Bossypants in Reading with Style

Jun 12, 2017 Chinook rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobook, parenthood, feminism

This is my favourite of the female comedian books thus far - which makes sense because I think I'm most familiar with Tina Fey and I've always enjoyed what she does. I thought her comments on motherhood were both funny and spot on. Plus now I want to go back and rewatch 30 Rock with the husband. ...more

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Dec 24, 2012 Tanya Patrice rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks

I listened to the audiobook narrated by Tina Fey and she did a fantastic job as a narrator - I don't think anyone could have done it better, since she is so ever present in people's minds. Listening to the audiobook is definitely the way to go with this.

BUT I really didn't enjoy the book that much. It was just okay, and honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that I'm hard wired to finish a book I've started, I would have ditched it. I think the same thing as I did for the book by another SNL humori ...more

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Mar 26, 2012 Megan added it · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction

Amusing, and I liked how she addressed sexism in little and big ways, but there just wasn't a lot of content or meatiness to it. Plus, I get bored with self-deprecating humor pretty easily. (I preferred Mindy Kaling's book. There. I said it.) ...more

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

Shelves: source-library, nonfiction, nf-bios-memoir, 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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Nov 11, 2012 Stacie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: autobiography, 2012, non-fiction

"Bossypants" written by Tina Fey was so funny and a quick read. It was interesting to hear how 30 Rock came about and the experience behind playing Sarah Palin on SNL. ...more

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