Princess Leia tells all!

Long ago in a galaxy far far away two Hollywood icons decided to marry and procreate and the product of their union was none other than the icon herself, Carrie Fisher.
In "Wishful Drinking" Carrie shares with us what it's like to grow up as an ultimate Hollywood child (being the daughter Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds). She describes her famous parents as the Jennifer Aniston & Brad Pitt of their era with Elizabeth Taylor playing Angelina Jolie. Carrie gives us a glimpse of what it’s like to grow up in Hollywood and believe me it isn’t pretty. With that said the entire undertone of the book is quite funny and entertaining so much that I laughed till I cried. Even though she seemed to have it all by being born into Hollywood royalty not to mention adored by Star wars fans, I still felt sorry for Carrie living in this fast paced atmosphere. She reveals her life from the inside; the scandals, the marriages and remarriages of each of her parents and her own marriage to Paul Simon as well as her battle with addiction and mental illness. Her glib style objectifies her painful reality and allows the reader to grasp some of her loneliness and despair while laughing at it. She even manages to find humor in her electroshock therapy.

There is a disturbing but knee-slapping moment in the book in which Fisher describes how someone told her that she is actually in the "Abnormal Psychology" textbook. "Obviously, my family is so proud," she writes. "I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?" It's funny, until she reveals that the picture they use of her for the textbook is none other than Princess Leia with her hair in side buns. (Hey at least it wasn’t one of her in that bikini chained up next to Jabba the Hut!) The book almost feels as if you are having a conversation with Carrie herself, the downside to this is that it’s way too short and leaves you wanting and asking for more. The part in the book that made me the saddest is that she tells her younger friends that one day they’ll be somewhere and look up at the television set and there will be a picture of Princess Leia with two dates underneath and they’ll say "awww ---she said that would happen." What makes it sad is that it will probably happen, however Fisher is smart enough to realize that she and Princess Leia are forever intertwined and she has learned to find it amusing. I recommend this to everyone, because let’s face it, in this day and age we’re all a little nuts and it helps to have someone a little nuttier than we are to laugh at.