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Jun 01, 2018 Heather - hturningpages rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: loved-it, awesome-audiobooks, non-fiction

Gah this was so fun! Tina Fey you make me laugh and look like a crazy person when driving to work while listening to you talk about basically anything :D

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May 24, 2013 Nadine in NY Jones rated it liked it

Shelves: audio, memoir-and-autobiographical-essays, feminist-stuff, essays, humor

This may be one of those rare books that is actually BETTER in the audio version.

I know who Tina Fey is, I can recognize her face or voice, and I like her, but I've never been a loyal viewer of SNL or 30 Rock or anything else she was involved in, so I went into this with no preconceived notions.

In the end, this one was a real mixed bag. There were chapters that had me laughing uproariously, others when my mind would wander, still others that made me think "that's a great point! I need to remembe ...more

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Jul 13, 2013 Una rated it really liked it

I loved listening to this book. Tina Fey is funny, smart and witty. It was exactly what I expected, summer read, light and entertaining!

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Nov 14, 2014 Sarah rated it liked it

Shelves: american-nonfiction

Though I definitely laughed out loud at several points in time, I wanted this to be better. I wanted it to be more feminist, in that feminists should probably identify with the struggles of other people who may or may not be women but who struggle because they are somehow left out of the dominant. But there were several times where that sense of intersectionality was missing. However, the book does actually have several pieces of good career advice for women in any field, and that I will definit ...more

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Nov 14, 2011 Maggie rated it liked it

Shelves: memoir, hilarious, non-fiction, read-2011, humor

I really wanted to LOVE this. I did like it, but didnt love it. And even laughed out loud at it a few times...but I wanted more. I kind of felt like it jumped all over the place and just scratched the surface on everything. So you really didn't learn much about Tina... easy read, read the entire thing on a cross country plane trip, one way. So about 4 hours... ...more

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Feb 20, 2013 Courtney rated it liked it · review of another edition

This was good. I think I expected better, though I'm not sure why. I think sometimes a comedian's humor doesn't come across the same way in books - the jokes seem to fall a bit flatter. That said, I adore Tina Fey and I did enjoy reading the book. ...more

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