Currently I'm reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. It's a heartfelt book about game development and follows the lives of three young people who start a game company around the turn of the millennium. I'm about 3/4 of the way through at this point and the flow of the story and the character development are extremely good.

That was an excellent story, Piero, and I loved all the game references!

That was an excellent story, Piero, and I loved all the game references!

It really is great isn't it. I loved the references too but I have been wondering about the timing of some of the gaming world events in the story. For example, there's a reference to many people having problems downloading a game - did people commonly download games in the early 2000s? Maybe it was different in the US to the UK where I was at that time.

I didn't download games at that time, but then I was a newbie to computers and games and also a Mac user, so what did I know? I suspect the author might have stretched things a bit for the sake of the story.

That was an excellent story, Piero, and I loved all the game references!

It really is great isn't it. I loved the references too but I have been wondering about the timing of some of the gaming world events in the story. For example, there's a reference to many people having problems downloading a game  - did people commonly download games in the early 2000s? Maybe it was different in the US to the UK where I was at that time.

Diablo II, from Blizzard, had to have certain files downloaded, even if you purchased the game box with CD-ROM.  It was released in 2001.

I finished and loved Dennis Taylor's second Bobiverse novel, For We Are Many, and am looking forward to the third one.

Harry Dresden has been one of my favorite fantasy characters since I followed the short-run Dresden Files tv show in 2007. All of the previous 19 books in the series have been great reads, and I'm now having great difficulty putting down Twelve Months, as the circles under my eyes can attest.