Boys in the Trees by Carly Simon - 3 stars

[Leah]

Boys in the Trees by Carly Simon
371 pages

★★★

This the memoir of Carly Simon’s early life, pretty much spanning from a young child until her mid-30’s. And we learn two things from this book – 1) Her dad was the co-founder of Simon and Schuster and 2) She likes guys, like every guy she came across and would sleep or want to sleep with anyone who came in contact with her. Oh..also…she was married to James Taylor and made music.

This book is hard for me to rate – I found it equally annoying and intriguing and had trouble putting it down. I think Carly Simon actually writes really well but I found a chunk of the book pretty boring – there was just so much talk of every man she met and how she either screwed, wanted to screw, or the man made a move at her. The beginning of the book (her childhood) and the last one-third (marriage to James Taylor and how she came about her more popular songs. I will give her credit – she is honest and unlike many memoirs she does not use her book to talk bad about people, she uses a respectful voice throughout. To be honest, I’m not the hugest fan of Carly Simon so that may have skewed my perception a bit. A good book but may be better if you’re more of a Carly Simon enthusiast than myself.

[Ladyslott]

This woman's music is the soundtrack of my life, I just got it from the library and am really looking forward to it.