Saturday, April 22, 2017

Outstanding books for the College Bound: Bossypants by Tina Fey

Bossypants 
Fey, Tina. (2011), Bossypants. New York: Little Brown & Co.
 I listened to this on audiobook, and I'm so glad I did! I can't imagine how much less fun this would have been without Tina's actual voice. A collection of biographical essays and thematically related humor pieces rather than a straight chronological reminiscence, it includes a women’s-magazine parody touting Fey’s beauty secrets, a tongue-in-cheek “prayer” for her daughter, a mock facts-of-life brochure for girls, a sendup of the fictional parenting concept of “me time” and so on. The writing doesn’t so much flow from one topic to another as stop for scene changes. Ms. Fey’s self-image as a smart, unyielding woman who has forced her way to the top of what is usually a man’s profession. 


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