Good Reads Thursday- BossyPants, Tina Fey

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This week I am sharing Tina Fey’s autobiography, Bossypants.

Here is the summary from GoodReads:

Before Liz Lemon, before “Weekend Update,” before “Sarah Palin,” Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.

She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey’s story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon—from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.

Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we’ve all suspected: you’re no one until someone calls you bossy.

I honestly can’t recall if I’ve read an autobiography before, with my complete lack of reading in college and high school, the answer is most likely not. I decided to read Bossypants because in general I am a fan of Tina Fey. I enjoy her movies, I enjoy her on SNL and I love 30 Rock. I read a couple of excerpts that seemed funny enough so I thought I would take a break from the Dystopian world and give this a try.

Overall I would give the book 3 stars. I enjoyed that I could read a chapter at a time and didn’t necessarily have to spend hours to learn something about her, but at the same time there were chapters I could’ve done without. If you like Tina Fey you most likely already know she is a very liberal feminist and that tone is very prevalent through the read, which I was ok with. I wasn’t reading because I needed a liberal feminist icon, I was reading it to learn a little more about Tina Fey and understand how the wheels spin behind some of her most famous projects. And for that, it was a successful read.

I will just leave it at that, the lack of a higher rating comes from the fact that I felt like there was way too much emphasis on some items, which I didn’t really care about and honestly wanted to skip right over… around the middle of at least two chapters I just moved on because I was not getting anything out of it.

It is funny, there are definitely some laugh-out-loud moments- it’s Tina Fey after all. I can hear Tina Fey talking while I read and really enjoyed hearing the behind the scene info on SNL and 30 Rock and I found it fascinating to see little pieces of her Faith intertwined in all of it. She also gives a glimpse into her life as a mommy, which is also really great.

If you know someone that owns the book, it’s worth a borrow- and if you are a die-hard Tina Fey fan it would be a great read. I don’t know that I would’ve bought it if I had to do it over again because it’s not something I will ever need to read again.

And look what showed up on my doorstep this week!

Can’t wait to dive it! 🙂

**I’ve also decided to use the same linky each time I post so that you won’t have to search back through these posts to find a book, every week we can just add more books to the list, or give your own review on a book that someone else may have already linked 🙂

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Comments

Kelly says

04.05.2012 at 2:07 pm

Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for getting back to me on this before you wrote the post. I appreciate you input. You mentioned “her Faith”, is she an Orthodox Christian? I mean she is Greek, so I know it is in her family, but I wonder if she recognizes it as her family background?