The Princess Diarist in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Jan 29, 2017 Melissa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: badass-ladies, books-i-heard

Man, could Carrie Fisher write a sentence. I'm glad I listened to this on audio - I'll miss the voice she grew into, that gravelly, roughened voice that said she went through some shit times but came out the other side. May the Force Be With You, General Organa. ...more

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Feb 20, 2017 Mycala rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2017, memoir

I'm going to probably lose a few friends over this admission, but I was a kid in the 70s and even though I was there right in the midst of the whole Star Wars thing from the start, it never really "grabbed" me. I just pretty much had absolutely no opinion one way or the other. In fact, I finally watched Star Wars (none of the sequels... or prequelsequels) around 2005 when someone who was in my life at the time couldn't believe I had never seen it and insisted I watch. Sometimes I may not jump on ...more

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Apr 20, 2017 Claudia Recinos rated it really liked it

My heart is aching. I've never been a huge Star Wars fan. But I'll always be a Carrie fan. 💛 ...more

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May 21, 2017 Erin rated it liked it

Shelves: biography-memoir, entertainment, nonfiction, audiobooks

Treadmill book.

Carrie Fisher you were gone much too soon. It's so hard to believe that the vibrant voice from this audiobook is now gone from this earth.

So, Fisher wrote any number of autobiographical books; this one is primarily about the few months of filming "Star Wars," but really about her affair with Harrison Ford. She was nineteen, he was much older, and married. She was in the throes of first love, he was in an unhappy marriage. I could have done without the long ramblings from her jour ...more

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Dec 07, 2017 Maya rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, 2017

I listened to this one and it was certainly entertaining, but it felt more like it should be a long essay and not a whole book. I almost quit listening when i hit the diary entry portion; it was uncomfortable to listen to. I had that feeling of being painfully embarrassed for her, like if someone was reading my own diaries from when I was that age in public. But thankfully that section was short and it picked up again with her meandering thoughts about her relationship with Harrison Ford and abo ...more

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Nov 19, 2017 Cas rated it liked it · review of another edition

DNF
I like the idea of Carrie Fisher better than actually listening to Carrie Fisher talk. For some reason I thought this would be different from other celebrity autobiographies. It isn't. if you like them, you'll probably love this book because it is a great look at the set of Star Wars. I'm always disappointed by books written by celebrities so I should have known that I wouldn't like it. I thought it would be different with this one because she has a great reputation as a memoirist. But I stil ...more

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