The Weekend with Tina Fey

Katie Carter

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7 April 2014

Bossy Pants

Tina Fey

275 Pages

Little, Brown and Company

$15.99

Bossypants Review: The Weekend with Tina Fey

            Tina Fey has a way with words through out Bossypants. Bossypants written for just about anyone. At the beginning of the book, she addresses woman, parents with achievement-orientated kids and people who hate her. The book is full of eloquent humor and grace. Tina Fey takes you through her life and how she arrived to where she is now. She writes about topics people are scared to write about. For instance, she discusses going to a Korean manicure salon and remembrances of being very very skinny or a little bit fat. Fey lets you into her life and shows you life lessons from being a small child to a grown adult. I felt as if I had just spent the weekend with Fey and had learned about the majority of her life by the end. 

            After finishing Bossypants, I realized there is so very much to learn about other people. I only knew Fey from 30 Rock or Saturday Night Live. She has had much more of an impact on the world than just these. I would recommend BossyPants for anyone who has enjoyed Tina Fey's comedy in the past and who would like to learn more about her life and her successes. Fey is an interesting woman with a lot to say. She keeps quiet on the media, but it is all let out in this book. This is a must read for anyone woman or group of women looking to dominate the alpha male society. Fey has an incredible outlook on life and how to achieve the most in life. 

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Who Wears the Bossypants Now?

Title: "Bossypants"
Author: Tina Fey
Length: 275 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Price: $15.99


"Who Wears the Bossypants Now?"
By: Erin Nelson


     10-year-old Tina Fey entered womanhood and was confused about what was happening to her. She ignored what was happening to her because she was expecting a blue liquid to emerge just like it did on the commercials. Fey was not well educated in what would really happen to her body when she entered womanhood until revealing to her mother what was happening to her. According to Fey, entering womanhood was not the most pleasant moment of her life. The way she handled the situation and ignored it like nothing was happening to her began a small insight into her reactions to situations and her very laid back and care free attitude and spirit.

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     Fey is a successful comedian because she went to improv and acting classes for many years before getting on the big screen, which was new to me. She started out acting in small improv shows to tour around the country until she received her job as an Saturday Night Live writer, something else that I also found as new information. After moving onto the show on television, Fey began to write her own movie and television show - Mean Girls and 30 Rock - which led to receiving numerous awards. As a whole, Fey has currently received eight Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and four Writer's Guild of America Awards.

     I think Fey tries to convey that a woman can do anything she wants to do in the work field. In her funny sense of humor, she tries to show that a woman is able to rise to the top in the work field and not have a man tell her it is impossible. She teaches that hard work may take a while, but it all pays off and is worth it in the end to achieve the dream job you desire.

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     In my opinion, I enjoyed the way Fey told her story and showed the importance of hard work for a woman. Her comedic tone throughout the book helped ease the seriousness of the "rising to the top" image and determination. One aspect I didn't like was how it may have come across that she looked at life as more of a joke and easy going, instead of looking like she was always head on to get where she wanted to be.

     I really enjoyed reading this book and seeing how she got to where she is now. After reading the book and interpreting what I thought she tried to convey, I would recommend this book for all women to read, especially young women. However, I would not recommend men read this book because I don't think they would personally understand or like the humor that is tied in with personal aspects of women.

She Doesn't Care If You Like It!

Bossypants

Tina Fey

250 pages

Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Company

$8.99
Post by: Randi Gill 

The best scene in Bossypants is when Tina Fey describes an encounter between Jimmy Fallon and Amy Poehler. Fallon makes a joke about not liking a joke Poehler was making and she whips around and states matter-of-factly “I don’t…care if you like it” and continued with her joke. This scene sets the tone for the entire book. Fey states her opinions in the book and does not care if the readers like them or hate them. The books describes her way of living and does not care how others feel about her opinions, jokes, choices or television show.

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            Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania in 1970. Once she graduated college, she moved to Chicago and worked with Second City. After spending a few years there, she began working for Saturday Night Live writing sketches and eventually became the first female head writer at SNL. Tina Fey is not only known for her parts on SNL, particularly for her Sarah Palin impressions, she is also know for the movie Mean Girls and her television show 30 Rock (Biography.com).

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Bossypants is a hilarious memoir with life advice in every chapter. I found myself laughing out loud multiple times.  On your next vacation take this book with you, put your feet up, relax and devour this book! In my opinion, only women with a sense of humor would love this book. So ladies please do not give this to the co-worker who never cracks a smile! It contains practical work advice about how to manage men in the office, your boss and sticky situations. It also shows us the real Tina Fey, which is just a regular woman who is a mother with a hectic job, a wife and a friend. Yes, the book skips around a bit but that just shows us part of her personality, just being a little random and not caring if we like it.

            In conclusion, if you have a sense of humor and do not mind a book that speaks its mind pick up this book! Yes, it skips around a lot. Yes, it is a book that can sometimes be a little “off” but that is just Tina Fey. By the end of the book you will understand her better and feel like you made a new friend.