Bossypants in Reading with Style

Jul 27, 2015 Bucket rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: bio-auto-bio, reviewed, humor, women, hella-sweet-book-club-read

This was a very quick and easy read that had me chuckling every five or ten pages or so. It is overall very light reading. Feels honest in a self-deprecating and occasionally silly way, and provides more fun than food for thought. I did appreciate Fey's thoughts on being a working woman and mother, and was most interested in her thoughts (and mixed feelings) about playing Sarah Palin on SNL. If you need airplane reading or a book to take to the beach, or just generally want something fun that yo ...more

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Feb 09, 2014 Emily rated it really liked it

Tina's memoir is packed with hilarious insights into her character, musings about the comedy business and practical advice. I really respect her as a person and as a performer/creator. One note about the ebook: footnotes are all grouped at the end of the book instead of the bottom of the page. ...more

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Apr 18, 2013 Athira (Reading on a Rainy Day) rated it liked it

Shelves: nf-bios-memoir, nonfiction, source-library, format-audiobook, 2013

I read Bossypants four months ago. For some reason, I have been postponing my review since I first wrote it couple of months back. Not that I am unsure of it or it was controversial or I had any such juicy reactions. Bossypants simply didn't fascinate me. This is the not the first time I was listening to the book though. I had first played the audiobook in my car two years ago when I went on a short drive - I did get to the halfway point before I had to return the book. I remember enjoying the b I read Bossypants four months ago. For some reason, I have been postponing my review since I first wrote it couple of months back. Not that I am unsure of it or it was controversial or I had any such juicy reactions. Bossypants simply didn't fascinate me. This is the not the first time I was listening to the book though. I had first played the audiobook in my car two years ago when I went on a short drive - I did get to the halfway point before I had to return the book. I remember enjoying the book tremendously then - so it surprises me that I didn't like it too much this time around.

I really like Tina Fey. The husband and I watched Admission recently, and while the movie isn't award-winning material, it certainly was a nice entertaining way to spend a late evening. She is certainly funny - hilariously. In Bossypants, she narrates so many funny anecdotes that I ended up feeling that I had been living a very unfunny life. She talks about pretty much everything in this book - a lot of it on the sets of Saturday Night Live. But there's also a good chunk of glimpses into her private life - about female topics, college romances and teenage obsessions.

Despite how funny she was, I found most of her humor very self-deprecating. Depending on my mood, I find that brand of humor either very entertaining or very depressing. If you look through all my reviews of books boasting of self-deprecating humor, you'll find that I either really loved it or really hated it. But one thing is usually consistent - if I come across a lot of it at one go, I rarely ever like it. The other issue with me was that I have never really watched much of Tina Fey. Other than seeing occasional clips here and there, for the most part, she is just a name I know but whose work I am not too familiar with. Maybe because of that, I could never get fully interested in Fey's anecdotes. It felt like listening to someone I don't know talk about her day. If you are a Tina Fey fan, you'll probably enjoy it more than I did, that is if you haven't already read it yet. ...more

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Jul 31, 2011 Melanie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Funny, though I do think that parts of it dragged. I really loved the chapters that went behind-the-scenes at SNL and 30 Rock; not so much some of the childhood/family chapters.

Also, I thought it was kind of adorable that her entire last chapter was basically her agonizing over whether or not to have a 2nd kid and agonizing over the fact that if she did, she'd have to delay that season's production of 30 Rock, considering the fact that Tina DID end up having a 2nd kid (and 30 Rock's premiere wa ...more

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