The Princess Diarist

I had originally planned for this to be my first read of 2017, but then the end of December 2016 happened and I couldn't quite get myself to start this.

A lot of this book looks back on how Carrie Fisher experienced the first Star Wars movie. Before, during, and after. Inspired by her finding the old journals she wrote during the filming of it.

Carrie was like no other, and this book is at times surprisingly comical, but also really dark. The journals (read by her daughter, Billie Lourd) are touching and beautiful but also sad.
What also takes up a lot of this book is her affair with Harrison Ford, and it's hard to not look critically at it, especially when she was still so young compared to him. But I digress.

This was a great listen, even if she tended to go on rants that seemed to go on and on without really getting to a point. So even with this already being a relatively short book, it wouldn't hurt to have been trimmed down a little or edited a bit more. My only real gripe though, and I'll surely look out for some of her previous books.