read for Popsugar 2018 challenge: a favorite prompt from 2017: a book written by someone you admire

I remember the first time as a kid looking up to see which celebrities shared my birthday. The only name I recognized: Carrie Fisher. I've always held her in a special place in my heart ever since. This book was a delight to listen to. I hadn't really realized just how young she was during the first Star Wars. Forty years later, she can still reflect on what it was like to be so young and naive about herself and the world, and tell a really compelling story about this time in her life. I loved the addition of the diary entries (narrated beautifully by her daughter, Billie Lourd). They were really beautifully written for a 19 year old, but they were also so obviously written by a young girl confused about life and love. I'm so deeply endeared by this book, and it was really heartbreaking anytime she alluded to her dying in the future. I'm certainly looking at this book with rose tinted nostalgia, but I did enjoy it. She's so funny, and I can't wait to read her other works.