Look, Carrie Fisher is awesome, right? We can all agree on that? This book is a meandering mess of stories, with no clear thread to connect them and some pretty crazy turns towards the end. But Carrie Fisher is awesome, so you should read it anyway — for all of its hot mess-ness, it’s still pretty freaking funny. “You see, even after decades of therapy and workshops and retreats and twelve-steps and meditation and even experiencing a very weird session of rebirthings, even after rappeling down […]
“You have epiphanies all the time. They just don’t have any effect.”
I love Carrie Fisher’s performance in the original Star Wars films, and in The Force Awakens; her eyes in particular slew me. It was her appearance on 30 Rock, however, and her sharp, wild and funny chat show appearances on Conan and The Graham Norton Show, as well as her comments on Hollywood, that made me want to read her books. I began with Postcards from the Edge (1987). It’s very good. It’s a fragmented sort of narrative that reflects its title; it begins with […]
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