Bossypants by Tina Fey

Being a huge fan of Tina Fey this book had been on my to-read list for a long time. Sadly, it didn't live up to my hopes. Admittedly a little slow, I had to force myself through it, just for the sake of saying I've read it, but I kept hoping I would find something better in the next chapter.

Defiantly written for older people, she lists off so many actors who I have no idea who they are I feel a little lost but don't care enough to google them all. Plus, if it were a movie it would be rated R for all the language. Why did she feel the need to swear so much?

I felt like I was reading a biography about Liz Lemon - from the foot phobia even down to the piss in jars - but I guess you are supposed to write about what you know, right?

There is basically an entire chapter about how much she loves gays. Okay, we get it, you're a liberal. 

She also goes on about how racism is terrible, but still all the while making racist jokes throughout the entire book. 

Also, I feel like 75% of it is trying to argue that women are funny - but she's not very convincing in that argument in author form.

If you are a fan of SNL or 30 Rock it's a decent read with some interesting bits. But all in all it just seems like a random string of thoughts with blimps of someone's life history, with an abrupt empty ending

The Defining Decade

I FINALLY finished reading the Defining Decade. Remember how I started reading that forever ago? October of 2012 to be exact. Ridiculous. I basically forgot about it. But I committed to finally finish it as one of the hopefully many books I will read this year. 

The Defining Decade helps you open your eyes of how important your twenties are and makes a convincing argument as to why you shouldn't just waste them away.

Such a seriously good read! I won't go on about it, I will just share with you a few of my favorite quotes and bits that I found that really spoke to me that might speak to you too;

"I feel like I'm in the middle of the ocean. Like I could swim in any direction but I can't see land on any side, so I don't know which way to go."

"He felt overwhelmed by the prospect that he could swim anywhere or do anything. He was equally paralyzed by the fact that he didn't know which of the anything's would work out. - Pick a direction and start swimming. But you can't tell one way from the other, so you can't pick. You can't even tell if you're swimming toward something, so why would you use up all your energy going the wrong way? I guess all you can do is hope someone comes along in a boat or something."

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"It is easy to feel overwhelmed by uncertainty, to want to lie low with the urban tribe, or our parents, until our brains just mature on their own and somehow suddenly know the sure answers to our lives. But that's not how the brain works. And that's not how life works. Besides, even if our brains could wait, love and work can't. The twenties are, indeed, the time to get busy. It's forward thinking for an uncertain age."

"Sam had it all backward. The way he saw it, he couldn't join the world until he felt like a man, but he wasn't going to feel like a man until he joined the world."

"Never again will we be so quick to learn new things. Never again will it be so easy to become the people we hope to be. The risk is that we may not act now."

 "It was like I had traded five years of partying or hanging out in coffee shops for five more years I could have had with my son if I'd grown up sooner."

Mocking Jay

So, trying to keep to my goal of reading at least one book a month I finally read the last in the Hunger Games series, Mockingjay. Oh my good heavens, what a waste of my time. I kept reading it, hoping that it would eventually get better, but it never did. I can honestly 100% say that was the all time worst book I have ever read. I am absolutely shocked that they are splitting it into two movies. How in the helk do they plan on doing that? I wanted to give myself some time between reading it and writing a blog post about it, but the fury I felt still lingers! Honestly I haven't really read anything since I finished it because I am scared of being so let down by yet another book! But I have started reading Bossypants by Tina Fey (which has been a little disappointing but I'm still fighting through it...)

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

My first issue with Mockingjay, since it had been awhile since I read the other ones, I had forgotten how gory these are. One of the reasons I hate them. I don't want my children to ever read these books. No one under 16 should read this series but especially this last book. As an aspiring author I think that is what the most difficult for me to stomach. That someone came up with such a gory and twisted story. And it only makes it worse that it's geared to teens who LOVE IT. Yikes.

I've found it hard to find a book with a main character I really love. I can't think of a book I have read since Harry Potter where I don't find the main character dreadfully whiny and annoying. Katniss is no exception and is even worse. In the previous book she was annoying, but at least she was strong willed and at least something somewhat good to look up to as a strong girl. But in this last book she just dissolves into a drug obsessed depressed mess, who has no control of her life, and doesn't seem to even care to have control. She literally gives up. 

The ending wasn't as depressing as people painted it out to be. It has a relatively happy ending - mostly - she ends up with Peeta and lives mostly happily ever after - begrudgingly becoming a mother.

The entire book really drags. I had to force myself to read it not just skip to the end and read the last few chapters, which I wish I would have done. They are really splitting it into two movies? How? Part one will be boring as hell. Don't waste your time reading this book. I really hope they take some serious liberties to make it more hopeful, and paint Katniss as a better example for girls to look up to.