Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
(Format for this read: Audiobook)
I have discovered that autobiographies are totally my jam.
Especially when there is plenty of dry sarcastic humor mixed in with some pretty intense emotional vulnerability.
This book was totally that.
Here is the summary:
“The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of “Hollywood in-breeding,” come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.
Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It’s an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty—Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher—homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.
Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success. Entertainment Weekly declared it “drolly hysterical” and the Los Angeles Times called it a “Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes.” This is Carrie Fisher at her best—revealing her worst. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation, and buoyant, infectious humor.”
Okay y’all I had no idea how freaking FUNNY Carrie Fisher was.
She. Is. Freaking. Hysterical.
I wish I could have seen this material in her one woman show…I bet it was phenomenal.
But also…she had all kinds of life struggles which I did know to some extent.
She addresses things like grief, heartbreak, anger and addiction with honesty…she does it in a way that tugs at your heart one minute and then the very next your laughing hysterically.
That is exactly how me and a lot of my own family members deal with hard times….dry sarcastic humor to pull you thru the pain.
I also learned some pretty interesting Hollywood tidbits (did you know she was only 19 when she filmed the first Star Wars?!?!?) so that was fun.
This is a super short listen and I highly recommend it…especially if you are a fan of hers.
(She reads it herself so you may get a little verklempt)