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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

February 16, 2018 by narfna 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 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: #memoir, adapted, carrie fisher, Celebrity Memoir, ECT, faintingiviolet, humor, manic depression, narfna, Non-Fiction, Psychology, read harder challenge 2018, star wars, wishful drinking

narfna's CBR10 Review No:24 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: #memoir, adapted, carrie fisher, Celebrity Memoir, ECT, faintingiviolet, humor, manic depression, narfna, Non-Fiction, Psychology, read harder challenge 2018, star wars, wishful drinking ·
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Vocabular Degeneration

Wishful Drinking; The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

August 10, 2017 by vel veeter 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 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: carrie fisher, the princess diarist, wishful drinking

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:326 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: carrie fisher, the princess diarist, wishful drinking ·
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“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

April 3, 2017 by Caitlin_D 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 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: carrie fisher, wishful drinking

Caitlin_D's CBR9 Review No:38 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: carrie fisher, wishful drinking ·
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A Book That Rubs in What We’ve Lost

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fischer

January 20, 2017 by Kiasha 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 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Carrie Fischer, Non-Fiction, wishful drinking

Kiasha's CBR9 Review No:6 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Carrie Fischer, Non-Fiction, wishful drinking ·
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“It’s sort of like glowing in your own dark.”

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

January 18, 2017 by crystalclear 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 […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, autobiography, carrie fisher, wishful drinking

crystalclear's CBR9 Review No:2 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, autobiography, carrie fisher, wishful drinking ·
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Goodnight, Sweet Princess …

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

January 3, 2017 by xoxoxoe 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 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: #memoir, autobiography, Books, carrie fisher, cbr9, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, star wars, the princess diarist, wishful drinking

xoxoxoe's CBR9 Review No:2 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: #memoir, autobiography, Books, carrie fisher, cbr9, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, star wars, the princess diarist, wishful drinking ·
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