Solsetur rated Wishful Drinking: 4 stars

Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2008, Simon & Schuster)
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life, in her first-ever memoir.
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Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2008, Simon & Schuster)
Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life, in her first-ever memoir.

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This is a very short, good story - if you watched the movie it only begins on the actual day of the assassination & with none of the elements that got the movie its R rating. I should read the original Chinese.