Bossypants by Tina FeyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Let me start off by saying, I miss 30 Rock, and hearing Tina Fey’s voice for five hours was entertaining to say the least. Bossypants can be best described a quickly glossed over autobiography. She covers her entire life, but not with much detail. I was hoping for more about being a female boss and the challenges, and I thought for sure if anyone could make it funny, she could. She very quickly glossed over this, but I suppose the title still fits because it sounds like she’s a Bossypants in all arenas, not just professionally. Tina Fey presents herself as a pretty average person; she had two loving parents and a brother 8 years older. She went to college and got a crappy first job at the YMCA. She touches on sexism in the comedy world which she entered a little after college at as a night hobby and then as a professional Improv artist with Second City. She and Amy Poehler traveled around with three male colleagues and put on shows in there multi-state radius. She worked her way to Saturday Night Live and then to creating 30 Rock. It’s striking that she only felt truly embraced and welcomed when she was impersonating Sarah Palin in 2008. A sad testament to talent that goes under-appreciated.
Tina reading her own Audiobook was a true treat, although I have no idea when she had time for this! She works over 70 hours a week, and now has two young children. She talks about the strain of working motherhood and the decision to add to their family. I especially enjoyed her discussing the guilt surrounding breastfeeding and her humorous yet extremely touching poem to her daughter. [The poem can be found online.] When Fey writes her next book, I’ll be first in line.
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