Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library Reader Advisory Blog: Rock Memoirs

Rock history is littered with juicy memoirs. Check out some of the best rock memoirs of all time available right here at your Community Library.

Late, Late At Night, Rick Springfield's autobiography, takes readers inside his successful life as a pop star and actor to reveal his battle with depression and insecurity.

Steven Tyler tells what it's like to be a living legend and the front man of one of the world's biggest bands including a look at the debauchery, the money, and the rehab that goes with it in the Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

For almost fifty years, Gregg Allman has been a rock legend and in My Cross to Bear, he does not hold back in describing his life from the Allman Brothers Band, to his life with Cher, to his struggles with drugs and alcohol.

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Genre: Adult Non-Fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5

"Being Mortal is about the limitations of what modern medicine can provide for people as their lives draw to a close. Gawande argues that the objective of medicine should not merely be treatment and survival; medical care should also ensure dignity in death and having control over one's final moments. He argues that instead of aggressively fighting the inescapable realities of aging, we should ask the hard questions of ourselves and our loved ones -- What makes life worth living? When should we try to extend our lives, and when should we choose a better quality of our remaining days over extending their quantity?

This book is difficult to read. Not because of the way Gawande writes -- his style is highly engaging, and he never lapses into excessively scientific jargon or overly simplistic explanations -- but because of the tough subject matter. Gawande draws on his own experiences as a doctor and peppers his book with honest and humane stories of his patients, friends, and family; the stories he tells make the book more accessible, and also more heartbreaking. (And that's not a bad thing.)

No one likes to think about their loved ones', or their own, impending mortality. But it's important to have these hard conversations, because as Gawande says, "endings matter." - Amanda

Rock Memoirs

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