her need to be surrounded by all those books.
As readers of Zevin's novel, we gained a perspective of those thirty years covered that we never experienced. The book, one of nine she has published, had a surprising success perhaps attributable to the over 40 crowd getting that 'maximum quantity of information' about the gaming world we never played. In decades to come, those checked boxes may serve the purpose of staging the era(s) represented.
Please enjoy this piece, illuminating Zevin's path as a writer and unexpected success with this latest novel:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/books/gabrielle-zevin-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow.html
Terrie's suggestions for an upcoming read:
"The River We Remember" William Kent Krueger *chosen
"The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future" Robert P. Jones
"Lady Tan's Circle of Women" Lisa See
"The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" James McBride
Up next:
Happy reading,
LK
