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Middlemarch
Rosemary Ashton and George Eliot
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George Eliot's masterpiece, groundbreaking in its psychological insight into powerful clashes of...
Play It As It Lays
Book
Benny called for a round of Cuba Libres and I gave him some chips to play for me and went to the...
Swann's Way
Book
Marcel Proust's seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu),...
Midnight's Children
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Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s...
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Andy K (10821 KP) created a video about in Movies are the shiz!
Mar 29, 2018
Sam Ribble (16 KP) rated The Princess Diarist in Books
May 18, 2017
May the force be with you
This is one book a couldn't put down. Carrie Fisher was honestly a great writer and actress.
Yoshi (40 KP) rated The Blues Brothers (1980) in Movies
May 19, 2018
MarshalDillion55 (100 KP) rated Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) in Movies
Dec 15, 2017
Bookish832 (16 KP) rated The Princess Diarist in Books
Sep 2, 2017
This book is so good. And Carrie Fisher was such a great writer. I love autobiographical books and this is honestly one of my favorites. I don't think you even have to be a fan of stars wars to appreciate the stories from these pages.
tapestry100 (306 KP) rated The Princess Diarist in Books
Aug 2, 2017
This is Carrie Fisher's memoir of her time during the filming of Star Wars Episode IV, including entries from the diaries she kept during that time that she recently discovered. I think this was the first time that Fisher really talked about her relationship with Leia, and what Leia has offered to her over the years. She also talks about her fans, and how much they mean to her and everything about the ending of the book was so much more heartbreaking given the circumstances. I was genuinely surprised by how touching her closing chapters were, in regards to her relationship with Leia and the Star Wars community as a whole.
It was a little surreal reading this so soon after both her death and her mother's, as she talks frequently about her mother in the book, as well as mentioning a couple of times, in an offhand manner, how she would like to be remembered for certain events. Perhaps it was too soon for me after her death. Not that I was ever necessarily a huge Carrie Fisher fan, but I've certainly been a Star Wars fan my whole life (I saw the original Star Wars when it was released - I was 3), so while there was never necessarily a Carrie Fisher in a my life, there has always been a Princess Leia, and it seemed to hit home a little for me. It also made me unreasonably angry that Carrie Fisher died; in a year of so many celebrity deaths, it seemed like just another death to some, but it made me angry because she overcame so much, and still had so much to do and offer to the world. So, yeah - maybe I should have put a little time in between her death and reading this book, knowing it was her last, but it seemed like the thing to do at the time. It is typically funny in that Carrie Fisher way, but equally sad given the circumstances. I fairly certain, however, that again, in that typically funny Carrie Fisher way, she would have found some way to turn her death into an appropriate epilogue to this book.
It was a little surreal reading this so soon after both her death and her mother's, as she talks frequently about her mother in the book, as well as mentioning a couple of times, in an offhand manner, how she would like to be remembered for certain events. Perhaps it was too soon for me after her death. Not that I was ever necessarily a huge Carrie Fisher fan, but I've certainly been a Star Wars fan my whole life (I saw the original Star Wars when it was released - I was 3), so while there was never necessarily a Carrie Fisher in a my life, there has always been a Princess Leia, and it seemed to hit home a little for me. It also made me unreasonably angry that Carrie Fisher died; in a year of so many celebrity deaths, it seemed like just another death to some, but it made me angry because she overcame so much, and still had so much to do and offer to the world. So, yeah - maybe I should have put a little time in between her death and reading this book, knowing it was her last, but it seemed like the thing to do at the time. It is typically funny in that Carrie Fisher way, but equally sad given the circumstances. I fairly certain, however, that again, in that typically funny Carrie Fisher way, she would have found some way to turn her death into an appropriate epilogue to this book.
Andy K (10821 KP) rated Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016) in Movies
Feb 3, 2018
Andy K (10821 KP) rated a video of Movies are the shiz! in Orbs
Apr 23, 2018
Happy tears
I think I could watch this every day.
Carrie Fisher was such a wonderful talent and larger-than-life personality. The world is just not the same without her.
I sure wish I was able to meet her, hug her and tell her she inspired a generation of strong women!
Carrie Fisher was such a wonderful talent and larger-than-life personality. The world is just not the same without her.
I sure wish I was able to meet her, hug her and tell her she inspired a generation of strong women!