dorian@cutebook.club reviewed Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Review of 'Wishful Drinking'
What a delightful memoir! I was never super into Star Wars as a kid so most of my familiarity with Carrie Fisher is from social media screenshots of her great tweets. And this memoir very much fits in with the tone she cultivated on there. She was traumatized a few years prior to the book by the death of a friend, and that is very much the current that flows underneath everything she shares. She shares quite a bit about the traumatic event, and the fact that it affected her deeply, but she never dwells on it, and she always cracks a joke about it. I found myself wondering a little, are the jokes a way to avoid the weight of it? Or are they a way of dealing with it? We all suffer trauma in life, and we all deal with it in our own way. I really got …
What a delightful memoir! I was never super into Star Wars as a kid so most of my familiarity with Carrie Fisher is from social media screenshots of her great tweets. And this memoir very much fits in with the tone she cultivated on there. She was traumatized a few years prior to the book by the death of a friend, and that is very much the current that flows underneath everything she shares. She shares quite a bit about the traumatic event, and the fact that it affected her deeply, but she never dwells on it, and she always cracks a joke about it. I found myself wondering a little, are the jokes a way to avoid the weight of it? Or are they a way of dealing with it? We all suffer trauma in life, and we all deal with it in our own way. I really got the sense that Carrie was dealing with it the best she could (you bring a certain je ne sais quois of vitality when you do I think), and I walked away from this book with the lesson that I should trust myself to make it through, and to be there for my friends.
