“If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing.” Carrie Fisher is an icon. Even kids today know that white dress and the hairdo, made famous in a movie forty years old. Having been introduced to Star Wars at a young age by my brothers, I’ve found that I know the films so well that I can’t even look at them critically. They’ve just always been a part of my life. […]
Vocabular Degeneration
Wishful Drinking This is a tough book to read. It’s really funny and really interesting, but you can feel as you’re reading, with it’s repetition, it’s constant reminder that she’s had electroconvulsive therapy, memory loss, years of drug abuse, and all that that she’s just not all there anymore. But, if she weren’t so honest about everything, then it would be unbearable. Instead, there’s just a lower-lying scrim over everything knowing that so much has been lost. Regardless, the book is really funny. I read […]
Wishful Drinking
I’m discovering that hearing an author read his/her memoir, it brings the writing to life and makes it seem very conversational. Carrie Fisher does an amazing job and narrating the story of her life. The inflections, laughs, shouts, and interruptions incorporate a level of sincerity and humor that wouldn’t be available by just reading her memoir. I’m sad to say that I’m coming late to Ms. Fisher’s works. They’ve been on my to-read list for awhile but it was her untimely death that pushed me […]
Shockaholic
In recent years, I’ve found that I like listening to audiobooks while on road trips. When I was younger, I’d prefer to read the books myself rather than be read too, but now that I do some of the driving (and trying to make cannonball), I don’t mind using the time to see if I can’t complete a book or two on a trip. This past February, I was on a trip with my wife and we both decided to listen to Carrie Fisher’s works. […]
The last Carrie Fisher. Sadly, it’s not the best Carrie Fisher.
I’ve been waiting for about two months for the library audiobook hold to come through, and it finally arrived! And then, of course, I was busy with podcasts and other listening flotsam before I made my way to Carrie Fisher’s final book. It was a bittersweet experience, partly because it was the last, and partly because it wasn’t the best. Fisher discovered some old diaries that she had written while filming the first Star Wars film and decided to write a book about that experience, […]
Never too Short for a Stormtrooper
The Princess Diarist was not as hard to read, as I was afraid it was going to be, even after the death of Carrie Fisher. I’m not quite sure what I was expecting, but I thought this rumination on Princess Leia and how that character, and the filming of Star Wars, changed her life was interesting. The only other thing I’ve read by Carrie Fisher is an article she wrote lambasting the gold bikini, which I liked, but this collection of memories around Star Wars […]
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