PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksThe experience of reading My Name Is Barbra is delightful; Barbra is good company. The book is written in her own distinct and distinctly Brooklyn syntax ... For a performer with such a distinct personal vision, she was oddly adaptable to cultural trends. Yet too often, Streisand loses sight of the type of work that her talents can best illuminate ... As the 1980s roll on into the 1990s, the picture of Streisand’s life becomes more cloistered. The references in her account become repetitive ... Amusing as this is, the book loses its hold on the reader as Streisand floats far from the ground.
