Bossypants

Written comedy, spoken comedy. Not the same. Garrison Keillor on the radio way better than Garrison Keillor in a book. Tina Fey - really funny on 30 Rock (until we got bored of the show after 4 seasons and stopped watching...) and as a Sarah Palin impersonator.

I won this book in our book club book exchange (I haven't seemed to find a synonym for book in this sentence) last month, even though I am on the library waiting list for the audio version. So I read it.

Some was very funny, some not so much. I know she is actually a writer, but maybe not for parts of a memoir. I don't know.

I do know that I really liked the part of the book where she related about her first job out of college - at the Evanston, Illinois YMCA. Maybe the writing at that point is really good, but I also know that Y pretty well. The year we were on sabbatical in Evanston, I went to that Y 4-5 times every week. I could just imagine everything she was saying from the lycra moms to the preschool children who come in for their swim lessons.

I don't think I'll take my hold off of the audio version from the library queue. Tina Fey reading her own words may bring a new appreciation for the book. It may make a long car ride seem shorter.