{"id":119385,"date":"2025-03-05T18:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/05\/barbra-streisand-wins-two-awards-for-audiobook-of-memoir-my-name-is-barbra\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:01:32","slug":"barbra-streisand-wins-two-awards-for-audiobook-of-memoir-my-name-is-barbra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/05\/barbra-streisand-wins-two-awards-for-audiobook-of-memoir-my-name-is-barbra\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbra Streisand wins two awards for audiobook of memoir &#8216;My Name Is Barbra&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-05\/M_BarbraStreisandMemoir_110523.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Viking Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Barbra Streisand<\/strong> has won two awards \u2014 not for singing, but for reading.<\/p>\n<p>Her bestselling memoir,\u00a0<em>My Name Is Barbra<\/em>, was named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiopub.org\/2025audies-1#audiobookoftheyear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>audiobook of the year<\/strong><\/a> at the 2025 Audies, which are given out by the\u00a0Audio Publishers Association. Barbra narrated the hefty tome, which weighed in at just under 1,000 pages. The audiobook spans 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Streisand&#8217;s book was also named autobiography\/memoir of the year. She beat out, among others, <strong>Elton John<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Farewell Yellow Brick Road<\/em>. However, Elton didn&#8217;t narrate that particular book.<\/p>\n<p>Streisand&#8217;s win at the Audies might soften the blow of her loss at the Grammys, where she was bested in the category of\u00a0best audio book, narration and storytelling recording to\u00a0<em>Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration<\/em>\u00a0by the late President\u00a0<strong>Jimmy Carter<\/strong>, who died Dec. 29 at age 100.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viking Press Barbra Streisand has won two awards \u2014 not for singing, but for reading. 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