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An affair to remember, I guess

The princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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I’m not totally sure why I picked this book, I didn’t watch the Star Wars movies until I was in college, and as such, they never caught fire for me.  I enjoy watching them with my 9 year old kid, because they bring him joy, but I’m Luke warm over them (my phone capitalized the “luke” so I didn’t set out to make a pun, but here we are). I was browsing audio books from my library and I wanted a light read. This book passed the time well enough, but it was incredibly uneven to me.  The intro talked […]

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2/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

CBR Bingo: (Grammy) Award Winner

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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If I could only read one category of book for the rest of my life it would probably be memoir. I’ve always been a fan of the genre whether they’re written by regular folks with a sense of humor, survivors of strange upbringings and of course celebrity memoirs. During Cannonball Ten I have been revisiting a few of these old favorites by listening to the audio-book to glean any additional insights narration may offer. I read and reviewed Carrie Fisher’s 2016 memoir The Princess Diarist last year for CBR9, just a few weeks after her untimely death, but for my award winner bingo square […]

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10/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:109 |

“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”

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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Bingo Square: Birthday At around the time she began filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens (I believe), Carrie Fisher rediscovered journals from when she was 19 and filming the original film. She published excerpts from these diaries here, along with other insights about the bizarreness of fame and what it means to be associated with such a beloved character for so long. She also reveals an affair she had with Harrison Ford during said original film. It pains me to say I didn’t really enjoy this one. I’ve read others of hers and thought they were great – she’s an […]

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9/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

faintingviolet gave me this book right before Carrie Fisher died, and I’m only now not too sad to read it.

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

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I’ve really been trying to make an effort in 2018 to read books I already own. Currently the amount of books I own but haven’t read, including in audio and e-book, numbers around 221. faintingviolet gave me this book in the CBR book exchange in December 2016, two weeks before Carrie Fisher died. Even though I was beyond excited to finally have it in my possession, since it had been on my TBR for years and I’d never gotten around to it, I just couldn’t make myself read it. I was still too sad that she was gone. But I’m now in a […]

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2/16/2018 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

“It’s All in the Past, so Who Gives a Sh!t?”

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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At first glance, the quote I referenced in the title seems counterintuitive. I quite loved Carrie Fisher’s anecdote/diary/book about her time on the first Star Wars set, but the quote seems to brush the past aside. Who cares about how Carrie Fisher didn’t really want to be in show business? Who cares that she was not only Princess Leia, but also a young adult still trying to find her footing in the world? Who cares that Carrie Fisher was one of the few women on the Star Wars set? Who cares about any of these details? What’s refreshing is that the sense […]

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1/3/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

End in Sight

Burden of Proof; Invisible Cities; Shockaholic; White Rage; Ten Days in a Mad-House; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Scott Turow; Italo Calvino; Carrie Fisher; Carol Anderson; Nellie Bly; Shirley Jackson

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Burden of Proof – 3/5 Stars So this is a second of the “Kindle County” series books that Turow has been publishing over the course of the last 30 years. I reviewed the first one a few months back. This a “legal thriller” and starts with Sandy Stern (of Argentine Jewish descent, which comes up, repeatedly) finding his wife dead in the garage of a possible suicide. There is a note but few clues as to what might have happened. Over the course of the subsequent days and weeks Sandy begins to piece together a hidden life that he never […]

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12/19/2017 's CBR9 Review No:504 |

May the Force be with you

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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“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. I’ve also always liked Carrie Fisher, whether it was in Star Wars or When Harry Met Sally, and […]

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12/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:9 |

Vocabular Degeneration

Wishful Drinking; The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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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 this aloud to my girlfriend and the sadness and the funniness helped created a nice […]

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8/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:326 |


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