Bossypants

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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 bossyIncludes Special, Never Before Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum CakeAn unabridged recording on 5 CDs 5.5 Hours. Best Read [ Bossypants ] author [ Tina Fey ] – kino-fada.fr Tina Fey s Bossypants was a disappointment I don t know that expecting much from a comedy writer s cash in big font with pictures essay memoirthingis fair, but I ve been a Tina Fey fan since 30 Rock began, ready to trust her literary aspirations, and even to me this book barely scratches onto the two star plateau.What did I expect Well, it s probably easier to explain what I didn t expect I wasn t counting on a sour, muddled, defensive screed against anyone who pissed off the author in Tina Fey s Bossypants was a disappointment I don t know that expecting much from a comedy writer s cash in big font with pictures essay memoirthingis fa...The best audiobook I ve listened to in a long, long time And that s saying something I ended up picking this up because when I sent up a signal flare on Twitter, it was the most recommended book by far Now I see why 1 The narration was exceptionally good I like autobiography being read by the author, but...I m listening to the audiobook and it s even better than the print.I honestly cannot remember the last time I laughed this hard reading anything only a Jonathan Tropper novel or a Dave Sedaris collection comes close I finished the other night with wet cheeks from the tears that d escaped my eyes The bed had been shaking I was laughing so hard So what s to love about Bossypants, besides everything For starters, how Tina just tells it and by it, I mean everything from working at SNL to impersonating Sarah Palin like it is She s got a fierce feminist I honestly cannot remember the last time I laughed this hard reading anything only a Jonathan Tropper novel or a Dave Sedaris collection comes close I finished the other night with wet cheeks from the tears that d escaped my eyes The bed had been shaking I was laughing so hard So what s to love about Bossypants, besides everything For starters, how Tina just tells it and by it, I mean everything from working at SNL to impersonating Sarah Palin like it is She s got a fierce feminist streak in her, but it s a feminism that exhibits itself in her trade...Sure, you could read Bossypants Provided you like all that self deprecating I m Tina Fey and I am enormously successful and I am thankful for that, but at the same time I still struggle with being a working woman with a real life, because it is so weird that I am a media icon when I still really think of myself as an unpopular high school theater dweeb, and isn t life weird, like when I was seen as a major influence during the last election because I kind of look like Sarah Palin stuff.Perso Sure, you could read Bossypants Provided you like all that self deprecating I m Tina Fey and I am enormously successful and I am thankful for that, but at the same time I still struggle with being a working woman with a real life, because it is so weird that I am a media icon when I still really think of myself as an unpopular high school theater dweeb, and isn t life weird, like when I was seen as a major influence during the last election because I kind of look like Sarah Palin stuff.Personally, Tina Fey is a little too successful for me I don t like it I want to read about the life of someone else in order to feel better about my own life, not to make me wish I lived in New York and did something cool for a living.I d rather read the autobiography of L...First, I must preface this two star rating by saying that since Goodreads does not allow zero stars I m forced to reserve my one star ratings only for very special pieces of shit Secondly, at no time while reading this did my blood alcohol content drop below twice the legal limit and even that hardly made this book tolerable I wasn t expecting much, obviously, but this book fails to live up to even the exceeding low standards of airport bookstores I liked Tina Fey before I read this book First, I must preface this two star rating by saying that since Goodreads does not allow zero stars I m forced to reserve my one star ratings only for very special pieces of shit Secondly, at no time while reading this did my blood alcohol content drop below twice the legal limit and even that hardly made this book tolerable I wasn t expecting much, obviously, but this book fails to live up to even the exceeding low standards of airport bookstores I liked Tina Fey before I read this book I like her far less now Here s some helpful h...Thoroughly enjoyed listening to thisThree and a half stars I think Tina Fey is awesome I think this is a slight but solid book Her authorial voice sounds exactly like her speaking in my head It s sometimes funny, sometimes self deprecating, sometimes empowering It spendstime than one might expect on some things, and no time on others I think she tried to skirt a line between memoir and humor essayist that is a difficult one to skirt I think it s an easier thing to do if you re David Sedaris and nobody has specific sto Three and a half stars I think Tina Fey is awesome I think this is a slight but solid book Her authorial voice sounds exactly like her speaking in my head It s sometimes funny, sometimes self deprecating, sometimes empowering It spendstime than one might expect ...Big Tina Fey fan here I have always enjoyed her work on SNL and have seen almost every episode of 30 Rock I have seen some of her movies, not all She is very definitely funny and smart Her Sarah Palin kills So what might one expect from a Tina Fey book One of two things, either a straight ahead comedic book with plenty of anecdotes, jokes and maybe a bit of behind the scenes info, or a personal memoir, with detail about her background I felt that Fey committed to neither fully and wound u Big Tina Fey fan here I have always enjoyed her work on SNL and have seen almost every episode of 30 Rock I have seen some of her movies, not all She is very definitely funny and smart Her Sarah Palin kills So what might one expect from a Tina Fey book One of two things, either a straight ahead comedic book with plenty of anecdotes, jokes and maybe a bit of behind the scenes info, or a personal memoir, with detail about her background I felt that Fey committed to neither fully and wound up producing half of both in a book that was inconsistent and at times very thin After reading this book, do you feel that you know Fey any better than you did before Sure there are some details about this and that, and she does address internal conflicts around work vs family, but my take is that this was all very surfacy material and did not really get much, if at all, below the skin As a memoir I...Tina Fey American Icon Some people say, Never let them see you cry I say, if you re so mad you could just cry, then cry It terrifies everyone. I really appreciated how this novel had a good mix of heartwarming anecdotes, comedic happenstances and career musings While I am not as familiar with her SNL and early career, this book was fun and easy to listen to.As with many a memoir, we start with her childhood love of comedy and processed to her current day adventures or perhapsacc Tina Fey American Icon Some people say, Never let them see you cry I say, if you re so mad you could just cry, then...

Bossypants
  • English
  • 01 October 2018
  • Kindle Edition
  • 283 pages
  • Tina Fey
  • Bossypants