When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved - plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naivetU, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Now her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her co-star, Harrison Ford. With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher's intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time - and what developed behind the scenes. Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candour and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.
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"The Princess Diarist" was an easy read, providing insight into one most notably known as Princess Leia.
The book was divided into roughly three sections:
1) Life before Leia and Carrie’s affair with Harrison Ford
2) Carrie’s poetry and some diary entries from when she was filming the first Star Wars movie and had her affair
3) Life post-affair
My favourite part was definitely Carrie’s poetry. I hadn’t read much poetry, but from what I could tell it was quite good. However, I would have preferred to physically read it rather than listen to it.
While not amazing, I would recommend "The Princess Diarist" to those who like Star Wars and are interested in Carrie’s life. - Melissa (QBD)
Guest, 10/11/2017
