As a fan of Carrie Fisher as a person more than as an actor, I was eager to read her books since I found out that she’s written them. “Wishful Drinking”, the first of her memoirs, seemed an appropriate place to start. This book did no disappoint. Many of the oft quoted witticisms by the late, great Carrie come from this book. She is funny, but what makes her so relatable is the way she has succumbed to her pain; collapsed into her heartbreak and made her home there because she could see no other options. There is raw emotion on her jokes that ring true through the hollow parts in all of us. Her struggles were her own but her feelings about them were not unique. They are universal, and there in lies the magic of Carrie Fisher. RIP.