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.

            

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.