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Review: Bossypants

Bossypants Bossypants by Tina Fey
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Let me set the scene:

Last week I was in Phys Ed class playing the ol' badminton. Our school only has one gym, and my class 60 kids. So you can imagine how cramped it was. Each team had 3 people on the court at a time, and yes, it was a mess. And then one of my partners slammed me in the right eyeball with their racquet. My glasses broke into three pieces as they tumbled to the hardwood gym floor. This was the second time my face had been assaulted resulting in broken frames, so you could say I was a broken-glasses veteran. With my experience I didn't freak out, just was slightly annoyed. Nothin' some good old super glue can't fix, right? So I tried to continue playing but I quickly realized that I could no longer keep my eye open. It felt extremely irritated and even if I shut just the one and kept the other open, it still hurt. When I closed both of them, then it was a little better. Realizing this, I knew I needed to get off the damn court and onto the bench.

Luckily gym was the last class of the day, so I got some ice, cried, changed out of my gym strip, and left. When I got home I told my ma and deposited what used to be my eyeglasses onto a counter for her (with her still intact eyes) to glue back together. I isolated myself in my room, pulling all the blinds shut and making my room as dark as possible, for the light was not helping my situation. I quickly decided there was only one course of action. I couldn't read. I couldn't look at any screens for longer than 5 seconds. I generally couldn't do anything that used my eyes. So? Audiobook.

I picked up this specific audiobook because I heard so many people raving about how amazing Tina and her voice and her story is. It was also the first thing that popped into my mind. I listened to most but not all of it that day, and then finished it today.

It was pretty good, some parts better than others. There was a part I outright skipped because it was boring but the book was overall alright. A thing tho was, I don't know why people were so impressed by Tina's reading. When it first started I thought I got some like butched up version with someone else reading it. The voice sounded dull, and not at all what I was expecting. It never really made me laugh. A few chuckles, but that was it. So yeah like I said, it was decent.

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