Shockaholic (UK) | 
Got this a Goodwill. I got an amazing (to me) find but you have to wait to see it 😁
Question: What are your thoughts on resale/thrift shops selling ARCs?
I enjoyed this one so much that I am tempted to listen to her other books.
4 of 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#thoughtfulthursday
1. 83°F & thunderstorms
2. Since I‘m in quarantine, everything has been about me this week. ?
3. Tagged
#7days7books
Books that changed me or had a lasting impression on me.
Wanna play @mdm139 🤪
so-soI read this Feb 8-9 and gave it 3 ⭐️. I just didn‘t enjoy it as much as I did Wishful Drinking. There is nothing wrong with Fisher‘s writing and I would even say I may be suffering a bit of a book hangover, which impacted my enjoyment of this book.
pickShockaholic completes my experience with memoirs by Carrie Fisher. I like audio because she narrates, & I appreciate the short length because some celebrity memoirs are start dragging at the end. This one is hilarious in the beginning, but a lot of it is about her relationship w/ her father & his death. She also talks about caregiving for several dying friends. Of course, it made me think of her death, I hope she had a good friend w/ her.
pickI miss her so much! This was a perfect vacation read, and another blank cover from Skyview 8.
pickIt‘s both wonderful & sad to have Carrie‘s voice in my ears. I really love how witty & funny she is as she tells her story. Another great thing is that balance of how much she cares & at the same time how few f***s she has to give. A quick, fun listen that‘s an easy recommend to anyone.
pickI listened to this and despite listening to several other of her memoirs I still never tire of hearing Carrie Fisher tell stories from her incredible life. She was always very candid and does not hold anything back in many of the anecdotes from this book either whether telling of her electroshock therapy or her complicated relationship with her father.
so-soIn my Goodreads review, Wishful Drinking was the party and Shockaholic was the hangover. Interesting at times but otherwise depressing. #audiobook
pickI really, really love Carrie Fisher, and she is funny and blunt and honest and tender in this one. The Michael Jackson part was weird, though.
Started this book today, on May the Fourth. Thought it was appropriate. This is the quote preceding the introduction, and I am crying already. #maythefourth
Rainy day coziness- a blanket, a book, and a pillow pal #lazysunday
1. Read a lot of inappropriate adult books. Don't remember any series at all.
2. I got the word funger out of a Carrie Fisher book so I choose that one as my fave of 2017.
3. No hated character. At least not one I actually read.
4. All of them. 😂👍
#tuesdaytidbits @JenlovesJT47
"I took pounds and pounds of medications that have the dual effect of causing water retention (think ocean, not lake) while also creating a craving for salad—chocolate salad."
Mental illness, memory loss, weight gain and image issues, drug addictions... Shock therapy! I'm so intrigued. I love listening to Carrie reading her book, and listening about her life experiences. I can't wait to get ahold of her other works!
pickI always love listening to Carrie Fisher, she was wonderfully off-color, smart, and kind of a smart ass. I don‘t know if I‘m just more emotional, or if it was the tone of this particular book, but I cried a lot more with this one than I did while listening to her other memoirs. 💜💜💜
Starting this one on Audible. I think this is the only book of Carrie‘s that I haven‘t read and/or listened to. She‘s always a delight. I miss her. ♥️
pickFinishing out Carrie Fisher's memoirs. Full of the wit and sadness you would expect. Interesting perspectives on Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, and Ted Kennedy (note MJ seems like only one you'd actually want to associate with). This is basically a combination of Fisher's thoughts on ECT and celebrity culture (/celebrities). I just wish I had more of her stories to read. I'll get to the novels eventually.
pickVisiting family this weekend. My niece leaves for basic training on Tuesday. And I spent last night with this cute stinker.
Listened to this on my drive. Crazy to think she's gone. I'll have to listen to her other books now too.
pick⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡ I wasn't sure what I would think of this as I hadn't read any of Carrie Fisher's books (fiction or non fiction) before now. She's so funny and honest. I love that about her. I'll definitely read her other books. This was my F selection for #LitsyAtoZ.
Just picked this short book up at the library! I loved #WishfulDrinking so I have high hopes for this one! #Shockaholic ❤️ #CarrieFisher
pickJust finished the final memoir (that I had left to read. This is the second one chronologically) by Carrie Fisher. She often references what will happen after she dies. I just about lost it. 💔 love her so much
though you‘re living for two now. Their memory lives inside you, and you feed it. You live for them now that they can‘t anymore."
Carrie Fisher on Elizabeth Taylor. If somebody wants to "love" me with jewelry, please let me know.
pickI just adore Carrie Fisher! She is so honest, authentic, & unapologetically herself. I only hope to embrace my whole self that openly some day.
#17rainbowcolours #violetorindigobooks @jess.how
After the past few days' photo challenge, I realise I have books with this colour the least. I have loads of books with red spines on my shelves!
pickAfter reading The Princess Diarist, this is the next Carrie Fisher book I got from on hold at the library. Nothing like reading backwards! Anyway, I definitely enjoyed this more than PD, and found a lot of fascinating little tidbits here. Learning about her relationships with Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, her stepfather Harry Karl and her dad Eddie Fisher gave an interesting glimpse into the life of a celebrity. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Recommended!
My copy of Shockaholic that just came in my library holds has a souvenir in it from the previous reader! Clearly someone else uses anything at hand as a bookmark, even a discarded souvenir playing card with a lobstah on it. #newenglandahforlife #maine 🦐
More books added to my TBR Mt Everest! #bookhaul #nosuchthingastoomanybooks
pickThis book was very engaging and funny and rambling too, just like I like biographies and memoirs to be! It's more of a snapshot of Fisher's life than all of it, but at 156 pages, I don't think it could be much else. I have The Princess Diarist to read soon, so am hoping for more fun and Star Wars/Harrison Ford stories to come!
While my girls watch Paw Patrol and my husband makes fajitas for dinner (lucky me) I'm going to start on this one. I read Wishful Drinking a few years ago and enjoyed it, so I'm hoping this will be good too. Carrie Fisher was such a character.
pickI really enjoyed Fisher's frank approach to some difficult topics, and the humour she wove into her recollections. The second half focusing on her friendship with Michael Jackson, and relationship with her father and Elizabeth Taylor was interesting, but I really appreciated the first part of the book, where she talked openly about her mental state and decision to try shock treatments.
pickAll three of the Carrie Fisher books I read this week came available at the same time from the library. She was just so amazing. So much she went through! So great.
pickI liked this one more than Wishful Drinking. It had more in depth stories, but less of a theme overall. I do find it interesting that most of Carrie's stories are about her parents and not herself. I'm wondering if that will be the same with Princess Diarist as well.
