Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir

Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir by Wil Wheaton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I visited Wil Wheaton's blog a couple of times in the early 2000's, and also recall seeing the Use.net vitriol towards his Star Trek character Wesley.
I also chuckled when I saw "Evil Wil" in The Big Bang Theory, but that was about all I knew about him.
Then I heard that he was really good at narrating audiobooks and confirmed it with John Scalzi's delightful The Kaiju Preservation Society

(view spoiler)[In Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir he acknowledges stuff that did not age well, explores his decision to quit Star Trek, being a nerd in the early days of the Internet, struggling with mental health and trauma, as well as rediscovering his love of writing and his ability to do it. (hide spoiler)]

Other reviews claim it is rather repetitive; this work is based on a collection of blog posts over the years, so yeah, he will revisit several themes.

My only complaint about the audiobook is that some of the Epilogue chapters are chopped in a way that interrupts a theme halfway through, to end it 5 minutes into the next chapter and begin another one.

Highly recommended.


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Horizontal Vertigo: A city called Mexico

Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A great mosaic of experiences in Mexico City - "Chilangopolis"
Places I'm very familiar with, others I've never visited -Mexico City is huge.
Great descriptions of idiosyncrasies that I'd never realized were exclusive to Mexicans in general, and Chilangos in particular.

The chapters devoted to the earthquakes of 1985 and 2017 are particularly harrowing.

Great read.

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