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# The Princess Diarist Hardcover – November 22, 2016

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    For all that I loved her as an actress, her greatest talent was her writing.
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2018*

"There's not much in my life that I've kept secret. Many would argue there are certain otherwise-private stories I might've been wiser to keep closer to the vest. That vest knows no proximity." - Carrie FisherWhat in the world can be said about Carrie Fisher's remarkable gift for writing except that it was, in fact, remarkable.  For all that I loved her as an actress, for all that I truly ADORED her as my personal hero, Princess Leia, writing was where her true talent lay, and I believe this is where her heart really was."The Princess Diarist" was yet another entry into the brilliance of Ms. Fisher's mind, fogged and clouded as it was sometimes with her depression, sparkling at other times with her wit.  This was the most personal book she has written, I feel, and one of the most uplifting and most poignant.  She tells us in the first chapter that while going through some boxes of old writing she found the diaries she kept while filming the first Star Wars movie forty years beforehand.  She begins briefly with how she got into acting 2 years before that, despite never really actively wanting to be in show business at all, and moves quickly to those days of auditions, when she read both for the parts of Princess Leia in "Star Wars" and for the titular part in the horror film "Carrie."  "I thought that last role would be a funny casting coup if I got it: Carrie *as* Carrie *in* 'Carrie'."  Her recollections of her own inner monologues after the casting call are fun and funny, and the way she remembers reading the script for the first is vivid and touching how much she loved it (even though that script would later be completely redone since Star Wars was not going to have that kind of budget).  She tells us how much she wanted the part, how excited she was when she got the call that "they want you." She remembers laughing and running into the street in the rain. "It didn't rain in L.A.  It was raining in L.A. and I was Princess Leia.  I had never been Princess Leia before and now I would never not be Princess Leia.  I had no idea how profoundly true that was and how long forever was."The biggest chunk of the book is her recollections of the things that happened behind the scenes during the three-month shooting, wrapping up with the crazy-wild reception of the film after it's release.  Did you know that the term "blockbuster" was born shortly after "Star Wars" premiered as way to describe the lines going around the block and continuing to the next one?  Carrie tells us, "It was *one movie*. It wasn't supposed to do *that.* Nothing ever had. Movies were meant to stay on the scree, flat and large and colorful, gathering you up in their sweep of story, carrying you rollicking along to the end, then releasing you back into your unchanged life. But this movie misbehaved. It leaked out of the theater, poured off the screen, affected a lot of people so deeply that they required endless talismans and artifacts to stay connected to it... And on top of whatever else, Mark, Harrison, and I were the only people who were having this experience. So who do talk to that might understand?" She goes on to say that this was completely unlike starring in your average everyday movie because now she was a household name and there were cameras everywhere. "I had to comport myself with something approaching dignity, at *twenty.*" So her recollections of being in that movie forty years before could and can still apply to young stars today as an object lesson.The last 2 chapters of the book tell us about Ms. Fisher's more recent fan encounters at the conventions where she signs autographs and gives pictures, how she feels about Leia now (you'll be surprised) and how life as Leia has affected her now that the has distance and perspective of forty years to better dissect the unadulterated fandom that has surrounded this character she brought to life.Altogether a thoroughly entertaining read, and not just for the fans.  Having read excerpts to my 65 year old mother who was never a fan (though she had been forced to at least peripherally watch the original trilogy multiple times due to *my* fandom and the fact that we were never so well off that there were TVs and VCRs in the kids' rooms), she was entertained enough to download the sample for herself and hooked enough from the start to buy the book. I would hear her laughing at loud when she read on her lunch break where we worked together, and also sometimes making sympathetic noises or faces at her Kindle. Trust me, you don't have to be a Star Wars fan to love this one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Forever a Princess
  

*by T***  on Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2022*

Wow.  I have, of course, always loved Star Wars and Princess Leia, and, eventually, once I was older and capable of understanding the difference between a character and the actor playing the character, I have loved Carrie Fisher.  I love her honesty and self doubt, her swearing, although it was sadly lacking in this book.  I love her openness and her willingness to share the deepest insecurities of being a new adult and her perspectives of those times now that time has marched across her mind, body, and soul.  I love this book because now that she is gone, I can still open and skim through lines that I've highlighted and they will warm my heart knowing that this crazy ass world was once blessed with both Princess Leia AND Carrie Fisher.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Love and miss Carrie Fisher
  

*by L***A on Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2022*

What a wonderfully engaging writer. Funny, poignant, thoughtful, honest and wise.  We lost a wonderful human being and great comic mind.

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