MixedIndependent (UK)A heifer of a read. The prose throughout is clean and unfussy, though seldom chatty. With the extra girth comes weightier expectations, and while the book obviously holds deep significance to its author – Streisand has been working on the memoir for a quarter of a century – this is rarely more profound or revealing than other far shorter celeb-penned books out this year ... The thousand-odd pages...narrate the life of a woman whose facial features could not have been more irrelevant to her gifts. Perhaps that’s ultimately the thing with My Name is Barbra: there’s no real way of translating Streisand’s captivating screen power to print. Even with 1,000 words more, I don’t think you could manage it.
