Dinara Tengri

Title: You're never weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir Author: Felicia Day Published in: 2015 Publisher: Touchstone Language: English How I got this book: at the library "... I don't think it's unreasonable to make a stab-in-the-dark assumption: You're either extremely excited to read this book (inner dialogue: OMG, FELICIA DAY WROTE A BOOK!"). Or extremely confused (inner dialogue: Who is this chick again?") " So writes Felicia Day in the introduction to her memoir. Which of the two categories do I fit in? Well, none of the above, actually. I'm somewhere in between, and when I read that Felicia  wrote a book, my inner dialogue went something like this: "Oh, that girl from Supernatural who I also saw on Youtube once wrote a book! I like the title, it's very appealing to a geek like myself. Wonder what this book is really about." Now I've read it. What did I think about it? Let's break it down, shall we...

 Welcome to the first Thursday Quotables here at this page! It's a weekly feature hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies , and it's all about sharing your favourite quote or passage from a book you're currently Reading. It can be funny, a real tearjerker or just something beautifully written. You decide. Right now, I'm reading Felicia Day's memoirs, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost). Before she became an actress and a geek icon, Day double-majored in mathematics and violin. She has always been very good at math, but when she took Group Theory in the summer semester, she hit a speed bump. She failed the exam the first time, and her professor told her to try and get a "B". A "B"? That was not an option. Determined to get an A, Day spent her whole summer studying Group Theory. And she crushed it with 100 out of 100.   She wanted to be the best, to get the perfect score, and that's something most of us can relate to. To not s...