The Princess Diarist

The Princess Diarist

2016 • 273 pages

Ratings139

Average rating3.7

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Carrie has an amazing way with words that I don't know how to describe. She's hysterically funny and devastatingly honest at the same time. Her affair with Harrison was depressing and lackluster, and something that affected her a great deal at the time. Her diaries from that time were full of pain and confusion that broke my heart and made me laugh all at once. The way she talked about her fame too was both sad and funny. Carrie was expected to be as perfect and gorgeous now as she was in her metal bikini days, and it's depressing. But Carrie is unapologetically critical of that and honest about how stupid that is. Carrie, completely separate from Leia, was an amazing human being all on her own. It's sad that she had to spend most of her life convincing herself of that.

March 5, 2017