Princess Leia did what?

Maybe you only know Carrie Fisher as the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher (and, infamously, the step-daughter of Elizabeth Taylor). Or you maybe you only think of her as Princess Leia in the Star Wars movies. Or perhaps you’ve enjoyed her funny and acerbic novels like Postcards from the Edge and Delusions of Grandma.

Well, if you think you know Carrie Fisher at all, you haven’t read her new memoir Wishful Drinking. Fisher cultivated the book from a one-woman show she does by the same name and she doesn’t hold anything back.

Fisher unhinges her famously sharp wit to make such things as a father’s abandonment, drug addiction, mental illness and a dead friend in one’s bed absolutely hilarious! Holding nothing back, she recounts all sorts of juicy tidbits making them less about gossip and more about the pieces that have made her what she is today. Never whiney, and far for the spoiled Hollywood brats we often see in the media today, Fisher delivers a smart biting tell-all about how growing up famous (and, more importantly suffering from drug addiction and mental illness) affected her. If you like your memoirs nutty, this might be a good read for you!

To find this book in the Library, go to our website at http://www.newberglibrary.org/

Reviewed by Lori M.