The Princess Diarist

I’ve Grown Up To See My Princesses Become Generals

Happy May the Fourth, Belles & Beaus!

I have a book review for you all today as I finally finished Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist. It’s no shocker that I’m in love with Star Wars and have been since I was four. That was the year that they were celebrating the 20th anniversary and I’ve been completely in love ever since. And pretty fitting that it’s being posted on May the Fourth! Get it? May the Force and May the Fourth? Okay, maybe not.

In this book, Carrie takes us to the days when she first began acting. She stared in a movie titled Shampoo. It was after this that she auditioned for the part of Carrie for Carrie and Princess Leia Organa for Star Wars. We all know which one she ended up in by now, don’t we?

It is in great thanks to this audition with George Lucas that we received one of the most iconic women in film history. And if you don’t appreciate her reality version equally, then you just don’t understand how to love Carrie. She’s full of sass and spunk, just like Leia. She lays it down on every page of this book, giving us the history before sharing some of the pages of the diaries she kept while working on the films.

To be honest, I truly always wished that her and Harrison Ford had married – come on, I’m a hopeless romantic. Their chemistry as undeniable to me. However, I had no clue that they actually had an affair during the films. Shocking, for someone who adores Mr. Ford and truly didn’t think he was such a bad guy. I’m not saying all men who cheat are horrible, but I’m also not condoning it. But Carrie clearly states when discussing it and his divorce after the first movie, that it was not because they had been sleeping together which makes me feel a little better about her not being a homewrecker. Life experiences, y’all. You come to have a dislike for people like that, but for some reason I can’t dislike either of them because their affair wasn’t the reason the divorce happened…

But I’m digressing. Carrie takes us down the road of Carrison and how it happened as well as all the feelings she had during the movie production – including her opinions that she had a feeling the movie would be a hit. Well, Princess… I mean General Organa was right. Star Wars was a cult classic and still is today in my unpopular opinion. But I’m also a sucker for a good movie that doesn’t completely put the damsel in distress.

To be honest, I bought this on a whim because Carrie and then ended up falling in love with her as a person all over again. I fully plan on reading more of her books as soon as I can.

May the Force be with you!

XOXO,

Trula Marie