As
I expected, Tina Fey’s memoir Bossypants was a very funny book. I enjoyed it
because Ms. Fey was able to laugh at herself and make her life story into a
hilarious read. I loved reading this book mainly because in her writing, Tina
Fey does not take herself too seriously. An example of this is in one of my
favorite chapters, Dear Internet. In this chapter Ms. Fey responds to comments
made about her on the internet. To the rude comment “Tina Fey is an ugly, pear
shaped, bitchy, overrated troll” (164), she responds “To say that I’m an
overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently
unfair” (164). Most people would have been very offended by this but Ms. Fey was
able to make it into something entertaining. Moments like these are why I liked
reading this book so much.
Another
reason why I like this memoir was because one of its major themes is feminism.
The way that Ms. Fey handles such a busy job and still is able to keep up with
her family life is quite inspiring, but she admits that she is not perfect:
“How do you juggle it all? People constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in
their eyes your fucking it all up their eyes say” (256). Tina Fey’s memoir was
particularly enjoyable to me because she showed the reader who she really was
and did not try to make herself seem flawless.
Other
Memoirs I have read are Maus and the Glass Castle. These two memoirs are very
different from Bossypants. The
biggest difference is that the authors of Maus
and the Glass Castle wrote about
their lives from harshly realistic perspectives while Tina Fey wrote about hers
from a softer one. Out of all the memoirs I have read I think I enjoyed Bossypants the most because it made me
laugh not cry.
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