Blog 6: Book 3 Listicle

Question posed: 5 reasons why Amy Poehler would love Tina Fey's novel, Bossy Pants.

As many people might already know, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler star in many Hollywood comedy productions such as, Sisters, Baby Mama, Anchorman 2 and Mean girls (all movie comedies). Tina and Amy both are known for their humorous personalities and they definitely work well together and also think alike when it comes to amusing the crowd.

1) Both give off the 'be afraid of me, I don't care what you think so I'm going to do me and you do you' type of personality. "Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it."
2) Amy and Tina both share the same liking of vulgar things... "Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers' room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through to start... Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke. I can't remember what it was exactly, except it was dirty and loud and 'unladylike'...."
3) Neither of them are afraid to go crazy on you if they feel is necessary... "Never tell a crazy person she’s crazy."

4) Both of their books (Amy's Yes Please! and Tina's Bossypants) extremely women-empowering.
5) They give you the strength and courage to want to be you, and only you, and not be afraid.... "You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing."

As a women, especially as a teenager, girls seem to have less self-confidence and are afraid to be themselves. Reading Tina Fey's novel helps you get a good laugh and know that it is okay to be weird and laugh at yourself. Having Amy love the book also just makes you admire their friendship and their personalities.  

Blog 5: The Truth in Memoir

    For a book to be non-fiction in my mind it has to be more correct than non-correct. When writing something such as an autobiography you're not going to remember a conversation word for word when you were a toddler or even from a couple months ago so not everything is totally true but the basic point is true. When I think of a fiction book I think of something that's never happen before or something that is totally unrealistic; that being said not everything has to be totally false for it to be a fiction book.
     I think a half-truth book just really isn't a non-fiction or fiction book. It is understandable when telling a story or writing a book you want to make it seem just a little more exciting without completely and flat out lying about something. I also think it really depends on how much you bent the truth and how much it impacts your story overall. If you bent the truth in a very large way and it was something that has major impact then it would be considered a fiction book in my mind, but if it was just something that is kind of irrelevant to the story then it isn't as big of a deal.
    To me fiction and non-fiction isn't a really huge deal. I think it is good to have some fiction and some non-fiction books but I don't think there is any harm in having books that are kind of just there and aren't in the non-fiction or fiction genre because there are more genres than just those two so no matter what the book will be classified in some sort of book type.