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I found Zevin completely engaging! Curiously, Zevin says that she prefers reading a book without knowing much about the author. If you would like to hear Gabrielle Zevin talk about the book then I highly recommend a recorded event at RJ Booksellers.

It’s on Kidsview and it’s an entertaining and quick summary. You can check out a 3 minute youTube on the history of of video games. Check out this Berkeley blog, Changing the Curve, Women in Computing which shares a lot of data on the trends of women in computing from education through careers. There are a lot of resources online about women in technology.

I recommend reading the book before the guide. Note that these book club questions, like all of the guides, may contain spoilers. However, I think many folks in addition to me would like to share this novel with others and might like to hear some of the connections others made. I actually hesitated writing book club questions, as it felt a little too intrusive upon these characters’ lives. Perhaps because Zevin created characters that I was rooting for, that were so true to who they were, that were loving and caring and unaware of their own shortcomings and hyperaware of others’ supposed slights. Perhaps because I know multiple people who have ongoing pain and don’t consider their situation a disability. Perhaps because I know Cambridge and the streets they walked. Perhaps because I was a female software developer. Wow! Wow! I closed the book and felt sad to leave the characters and no longer be with them in conversation and joy and sadness and love.

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