The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
The news that Carrie Fisher died early this morning just broke my heart, the capper in a year that has seen so many of my childhood and teenage movie and music icons leave us. I had just finished listening to the audio version of The Princess Diarist last week, and was shocked at my timing. It was my first Carrie Fisher book experience, and I am so glad I listened to the audio, narrated by Carrie and her daughter, Billie Lourd. I never would have been able to appreciate Carrie's humor if I hadn't listened to her tell her stories. The biggest news from this memoir is, of course, her affair with Harrison Ford during the first Star Wars movie. She was 19, he was 35 and married. Carrie talks about her previous relationship with a young man who was also attending drama school with Carrie in London; he was really her first relationship with a man. She was pretty innocent at 19, and Harrison Ford thought she was much more experienced...