Bossypants
by Tina Fey
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73%
Critic Reviews: 19
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Synopsis
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... more
About Tina Fey
Published: January 3, 2012 by Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Humor & Entertainment. Non-fiction. 304 pages
- All Critics: 19
- Positive: 14
- Negative: 5
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The New York Times | 3 Apr 2011
Ms. Fey, like Ms. Ephron, is at her most hilariously self-deprecating when it comes to her attractiveness and vanity.
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The Washington Post | 11 Apr 2011
The life coach in me wants her to knock it off and own her awesomeness. The cynic in me suspects that she does, but she’s too shrewd to let on.
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Los Angeles Times | 4 Apr 2011
Fey has a great sense of pace and timing . . .and a love of language that echoes early Nora Ephron and, before that, the marvelous Jean Kerr.
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USA Today
It's not every day you read something that makes you laugh out loud every other page.
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Kirkus Reviews | 23 Jul 2011
Highly recommended, even for those who have already read the excerpts in the New Yorker.
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The Globe and Mail | 8 Apr 2011
It’s Fey’s biting wit. . . that carries her almost effortlessly. . .from drama at the University of Virginia to the Second City stage in Chicago to nailing an interview with Lorne Michaels and working her way up the SNL ladder.
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Time Magazine | 4 Apr 2011
. . .it's also loaded with personality, insights into power and the kind of humor that can cause beverages to travel through the reader's nasal passages unplanned.
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National Post | 8 Apr 2011
The result is a joke-driven memoir that resonates like a punchline without the setup.
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NPR | 5 Apr 2011
Fey's great talent as a writer. . . is that she is fearless but not fearsome, and her charming, no-holds-barred attitude is on full display here.
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Reviews St. Louis | 30 May 2011
If there was ever a book for a woman who wants to laugh and relate to, it is this book.
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Oregon Live | 23 Apr 2011
. . .one yearns to know more about how she developed the drive and toughness to become the first female head writer at "Saturday Night Live". . .
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Slate | 30 Mar 2011
. . .it offers a valuable insight into navigating gender politics.
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San Diego Entertainer | 25 Jan 2011
. . .a fantastic weekend read that entertains while also letting the reader into her world.
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The Washington Times | 12 Aug 2011
. . .filled with photocopies of humorous sketches, pointed advice from Lorne Michaels and fun photos. . .is a playful inside-television journey . . .
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Glamour | 8 Apr 2011
. . .some of the book's most poignant and funny moments come from Fey’s growing up, outside of Philadelphia, as a girl who was not traditionally good looking.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 30 Mar 2012
. . .I tired of her constant put-downs about her looks ("my thick virgin eyebrows") while praising the miracle of Photoshop. . .
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Examiner | 6 Mar 2012
. . .overall I thought Fey’s freshman effort as a book author was worthwhile.
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