Wishful Drinking- Carrie Fisher

Essentially, there is only 1 thing preventing me from giving this memoir my first 5 bookworm review- it was too short! It’s very clear that this is a by-product of the 1-woman show of the same name and was not given much extra consideration to flesh this out to a truly awesome memoir. In case you can’t place a face to the name, Carrie Fisher played Princess Laia… yeeah. Also, she underwent electroshock therapy… yeeah. She highlights some absolutely fascinating stories about her life, but I wanted more. Tell me more about your crazy childhood! And as much as I hate to admit it, tell me more about sex with Chris Dodd (woot CT)! The writing style is intimate, and you can occasionally sense how difficult rehashing all of this is. And while I enjoyed the writing style, I kept think that there is no way an editor had looked at it. Perhaps because it came straight from the monologues of her show? Again, I felt as if the stories were too rushed, too quickly mentioned, and too quickly left to the wayside to be forgotten about like one of her stints in rehab. She is currently performing in NYC (at Studio 54, no less!), and I want to go see how this stacks up to the hardcover version. May the force make it better!

4 bookworms.