Dear Nancy,

I just read your post on this Thread this morning, and I cannot help but express that I agree with you wholeheartedly. I will always, always wish that he had stayed with his first Wife forever!

HI, Tina i just read your book it was great! It was sad though I cried when I read stuff about how frank was treated.
ciao
Melissa

[Nancy]

<< Frank was cut off the air, perhaps at Tina's prompting. >>

Not true.

Hi nancy sorry I didnt understand what you wrote did I offend you I was just wodnering what you meant by frank was cut off the air . I am 17 and maybe I dont understand the lingo? Please reply
ciao
Melissa

I feel really bad I didnt mean that he was treated bad by you guys(his family) I was just talking about how tina described the way that Barbara treated him. That was what made me cry. Ijust wanted to say I read your book and I loved it!
anyways please reply
ciao
melissa

[Nancy]

My post had nothing to do with yours. I was addressing what John wrote
when he started this thread. That is his quote in my post.

[Barry]

Hi Nancy
Tina's book was beautifully and seriously written I thought.
It must be a way of setting the record straight...once and for all,
together with being able to let off a bit of "personal" steam to
get some heat out of the system.
It made me think that Tina has class.
Frank always admired class in a person I seem to remember.
Barry.

[Barry]

PS/
Amazon have posted my "California Girl" CD off.....
so it's in the air.........
" Fly me your CD & let me lay it on my ears.
Let me know what music sounds - are around for
the current years"
Baz.

thanks Nancy ,sorry I was confused. You are so cool to come on this site and interact with yours and Frank's fans!! I told my friends I talked to Nancy Sinatra on the net and they were so impressed they started all singing "these boots are made for walking" hehehehe Plus you are so lucky to have the best song in the world named after you!

ciao
Melissa

Nancy, I hope I didn't cause any pain with my guess that Tina might have been behind having Frank cut off the air during his talk at the awards show. In her book, she was clearly upset that, in her mind, her dad did not seem to be himself, so I made a reckless guess that maybe she was behind it. Sorry. I have also read your book, An American Legend, and enjoyed that very much.

Best,
John Elvin

I read the book and it's just some heartbreaking stuff.
Editorially, Tina was indeed one sided, but that's the way it is, it's her story anyway and after the entire debacle, she owes nothing to anyone.
Though I'm sure Barbara Marx has a differing opinion on stuff (not that she'd ever knowingly enter that arena where the truth will kick her ass), it's clear to see what a foul degenerate woman she is.
A hayseed turned 'showgirl', turned professional wife, honor and passion and love were clearly not her goals, not now, not then.
She could use some shame on her head.
We've all seen someone like her in our own lives and lived simular arrangements. We're just allowed to be more vocal about it, because we're not public people. This family didn't have such a luxury.

Speak of 'family', I hope Tina reads this and receives my thanks for sharing this overview with us. I knew unpleasant things were happening in those last years and it was very frustrating to hear the bits and pieces.
Thanks for putting the pieces together and I'm not ashamed to say I want to know more and though the facts are hurtful, I don't want to see her get off easy and continue to walk the world with the charm school smile on her just so stretched face. Keep the story coming.
The stuff that's missing is obvious and I'd like to see how the last few years have played out as well.
She's still got a bill to pay, in my not so humble or particularly sane opinion.
A sequel? Probably not, but Nancy can share her stories though! Frankie? Vine?
Thank you, again- Chris

After just discovering this web site yesterday I signed the guest book with some comments about how much I liked Tina's book. I now realize this is the appropriate forum for it.

I have been a Frank Sinatra fan since I was sixteen years old, as I said in the guest book. I have just finished reading Tina's book and just want to say that it absorbed me the entire time until I had it read, and then I wished there would have been more. I feel like some others here do. I want to hear more about the people involved, after Frank's death. Like what it has been like for you all now after these years without him. And I was curious about whether Barbara has shown any signs of having suffered yet in her life....it is bound to happen eventually!!!!!

Like I said in my guestbook comments, Tina, the ten dimes and the dog biscuit made me cry.

It was such an interesting story, the life you kids led, being able to crawl through tables at Art Linkletter's house on Halloween, and ride a train around the yard at Walt Disney's house.

You did a good job of describing something difficult to put into words when you made me understand how Frank's charisma was so large, his presense so profound that his absences were that much more significant and hard to bear.

I thought you were more than gracious when writing about all the people in the book, even Barbara (I would not have been so gracious). What you said about Ava kneeling down to greet you, and about Mia, how she didn't just walk into a room, she danced in.

There are pieces of your story that will resonate in my mind for a long time. How your mother told your father to button his coat, it was drizzling. How he sat looking at the vivid green of a golf course on T.V. because he liked the color. The smell of his bath robe.

I have not read any books yet by others about your dad, but plan to now. Thank you for the precious gift to us.

[Adam]

Welcome to the forum Kim!!

May i suggest you post a quick 'hello' in the 'Introductions' section , that way more of our members will see you.

And an excellent review, unfortunately, i still have not read the book.

But i am leaning more and more towards making the purchase.

Adam

Beautiful post, Kim, you described very well the magic that makes the book hard to put down. Nancy has also written a couple of books, An American Legend is a big book loaded with photos.

Adam, the pocket book edition of Tina's book is only a few dollars and it has many small b&w photos.

I too loved this book.

There are many people in the situation where the relationship between a daughter and her father's new wife are not good.
It is sad that such a thing has to happen, because all people involved suffer one way or another.

I do believe the book was more than that.
Tina clearly demonstrates that she respects some of her father's pas wives, and in some cases found very good friendships. In the case of Brabara however, there was not a good relationship at all.

I feel that Tina cries out in this book, yelling at the top of her voice "You may have heard all kinds of things, but this is my side of the story, and how it has affected my loved ones"

Great book Tina, I will be sure to buy the others I have heard about.

Amore

I am so happy because also I am now reading Tina´s book. It was hard to get it to my hands, because you can´t easilly find it here in Finland. But when my mother went to Hong Kong (work trip) she was lucky to find a little bookshop where the salesman
said: oh yes yes! We have that book.. after my mother asked it.
I was so happy that she found it. The book really gives a new kind and very interesting point of view about Frank´s life. Also the many many photos are very touching. Thank you Tina.

[steffen]

yes, a terriffic book. i purchased the original english version, to make sure to read tinas very own words.

an idea :
a sequel, about the big times, the good memories, the sunshine days, maybe with all three siblings in collaboration.

Hi Tina, I just wanted to say, I finished My Father's Daughter at 3:30AM... this morning - I could not put it down.
It was a wonderful tribute from you to your father and the rest of the family. It gave all of us an "insider's" view to the Sinatra family must have been like - warts and all. I never had an opportunity to meet you or your father, but, I must confess I truly admire your willingness to write such a candid biography.
I think it would have made your father very proud.
My heart goes out to you and your family - I know his absence has left a great "void" in your lives. I have yet to lose my own father and I am truly greatful for that; however, as I was reading "My Father's Daughter"... I couldn't help but think about what it would be like to lose my own father. I just can't imagine what your family has gone through in the last few years. I can only hope I can do it with as much dignity as you, Nancy and Frankie have.
God Bless You... Jana

[DanaDuffy]

I just purchased the paperback edition of Tina's book this week (I already have a hardback copy, but I needed a "reading" copy). I've been reading it every chance I get...In bed, at stop lights, lunch breaks, smoke breaks, ect.

This morning, I found the first part of the book ripped apart. A few months ago we discovered that our cat, Sylvester, likes to eat paper. He's never eaten a book before though. At least he has good 'taste.'

Off to the bookstore I go (AGAIN)....

Dana, I hope your cat doesn't move on to hardcover books.

John Elvin