Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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This will be a quick entry because Mindy Kaling's book of essays is easy to review: pick up this book for a fun, easy read.  Seriously.  If you've watched The Office, or seen The Five-Year Engagement or No Strings Attached, you've heard of Mindy Kaling.  She's the funny girl you want to be best friends with.  She'll sit down and have a real, deep conversation about the merits of Beyonce music videos, help you pick out an outfit that won't highlight your body issues, and appreciates the self-portraits on your phone that don't make your head look massive.  Her book isn't laugh-out-loud funny, like Tina Fey's Bossypants, but it's way more accessible and a bit kinder. 

Also, she reaffirms how awesome Amy Poehler is in real-life.  This is vitally important to me, as I have to beleive that Amy Poehler is strikingly simliar to her Parks and Rec character.

Enjoy!

Bossypants

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This book was hysterical.  Laughing until I cried, rolling around on the floor, unable to breathe, funny.  Tina Fey's kind-of memoir doesn't cover anything truly ground-breaking, but she explains her rise to comedy heavy-hitter via Tina Fey impersonations, friendly but bitchy gays from high school,  YMCA receptionist in Chicago, and Second City improvisor.  On the way, she covers her horrible honeymoon, the first years of 30 Rock, a very brief description of how she got that infamous scar, an afternoon spent with Monica Lewinsky, why she hired the people she did for her TV show, and being a powerful woman in comedy.  I call it a "kind-of" memoir because there are essays about being female in a male-dominated workplace and fake letters to the Internet (among others).  And that cover...

Although there aren't heaps on adventure in Bossypants, I couldn't put it down.  And, somehow, I appreciated Tina Fey even more after reading it.  How is that possible?  I thought I couldn't like her more.