Books
by Gabrielle Zevin
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Elsewhere |
"I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before she crossed the street" - Liz is fifteen - and dead. Her reactions are those of a teenager - anger, disappointment, resentment that she will not get a chance to pass her driving test, go to a prom, acquire a boyfriend. Now she is in Elsewhere - which is very like Earth except one gets younger everyday. Quirky, lively and American this is a refreshing teen read.
(Ferelith Hordon - bwl 33 February 2006) |
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow |
A group of gifted, computer-engineering students on the East Coast of America turn their recreational gaming into a successful international business. The examination of their diverse goals and backgrounds, their evolving relationships, passions and betrayals, make a totally engaging contemporary story, despite my innate prejudice against what I would have labelled time-wasting on devices, I accepted that the references to the multitude of games created, was actually essential to the resolution of the relationship between the two main characters.
(Margaret Teh - bwl 109 Summer 2023) |
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow |
To Sam and Sadie all the world's a literary video game. It's how they met as children and how as adults they lead their lives playing, inventing and creating new ones. For me a completely alien world yet I was drawn into their strange and complicated lives in which their friendship is the one constant sustaining them. It's weird but wonderful!
(Jenny Baker - bwl 110 Autumn 2022) |
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Young Jane Young |
Needing a lightish read, I picked up this new Gabrielle Zevin, and raced through it, thinking that some of it may also have been memoir but enjoying her writing as usual. Her observations on the choices and experiences available to young women whoever and wherever they may be, were not very optimistic. The book didn't have quite the same depth of subject, character and relationship development as Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow!
(Margaret Teh - bwl 115 Winter 2025) |
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