Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Wishful Drinking
Book Review: Brave Woman, Amusing Memoir
Summary: 3 Stars
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Carrie Fisher's memoir is written in a humorous and entertaining style. It's a short read with large type and pictures, filled mostly with musings by Carrie Fisher on her unusual life and on living with bipolar illness and addiction. It seemed very authentic, and I enjoyed it.
I would recommend it for anyone interested in celebrity culture, but also for those readers interested in successfully living with mental illness.
I gave this book only three stars, because although I enjoyed it, I didn't think it was very substantial for the price (just over 150 pages) and because I didn't think it was that well written. However, I admire Carrie Fisher for her courage and am glad she decided to share her experience with us.
Recommended, with caveats.
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Book Review: Carrie Fisher "Wishful Drinking"
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is both funny and interesting. Carrie has the ability to find humor in painful situations and her experiences have been both facinating and enjoyable to read about. I can't wait to read her other books! She is a really gifted writer!Book Review: Carrie Fisher Finds Humor in Her Troubles
Summary: 4 Stars
Aside from that weird Princess Leia hairstyle, baby-boomer Carrie Fisher seemed to have everything:
*Celebrity parents. Let's call them the '50s Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt.
*Starring role in a cult-classic movie at 19. Who hasn't seen Star Wars?
*Brilliant singer-songwriter husband with mega-hits like "The Sound of Silence." What a cute couple! They were even the same height.
So what went wrong?
Continue reading this review at The Boomer Brief website.
Book Review: Consistent Giggling, interspersed with bouts of Hysterical Laughter
Summary: 5 Stars
This book just saved my life. So I'm reading it again. Funny, witty, candid, honest, clever, fun. It's very short, unfortunately, but feels like a conversation. Can't wait for another. Carrie Fisher has always been known for her humor and wacky stories and this is one of the best she's done. Apparently, all true. She's paid a high price for such a fascinating life, and all that she'll leave behind in books and film is well worth it to the rest of us that enjoy her work in all it's facets.
I recommend this to everyone, because, lets face it, everyone's a little nuts, and it helps to have someone nuttier to laugh at. And relate to. And this makes it all okay.
Thanks!
Book Review: Crass cashing in
Summary: 1 Stars
Evidently, this slim "book" is some kind of distillation of a "show" of some sort by Fisher. It's extremely short -150 pages with very big type - and it's apparently designed as some sort of therapy. Fisher manages to get the definitions of bipolar 1 and 2 reversed, which only proves, I guess, that she suffers from the emotional disturbance, as she 'confesses" here. Only for diehard "Star Wars" fanatics still in love with Princess Leia. I got this out of the library. Don't spend money on it.