by Ann Napolitano

The story had a very slow, rather dull start. I found myself at first disliking Julia and pitying William; soon I was finding Julia to be a little too much like myself. Too bad she was portrayed as a semi-monster by the end. Noteworthy: A family of six Italians, and nobody cooks?? All the sisterly love was very wearing; reading about extremely close families like this always leaves me feeling smothered. These were definitely storybook people in storybook relationships. By the end, I was just skimming; I didn’t care, and did not enjoy the story. I was glad when I was finally free.

by Mike Campbell

Great to spend some time with Mike, Tom, Benmont, Howie, and Stan, and all the stars they crossed paths with.

It always warms my heart to see rock stars married to the same person for decades.

I didn’t realize Campbell wrote “Boys of Summer”. He wrote the music and played most of the instruments on it. That made him richer than being in the Heartbreakers.

Particularly great Bob Dylan anecdotes.

Tragic how drugs took Howie’s life and then Tom’s. Glad that Benmont recovered from addiction.