272 pages
Published Aug. 11, 2015 by Gallery Books.
Felicia Day is funny, and real, and weird. I think we could be real-life friends. I really enjoyed the audio with her narration. If you like gaming, comics, sci fi, strange families, or just laughing when people do cringey things (I am quite the cringey person myself), check it out.
This is an autobiographical story of how Felicia Day got where she is today. So if you enjoyed The Guild or Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog or just like Geek & Sundry, you might want to pick it up. I also liked her on the Table Top episodes she was on, that's why I picked up the book. Her personality shines through the pages. It reminds me a little bit of Wil Wheaton's [b: Just a Geek|18329364|Just Your Average Geek|Kristina Springer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1440450264s/18329364.jpg|25873051] but that may be due to the fact that those two kind of go together in my head - probably because TableTop and The Guild.
Felicia has an amusing, often self-deprecating writing style that makes for enjoyable, and diverting reading. There are quite a few anecdotes in the book that made me laugh outloud. One of my favorites was her account of meeting Lieutnant Uhura. Also I had no idea …
This is an autobiographical story of how Felicia Day got where she is today. So if you enjoyed The Guild or Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog or just like Geek & Sundry, you might want to pick it up. I also liked her on the Table Top episodes she was on, that's why I picked up the book. Her personality shines through the pages. It reminds me a little bit of Wil Wheaton's [b: Just a Geek|18329364|Just Your Average Geek|Kristina Springer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1440450264s/18329364.jpg|25873051] but that may be due to the fact that those two kind of go together in my head - probably because TableTop and The Guild.
Felicia has an amusing, often self-deprecating writing style that makes for enjoyable, and diverting reading. There are quite a few anecdotes in the book that made me laugh outloud. One of my favorites was her account of meeting Lieutnant Uhura. Also I had no idea she was a violinist, and had been acting long before she wrote The Guild. I could relate very well to the episode where she talks about her troubles when she first tried to get into writing her own material, and how The Guild began. If you've tried your hand at writing, that chapter may be very interesting. (But: this is not a book about witing advice.)
Towards the end she talks about #GamerGate and that's where the book becomes more serious. This major internet incident/upheaval/flame war (or whatever one wants to call this) is a prime example for what I think is the wrong way to have a discussion, and it seems to have traumatized quite a few of those involved. Internet: please get out of the ugly teen years. Grow up. After reading that particular chapter I find it quite brave that she spoke up again about this topic.
Felicia Day was a home schooled violin prodigy and a math major in college so of course she decided to become an actress. With parts few and far between she decided to write her own web series and that spawned an Internet empire.
I know her mostly from her traditional acting jobs on sci-fi/fantasy shows like Buffy, Eureka, and Supernatural. I haven't seen in web stuff. She glosses over the TV roles or mentions them in passing. I would have liked to hear more about that. The story of making her own path is interesting though.
Gruselig, wie viele Parallelen es gibt zwischen der Wahnsinnigen aus den Staaten und der Wahnsinnigen aus Lippe. Ich denke, beim nächsten The-Guild-Marathon werde ich manche Staffeln mit ganz anderen Augen sehen ...
Schönes Buch, flugs weggelesen, mehrfach laut gelacht, mehrfach sehr ergriffen gewesen. Empfehlung für alle Internetmenschen und She-Geeks.
Felica Day's writing has a particular quirky, personal style that draws you in. You want to be her friend.
My only quibble is the book does seem light on detail. There are quirky moments from her youth and some history of her, quirky moments from her pre-internet fame days, quirky moments from shooting The Guild, and some revealing moments regarding addiction and depression. However there is a sense she is holding things back, possibly from a desire to not expose parts of her life she feels are more private (for example her boyfriend is mentioned a couple of times, but never identified nor are we told anything about him or interactions with him.)
Regardless, I very much enjoyed the book, identified with her chapters on WoW addiction and depression, and after finishing it got the audiobook to hear it read in her own voice. Recommended.
