Bossypants Book Review By Alex Thomas

Bossypants Book Review

Bossypants

Tina Fey

224 Pages

Little, Brown and Company

Cost: $4.99

Bossypants Review

By Alex Thomas

Tina Fey begins her chapter, "I Don't Care If You Like It" with a story about her friend Amy Pohler who was looked down upon at first by her raunchy and "unladylike" jokes but did not care what people thought of her. She mentions after this that if people do not like what you're doing you need to stop and think, "Is this person between me and what I want to do?" I think this reveals that Fey is a very empowered woman that has not let anyone stand in the way of her success. This is a prevalent topic throughout the book with her "feminist" undertones she proves to be a strong, successful woman who worked hard to get where she is.

Tina Fey started from humble beginnings, much to my disbelief. You assume stars are born famous, but in Fey's life, this was not the case. She seems from her book that as a child she always had a keen since of humor throughout her adolescent years on into her high school years. Fey had a fairly normal childhood and routinely worked a job at a local theatre after getting into high school. She worked there throughout high school and after graduating went to the University of Virginia. She worked her way through school and when she graduated attended a school called Second City. This is where she made her start and eventually landed herself on SNL.

The topic of the book is obviously the story of how Tina Fey came to be and her road to success. She gives great detail from every point of her life from her puberty years on into her college years where she talks about odd end jobs she worked. You feel like you know Fey by the end of the book because of how much detail she provides in her biography.





Fey covered her life very thoroughly and provided comic relief throughout the entire course of the book. When she would bring up serious topics, it was often deferred by one of her witty jokes. The book is a bit choppy though its like one moment she is talking about her childhood then the next second she is talking about her jobs in college. Although it does move around a lot, you really get to know a side of the star that you wouldn't normally see. This book enables the public to see a celebrity as a real person, not just as an actor. Woman that are in their mid 20's looking for jobs or any kind of reassurance in the professional world, should read this book.