Fall To Pieces by Mary Forsberg Weiland – if you thought the statement she put out with her children when Scott Weiland died was brutal, read the book to find out why it honestly wasn’t. This book was so sad, but I think Mary
is amazingly strong and doing what she can to survive.

Punk Rock Dad by Jim Lindberg. This is one of my favorite books. He’s the lead singer of Pennywise. It’s not only a rocker boy autobiography, but a dad biography. I loved this book because he writes about being a punk, and
how to reconcile that with being a parent. Fuck authority, but behave! This book lead to the documentary The Other F Word, which I highly recommend.

And I Don’t Want To Live This Life by Deborah Spungen. The author was the mother of Nancy Spungen of Sid and Nancy fame. It felt to me like Nancy was an incredibly unlikeable person. So much so that her mother wrote a book about her life that made you really feel bad for her family. Maybe make your older kids read this one so they’ll scratch heroin off their rock and roll bucket lists.

Both The Expert and I agree that these three fall into the class of

I read this book las summer. Well, I listened to it to be honest. There are a few reasons this book is a GREAT choice, especially if you remember beautiful Bobbie Jean Brown from her long-standing streak on Star Search and/or her Warrant Cherry Pie video. 1. She is a down-home Louisiana girl and she is so honest about herself and her shortcomings in the book, you just feel like she’s also telling the truth about the other people. Yes, she was married to Jani Lane from Warrant for a short period of time but there is so much more to the story. Did you know she was engaged to Tommy Lee when he ran off and married Pam Anderson in Cancun after dating her for 3 days? Bobbie will tell you the real truth behind the “spin” of that marriage. 2. Bobbie had a cowriter for this book and I’m not faulting her for that because rockers and groupies are not writers and most need cowriters. No big deal. However, if you listen to the audiobook instead of reading it, you’ll LOL at her pronunciation of some of the bigger words her coauthor put into the book. And I mean, LOL. But it will only endear her to you more. This one gets 5 drumsticks and a guitar lick. Get it now.

A last-minute addition from The Expert: Sebastian Bach’s book