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I finished reading during lunch. Late lunch at 4 pm, after I blogged on my break. (Bad me.)
A book based entirely on its cover A book published this year: You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day, foreword by Joss Whedon. Touchstone, 2015.
I'm not a fan of Felicia Day -- I've seen Doctor Horrible and a Vaginal Fantasy Book Club video (The Lions of Al-Rassan) and nothing else that she's been in -- but I'm not not a fan, either. I don't know enough yet to be a fan. I needed a memoir, and I want most of my books to be by female authors, and I like her in the two things I've seen, so that's enough.
I've read memoirs where the author seemed too desperate to be funny or intellectual or whatever, and it just rubbed me the wrong way, so I stopped reading. I could not be more different from Felicia, but I related to her anyway. I even photocopied several pages for personal use: things about her breakdown and how she got out of it, journaling for therapy, her work ethic, that sort of thing. So I won't forget. Other than that, I can't really say why I liked it, I just liked it.
Here's my progress report, now that we're 75% of the way through the year:
Click to see the full size image. IP = in progress, which you probably figured out on your own.
A book based entirely on its cover A book published this year: You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day, foreword by Joss Whedon. Touchstone, 2015.
I'm not a fan of Felicia Day -- I've seen Doctor Horrible and a Vaginal Fantasy Book Club video (The Lions of Al-Rassan) and nothing else that she's been in -- but I'm not not a fan, either. I don't know enough yet to be a fan. I needed a memoir, and I want most of my books to be by female authors, and I like her in the two things I've seen, so that's enough.
I've read memoirs where the author seemed too desperate to be funny or intellectual or whatever, and it just rubbed me the wrong way, so I stopped reading. I could not be more different from Felicia, but I related to her anyway. I even photocopied several pages for personal use: things about her breakdown and how she got out of it, journaling for therapy, her work ethic, that sort of thing. So I won't forget. Other than that, I can't really say why I liked it, I just liked it.
Here's my progress report, now that we're 75% of the way through the year:
Click to see the full size image. IP = in progress, which you probably figured out on your own.