Bossypants by Tina Fey is one of those books that just seemed to appear on my shelves years ago and I finally got around to reading. If the title was not clear enough, the book is about Tina’s journey to accepting that not everyone will like what you do, but to just do your own thing anyway.

While not everyone can relate to the life of late night TV or creating TV shows, Tina definitely brings her signature humor and outlook on life to each page. I do really enjoy Tina’s sarcasm and style of humor, and the profanity that was included in the book I thought was well-placed and not over done. Bossypants is humorous and entertaining throughout, but still filled with nuggets of wisdom. As Tina said (obviously directed towards other women), “Don’t be fooled. You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.”

It was wonderful to get to see Tina’s side of events for things that I remember influencing me while growing up - from her really resisting the idea of parodying Sarah Palin to creating 30 Rock - and I finished the book feeling inspired, but not in the *immediately jump up and go do something way*.

I do wish that I had listened to the audiobook over reading, which is a massive thing to say since I generally don’t enjoy audiobooks. But, since Tina’s voice came through so clearly in reading Bossypants, and since she narrated the audiobook version, I think it would have definitely enhanced my overall experience.

Finally, I shall leave you with the quote that stuck out to me the most, and one that I wish more people would understand:

“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”