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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Nov 29, 2017 Sarah rated it it was ok

Shelves: non-fiction, memoir-and-bio, did-not-finish, audiobook

This isn't a behind the scenes look at the filming of the first Star Wars, and it isn't a juicy tell all of Fisher's affair with Harrison Ford. In some ways it is better and other ways worse. This begins with a brief look at Fisher's upbringing, her start in acting, and tells the entertaining story of her audition for Lucas (and oddly enough Brian DePalma). The focus of her story surrounding the filming focuses on what she calls 'Carrison'. But to join their names in that way signifies some sort ...more

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May 21, 2017 Erin rated it liked it

Shelves: entertainment, biography-memoir, audiobooks, nonfiction

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 27, 2016 pianogal rated it liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, z2016-reads

So sad that I finished this the day before she died. It started out so promising, but then got a little crazy - just like the lady herself. Still love Carrie Fisher. The force will always be with her.

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