Making It So
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart!
At just over 450 pages, I thought this was going to be a slog to get through, but Stewart’s writing style is snappy enough that even his descriptions of his childhood home’s lack of a toilet was interesting enough that I was able to finish this in just a couple reading sessions. Surprising to me however was both how open he was about his marital mistakes and how little he talked about his time making Trek and the various movies that he did afterwards like the X-Men franchise or the smaller roles he had like “Green Room”. He didn’t even start talking about Trek until the halfway point in the book! I’m sure he could write another two or three books about those experiences, but in the sum of his life, Trek is just one small part of what he’s proud of and that his stage acting is where his pride really lies.
This is a good book and if you’re as into Trek as much as I am, it’s a great look into the mind of the of the finest actors on the series. I think he’s the first of the TNG cast to write a book about his life, but hopefully he won’t be the last.
