The princess diarist

The first book I read by Carrie Fisher was [b:Wishful Drinking|4961048|Wishful Drinking|Carrie Fisher|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347698159s/4961048.jpg|5026857], a work in which she exposes herself in a very sincere and passionate way. From then on, I gained a deep admiration for the actress, realizing that she has faced good and bad times throughout her life.

Because of her tragic death last year, I decided to read [b:The Princess Diarist|26025989|The Princess Diarist|Carrie Fisher|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1482921522s/26025989.jpg|45949491] and, once again, I "met" Carrie Fisher in her rather intimate writing, not only revealing an old diary from her days in Star Wars IV, but also punctuating a few other moments of her trajectory as an actress and as the personification of Princess Leia Organa.

The book is very interesting, being a very sincere and harsh telling of her life experience. Fisher acknowledges to have been quite insecure in the mid-1970s', a point that has affected her in subsequent years. As I began to accompany the actress on social networks, I realized that her long learning process lasted until the last day of her life. One of the last tweets of the actress was about the critics of the fans about her aging and the arduous passage of time.

The book is very beautiful, especially when the actress shows her reflections about her aging, her relationship with her mother, her relationship with Star Wars fans and, most interestingly, her relationship with Princess Leia, always punctuated by several behind-the-scenes photos. The ending is quite sad, marked by another very emblematic photo of the actress's career.

I was quite saddened by the end of reading, feeling that we all lost a great human being, very sensitive and who still had much to teach us much more about humanity.

Real Rating: 3.5

This was the first book I have read from Carrie Fisher. I had never read of any of her other books but I had heard that many of her books were humorous and worth the read. This one drew my curiosity more when I learned that this book would contain information on her affair with Harrison Ford.

I was a bit disappointed.

She admits that because of all the pot smoking she did pretty much obscured her memories so the only thing she has to connect the dots with are the diaries she kept while having her weekend affair with Harrison Ford.

Yet, there are no major mentions of her working with Mark Hamill and what it had been like to be on the set of Star Wars.

But I do suppose smoking pot does cloud one's memories and thus you only have your diaries to fall back on. I just wish there had been more stuff from the Star Wars set. I don't expect scandal or gossip, just what it had been like to be there.

Maybe I need to read her other books.