Book info

• Title Bossypants
• Author Tina Fey
• Year 2011
• Genre Memoir

Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her. Before 30 Rock, Mean Girls and '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 half-hearted 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.

Thoughts

Love Tina Fey and this is a great memoir, relatively short and rather than the boring chronological timeline of a family, it’s structured like thoughts and anecdotes that occur to the author as she’s going along. It’s funny, obviously, but also humble and honest - although there are clear boundaries that won’t be crossed, only so much that will be shared. I think I enjoyed the stuff about 30 Rock the most, how that came into being, how it tied in with SNL and how it continued. A good fun read.

Rating: 4 / 5