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Tina Fey: Bossypants (2012, Back Bay Books/Little, Brown) 4 stars

Review of 'Bossypants' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I listened to this audiobook while travelling and enjoyed every minute of it. Tina Fey is very smart, very funny, and very clever. The book is a mix of serious and funny, all very on-target and filled with laughs. There are brilliant quotes all through, my favorite was:
"It stinks, like axe body spray on a brick of blue cheese."

The best part of getting this as an audio book is that Tina Fey herself reads it, and has clearly taken the effort to change the text slightly as appropriate (for example, referring to the book as an audio book, telling the reader to listen to the next chapter instead of read it). Little touches that don't affect the content but which I always find jarring in an audio book if they are not done, and simply read the written words exactly. Because it's an audio book she was also able to include the actual recordings of her Sarah Palin skits, rather than just transcribing them as must have been done in the print version, which made them so much better.

I did find the book was told from an unashamedly feminist perspective, and the way she says some things almost sounds as if she's not even expecting many men to read it and that her true audience is women. I don't know if that turned out to be true or not. It doesn't detract from the book at all, it just surprised me. And it would be a shame if it's true, because I think anybody should enjoy this book regardless of gender. It's a great look into the life and thoughts of a woman that I admire even more after listening to this book. Highly recommended!