Really enjoyed reading this book. Bonus points for the first half of it being set in Harvard Square. Nice to read a story about friendship that does not follow the typical friends-to-lovers trope. Overall just a really fun, feel-good read. My fav part was the part about Pioneers I think.
Overall takeaways:
- True friendship is a beautiful thing (nothing new here). I feel so lucky to have had true friendship in many forms throughout my life. My heard swells with love for my friends.
- We are never too old for play–of any form. Don’t let the horrors of the world stop you from playing.
- Definitely other things but I read this a while ago and don’t really want to reflect on it any more.
Some passages I like:
This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of trasport only worked with those one had known a significant time.
The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everyting is still possible.
What was amazing to Sam–and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie–was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location. As Sadie would put it in an interview with Wired, “The game character, like the self, is contextual.”
“…It’s more than romantic. It’s better than romance. It’s friendship.”
“I forget how young you are. You’re still at the age where you mistake your friends and your colleagues for family.”
It was almost like looking at herself , but through a magical mirror that allowed her to see her whole life.
In certain seasons, we may be nourished by the idea of the carrot more than the carrot itself.