257 pages
English language
Published Nov. 14, 2016
In 1976, Carrie Fisher was a teenager filming a movie, with an all-consuming crush on her costar. And it just happened to become one of the most famous films of all time -- the first Star wars movie. When she recently discovered the journals she had kept, she found them full of plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. In revisiting her diaries, Fisher ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity as well as the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty whose lofty status has ultimately been surpassed by her own outer-space royalty.
Première fois que je découvre Carrie Fisher par l'écrit, et je me rends compte d'à quel point elle pouvait être touchante et humaine. Profondément fragile et honnête. Ce livre traite principalement de ses angoisses de jeunesse et du tout premier Star Wars, de son rapport au succès, aux fans, de son crush adolescent sur Harrison Ford, un ensemble au final extrêmement touchant. Triste qu'elle nous ait quittée.
I picked this up because she's gone and the latest Star Wars movie was about to come out, her last. Glad I did. It's a fun, funny, stream of consciousness stroll through both memories and reflections on life 40 years on. Makes me even more wistful wishing she was still with us.
