Will I love Bossypants?

I roll very hard for books about amazing people who make themselves seem human, too, not via false modesty but just people honest about their journey and the mistakes they made along the way.

Tina Fey was the youngest favorite child growing up in Philadelphia and had to learn that the wider world would not always give you a gold star on your homework the way she had always been given as the baby of her family and the only girl. And when she moved to Chicago to make it in sketch and improv comedy, she worked as a receptionist… show more.

I love Tina Fey and this book captures her personality and sense of humour perfectly. It's almost like she wrote it herself!

Even though I loved these awkward anecdotes about growing up, crappy jobs, trying desperately to lose her virginity - what is WRONG with American males? Look at her, she's beautiful! And she's a nerd! What more could you ask for? - and her rise to fame through improv, Saturday Night Live and the excellent 30 Rock, I feel there's probably even more to empathise with if you're a female person of the contradictory gender to myself (it's a… show more.

If you’re an over-achiever, you may have been accused of taking things too seriously. (I wouldn’t know anything about that, of course.) Tina Fey proves that the academic goody-two-shoes can also be the funniest person in the room. This autobiography is written as a series of stories from Fey’s life, as well as short reflections on issues like the objectification of women’s bodies. Reading this book made me feel like I too could be a funny person and that hard work doesn’t make me any less creative. 

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll laugh again and again and again. Tina Fey is wildly witty, and she’s got a stack of awards to prove it. I feel fortunate to have existed in the same lifetime as this writer/actor/producer/mom because few have risen to her level of top-notch humor that is served with a healthy side of bewilderment-that-she-got-so-far humility. Fey sums up her rise to the top with a quote worthy of a plaque hung over the mantel of my fireplace - “You are no one until someone calls you bossy.” Well said, Liz Lemon.