DAUGHTER OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA

Jacki Lyden, in my opinion NPR's best news anchor, offers a pretentious and self-pitying memoir of her childhood with a psychotic mother. If you've heard Lyden on the air, you know what she sounds like. She is practiced in reading her own copy--although author Lyden, in a misguided attempt to show off her lugubrious style, frequently trips up narrator Lyden. Y.R. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 99]