ashleyholstrom's Reviews (1.38k)

I saw Guns N’ Roses for the first time in my life this month, so naturally I had to beef up on my GN’R factoids. This book isn’t really that, though. Duff McKagan writes about his alcohol addiction and his dances with death. He writes about how he overcame it all and has to tell himself every day that he’s an addict. Did you ever think a memoir could be a page-turner? This one is. One hundred percent. Its structure is perfect — it starts with his daughter’s 13th birthday party, then goes to his childhood, then begins the tale of Guns N’ Roses and beyond. His stories are gnarly, but he’s eloquent in telling them. He’s wise. He’s funny. He made me cry a little. It’s all I talked about while I read it, and I’ll probably continue talking about it for a while.

From The Best Books We Read in July 2016 at Book Riot.

Meh. Skimmed a lot.

Whew. Get ready to do some hard, hard work, y'all.

Danny Goldberg’s Serving the Servant is a moving reminiscence of his relationship with Kurt Cobain. The book starts out with a lot of music industry corporate mumbo-jumbo—he was Nirvana’s manager, after all—but later he begins working with Kurt more as a friend than an executive, and it gets more sincere. Earnest. Kind. Human.

We get the discovery and unraveling of a campus rape story from the victim and the rapist and a bunch of people on the outskirts. It’s a hard one to swallow, but it’s so important and so hard to read that you must read it.

From Books I've Judged by Their Covers and Loved at Book Riot.

Is your office sexist against women? You need this book. Jessica Bennett offers lots o’ tips on how to handle situations that arise at work. And she has badass feminist playlists and other ephemera sprinkled throughout.

From 13 Fabulous Feminist Audiobooks and Taking Care of Yourself with Books at Book Riot.