A review by graciegrace1178
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

3.0

Review in progress
3.4 stars
Carrie?? did what??? WHAT

PT: Books that have been on my tbr for wayyy too long, acting/voices of actors, memoirs

WIL
1) acting is DIFFICULT and terrifying and demeaning! (again) (see Talking as Fast as I Can by lauren Graham for part 1)

2) unapologetically candid. *low whistle* impressive. Fisher's got a presence about her. She just says whatever she wants. It's pretty cool, I must say. (Cont on WIDL 2)

3)



WIDL
1) like most memoirs, this says a lot without really saying anything. I mean, it's entertaining enough, and it was nice to have the audiobook on in the background while I did other things, but it's not a book I'd really recommend to other people. It's just kinda there, yknow? If you need something to read, it's fine, but it's nothing stellar.

2) I smell NDAs. Some actor memoirs just feel heavily weighted by the invisible NDAs floating above each word, and boy is this one of them. Despite Fisher's attempt to be candid, there's still so much unsaid. The significant stuff of the industry and filming is largely brushed over, and it feels like the transparency in things like her Ford affair is a trick to distract from the actual opacity on everything else. Hmm.

3) Hamill got jipped. Mark was barely in this!!! What was that about!


NEUTRAL GROUND
1) Goodreads won't let me include my own image so you're gonna have to use your imagination here: description


was anyone gonna tell me that Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher had a "tryst" in the '70s, or was I just supposed to find that out in 2021, 5 years after Carrie's death myself? (Just picture the text on the image itself I'M SORRY I don't make the Goodreads rules.)