Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Search This Site

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

by 4 Comments

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 […]

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

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

Vocabular Degeneration

Wishful Drinking; The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

by Leave a Comment

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 […]

Share the post "Vocabular Degeneration"

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

“Keep in mind though, I’m a PEZ dispenser and I’m in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can’t have it all?”

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

by 1 Comment

Like half a dozen other Cannonballers I have gone back through the Carrie Fisher catalog in the months following her untimely passing.  The Princess Diarist, Shockaholic and now Wishful Drinking (yeah, I realize I went backwards but I read them chronologically the last go around). “If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.” I listened to the audio-book this go around, which I wasn’t ready to do with her other two memoirs, and it really punches you in the face how amazing Fisher was. She’s self deprecating in her writing and exuberant in her reading. Wishful […]

Share the post "“Keep in mind though, I’m a PEZ dispenser and I’m in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can’t have it all?”"

4/3/2017 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

A Book That Rubs in What We’ve Lost

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fischer

by 1 Comment

Like many people, I’m sure, I set out to find some of Carrie Fisher’s writing after hearing of her passing, and crying a lot over various tumblr posts about the fierce, proud, witty, wonderful woman we’d just lost. It was surprisingly easy to get my hands on a copy of Wishful Drinking, Fisher’s short, sharp memoir that’s largely just a collection of anecdotes about her remarkable and exciting life, and I devoured it in a matter of hours. It definitely did not help with the crushing feeling of loss at her death, so there’s that. It did make me laugh […]

Share the post "A Book That Rubs in What We’ve Lost"

1/20/2017 's CBR9 Review No:6 |

“It’s sort of like glowing in your own dark.”

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

by 7 Comments

In honor of the late Carrie Fisher, I picked up her audiobook of Wishful Drinking.  This was written/performed about 8 years ago after Ms. Fisher went through electroconvulsive therapy, with a side effect of the therapy affecting her memories.  So she wrote the show/book to help her remember.  I highly recommend the audiobook version, as Carrie reads/performs her own work. We tend to skip around in time a lot, which I suppose is understandable given her condition. Before I picked this up I really had no knowledge of Ms. Fisher’s personal life. I knew her, as many people did, as […]

Share the post "“It’s sort of like glowing in your own dark.”"

1/18/2017 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

Goodnight, Sweet Princess …

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

by 5 Comments

I happened to be at the Disney park that has franchised most of the Star Wars experience last week when I heard about Carrie Fisher’s passing. Talk about bittersweet, as we saw posters of Princess Leia, from all of her franchise appearances, around the park. I first saw Star Wars on its first release in 1977, and loved her spunky take on the princess, although I have to admit my young teen eyes and heart were mostly focused on the dreamy Luke Skywalker. But I have enjoyed Carrie Fisher in many other things, so she has never been only Princess Leia to me. When Harry […]

Share the post "Goodnight, Sweet Princess …"

1/3/2017 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

Thank you to our most lovely exchange coordinator, faintingviolet, for my new books :D

Wishful Drinking, Austenland, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Carrie Fisher, Shannon Hale, Neil Gaiman

by 5 Comments

I came home from a poop day at work to a book exchange package from Katie (faintingviolet) and it made my day. I legit squealed when I opened the first book and saw Wishful Drinking. And I’ve been meaning to read Austenland and start Sandman for yearrrrs. (Although, I will confess that I’m actually super intimidated to start Sandman.) Thank you so much, Katie! And thank you for organizing this beautimous tradition.

Share the post "Thank you to our most lovely exchange coordinator, faintingviolet, for my new books :D"

12/9/2016 's CBR8 Review No:0 |


Shop on Amazon and Support CBR

Buy Original Cannonballer Prisco's book and help CBR!

Ad Partner