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“It’s sort of like glowing in your own dark.”

January 18, 2017 by crystalclear 7 Comments

In honor of the late Carrie Fisher, I picked up her audiobook of Wishful Drinking.  This was written/performed about 8 years ago after Ms. Fisher went through electroconvulsive therapy, with a side effect of the therapy affecting her memories.  So she wrote the show/book to help her remember.  I highly recommend the audiobook version, as Carrie reads/performs her own work. We tend to skip around in time a lot, which I suppose is understandable given her condition. Before I picked this up I really had […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, audiobook, autobiography, carrie fisher, wishful drinking

Goodnight, Sweet Princess …

January 3, 2017 by xoxoxoe 5 Comments

I happened to be at the Disney park that has franchised most of the Star Wars experience last week when I heard about Carrie Fisher’s passing. Talk about bittersweet, as we saw posters of Princess Leia, from all of her franchise appearances, around the park. I first saw Star Wars on its first release in 1977, and loved her spunky take on the princess, although I have to admit my young teen eyes and heart were mostly focused on the dreamy Luke Skywalker. But I have enjoyed Carrie Fisher […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: #memoir, autobiography, Books, carrie fisher, cbr9, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, star wars, the princess diarist, wishful drinking

Thank you to our most lovely exchange coordinator, faintingviolet, for my new books :D

December 9, 2016 by narfna 5 Comments

I came home from a poop day at work to a book exchange package from Katie (faintingviolet) and it made my day. I legit squealed when I opened the first book and saw Wishful Drinking. And I’ve been meaning to read Austenland and start Sandman for yearrrrs. (Although, I will confess that I’m actually super intimidated to start Sandman.) Thank you so much, Katie! And thank you for organizing this beautimous tradition.

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: austenland, Book Exchange, carrie fisher, faintingviolet, narfna, Neil Gaiman, preludes & nocturnes, Sandman, Shannon Hale, wishful drinking

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