{"id":11285,"date":"2011-04-19T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=11285"},"modified":"2011-04-07T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T15:31:09","slug":"bossypants-by-tina-fey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/bossypants-by-tina-fey\/","title":{"rendered":"Bossypants by Tina Fey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Bossypants<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Tina Fey was released on Tuesday, April 5th, and I started and finished it on that very day.\u00a0 Enough said.<\/p>\n

Granted, I’m a big fan of Tina Fey and her critically-acclaimed show 30 Rock<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, and I’ve been anxiously awaiting this book.\u00a0\u00a0It’s part memoir, part humorous essay collection, and part how-to guide on being a woman in show business.\u00a0 And it’s hilarious.\u00a0 She talks about everything from the\u00a0more unpleasant jobs she had over the years\u00a0to finding acceptance in a summer theater group to what it was like to meet Sarah Palin after publicly (and frequently) making fun of her on Saturday Night Live<\/em>.\u00a0 There are one-liners and hilarious anecdote in such abundance that you’ll be embarrassed to read the book in public because you’ll be laughing so much.\u00a0 She also talks about some serious things, like being slashed in the face by a stranger when she was five years old (the source of the trademark scar on her cheek) and how hard it is to balance being a mother and a very busy woman in the workforce, but she still manages to keep it lighthearted.\u00a0 What I really enjoyed about the book was how clearly her comedic voice came through.\u00a0 This isn’t one of those books “written” by a celebrity (aka written by a ghostwriter with the celebrity’s name thrown into the byline); Fey’s sharp wit comes through in every sentence so that you can practically hear her reading it as though she were reciting lines she wrote on 30 Rock<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

I tried really hard to pick out a favorite\u00a0excerpt to share here, just to give you a taste of what the book is like.\u00a0 But every time I tried I just kept typing and typing\u00a0and pretty soon it was going to border on copyright infringement.\u00a0 So I’ll just tell you that\u00a0Bossypants<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is hilarious and if you like humorous memoirs or are a fan of\u00a030 Rock<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, then you should check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bossypants by Tina Fey was released on Tuesday, April 5th, and I started and finished it on that very day.\u00a0 Enough said. Granted, I’m a big fan of Tina Fey and her critically-acclaimed show 30 Rock, and I’ve been anxiously awaiting this book.\u00a0\u00a0It’s part memoir, part humorous essay collection, and[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[1600,524,165,420,1599],"class_list":["post-11285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-comdedians","tag-comedy","tag-humor","tag-women","tag-women-in-show-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2W1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11285"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11401,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions\/11401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}