A review by robinsbooks
Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie by Carly Simon
3.0
Like others have said, this is more about Carly than Jackie but that was OK with me. I wasn't surprised as Jackie O was known to keep her cards close to her chest and I wouldn't have respected Carly had she spilled all of the tea about Jackie.
That all being said, I did find this fairly interesting as it almost seemed to pick up where Simon's memoir, Boys in the Trees, left off, occasionally talking about her marriage to Jim Hart and also referring to some of her past drug use and her neurotic tendencies. I wish more photos would have been included (surely Carly has some personal snapshots squirreled away somewhere) but I guess that's why Google was invented.
If you are a Carly Simon fan and want to read more about her life, pick this up but don't expect an intimate report about Jackie.
(BTW, I recently learned that Jim Hart wrote a memoir [b:Lucky Jim|32445593|Lucky Jim|James Hart|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1475875907l/32445593._SY75_.jpg|53032372]and I am curious to get his side of the story about his marriage to Simon.)
That all being said, I did find this fairly interesting as it almost seemed to pick up where Simon's memoir, Boys in the Trees, left off, occasionally talking about her marriage to Jim Hart and also referring to some of her past drug use and her neurotic tendencies. I wish more photos would have been included (surely Carly has some personal snapshots squirreled away somewhere) but I guess that's why Google was invented.
If you are a Carly Simon fan and want to read more about her life, pick this up but don't expect an intimate report about Jackie.
(BTW, I recently learned that Jim Hart wrote a memoir [b:Lucky Jim|32445593|Lucky Jim|James Hart|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1475875907l/32445593._SY75_.jpg|53032372]and I am curious to get his side of the story about his marriage to Simon.)