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Review: Bossypants

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I wasn't sure what to expect from comedienne Tina Fey 's memoir, Bossypants . She is so young, yet iconic and very successful. I wasn't completely disappointed with the memoir, but I also wasn't completely satisfied. I thought she wrote some funny stuff in her book and I laughed out loud quite often. I like funny. But I've read consistently funnier memoirs by people who aren't "professionally" funny. ( Caitlin Moran , anyone? Jenny Lawson ?) I know, the curse of the comedienne is that she's always expected to be hilarious, which isn't fair — but only when you bump into her at the grocery store. May I also ads: I have read more honest and revealing memoirs. At times she skated across the top, rather safely. That was disappointing. I was a little surprised by what she chose to include in her memoir: some of it was a little out of left field (climbing a mountain at night) and some of it was unexpectedly personal and rather un-fu...