Tag Thursday – The ABC Book Challenge: P

It’s time to move another letter down the alphabet for The ABC Book Challenge!

Every couple of weeks I’ll be sharing at least one memorable book with a title beginning with the letter of the week, and one (or more) books currently on my TBR.

I’ll be ignoring any As etc at the beginning of titles

The ABC Book Challenge – P

A Memorable Book…

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

About the book

The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie.

When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved—plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a (sort-of) regular teenager.

With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher’s intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time—and what developed behind the scenes. And today, as she reprises her most iconic role for the latest Star Wars trilogy, Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candour and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.

I’m a huge Star Wars fan so I was really eager to pick this one up once I had heard about it. Carrie’s recollections were so interesting to read, and at times heartbreaking. I’d definitely recommend it to any Star Wars or Carrie fans out there….

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A Book On My TBR…

The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club by Alex Bell

About the book

It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer – tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk – but Stella really, really didn’t want that to happen, just the same.

Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands and come face-to-face with frost fairies, snow queens, outlaw hideouts, unicorns, pygmy dinosaurs and carnivorous cabbages . . .

When Stella and three other junior explorers get separated from their expedition can they cross the frozen wilderness and live to tell the tale?

I’ve heard many good things about this book, well this whole series so I’m looking forward to getting started on it!

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The Pieces Of Ourselves by Maggie Harcourt

About the book

Flora doesn’t do people”, not since the Incident that led to her leaving school midway through her GCSEs. The Incident that led to her being diagnosed with bipolar II. The Incident that left her in pieces. Until Hal arrives. He’s researching a story about a missing World War I soldier, and he wants Flora’s help. Flora used to love history before the Incident, but spending so much time with Hal is her worst nightmare. Yet as they begin to piece together the life of the missing soldier, a life of lost love, secrets and lies, Flora finds a piece of herself falling for Hal.

I’ve read three of Maggie’s books and really enjoyed them so I’m looking forward to getting to her fourth. It’s already been sitting on my shelves for several months too long!

One memorable and two to be read P books! Let me know yours in the comments and be sure to come back next week to discover my Q books!