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The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

I started Carrie Fisher’s book, The Princess Diarist, in its audio book version. I loved it so much that I purchased the kindle version so that I could finish it in front of the TV and once completed drove to my local book store to purchase the paperback because I simply had to own it. (the paperback version includes pics!)

To be honest, I’m a bit embarrassed to say that I didn’t know that Carrie Fisher was a prolific author. I came of age in the 80’s and of course I remember the movie Postcards From the Edge (1987), starring Meryl Streep adapted from Carrie Fisher’s book of the same title, but I didn't know that Carrie’s writing actually took off from that point. Fisher wrote seven books - four novels and three memoirs. You gotta love a women who needs more than one memoir to get her story out into the world.

I happened upon this last memoir, her last book, a few weeks ago whilst searching my audio book list for something juicy and compelling. The Princess Diarist fit the bill. The audio version of the book is fantastic because Fisher narrates the book. She is really good at it.

Fisher dishes about her early acting career and landing the gig as Princess Lea in the original Star Wars trilogy. The middle of this thoroughly enjoyable book is about her affair with Harrison Ford while filming Star Wars, 1977, in London when she was 19. Yikes. This was Fisher’s third of three memoirs and she had never before mentioned an affair with Hans Solo (ahem, I mean, Harrison Ford).