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Welcome to the w b Z Book
Club. I'm Jordan Rich making it so

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as a memoir by the one and
only Patrick Stewart, most famous these days

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for portraying Jean Luke Picard on Star
Trek The Next Generation. But long before

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he sailed through the Stars, Patrick
Stewart was one of Britain's finest stage actors.

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He hailed from a working class background
in Yorkshire and found an escape from

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an unhappy young life in books.
As he says, the stage would prove

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to be a safe space, a
refuge from real life in which I could

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inhabit another person living in another place
and time. Well he did just that

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and more, working hard through two
decades where he ultimately became a member of

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the Royal Shakespeare Company. It's a
charming memoir. Stuart is gracious and self

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deprecating and gives props to many of
his colleagues and fellow actors, including Helen

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Mirren, Malcolm McDowell, Vivian Lee
of Gone with the Win fame, and

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of course for Star Trek fans,
there are a lot of funny behind the

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scenes stories. As some critics have
said, you do not have to be

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a Treky to enjoy it, Making
it so, A memoir by Patrick Stewart.

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