My Name Is Barbra

My late mother adored Barbra Streisand so I read this book in her memory. Or rather, I skimmed through it, pausing when Babs talked about a movie I liked or an interesting affair. The memoir should have been half as long, but that would have required that La Streisand relinquish some control. Which, as demonstrated repeatedly, she does not do. I think the most telling anecdote in the whole book is when she rewrites several of Stephen Sondheim's lyrics for an album. Stephen F*cking Sondheim! Only the greatest Broadway composer and lyricist of the 20th century!

Recommended if you want to read about hundreds of other times she was right and other people were wrong, design and fashion described in excruciating detail, and letters from famous people praising her to the rafters.