This book gives Courtney Love haters (I’m including myself in this category) a newfound respect and attraction towards her. We see Courtney Love as this drugged out rock star who can’t keep it together, but her writings give the reader insight as to why people may think this way

Back in 2002, there was a large group of Nirvana fans who renewed their hatred for Courtney Love when she published sections of Kurt Cobain’s journals and notes. Then in 2006,Courtney Love decided that her journals and diaries were just as entertaining and published hers as well in the book entitled, “Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love.”

Before reading this anthology of Love’s writings, I already had my own set views of the female rock star. Basically she’s crazy, she ruined Kurt Cobain, and she needs to go to rehab desperately. But this is the opinion I get from the media and her infamous appearance at “Comedy Central’s Roast of Pamela Anderson.”

But while in my judgment of her, I never thought of her side of the story. And this is what publishing her diaries does. It allows people to see her more human side rather than her public image.

This book gives Courtney Love haters (I’m including myself in this category) a newfound respect and attraction towards her. We see Courtney Love as this drugged out rock star who can’t keep it together, but her writings give the reader insight as to why people may think this way.

Her entries span from her childhood stints in boarding schools and juvenile halls to the beginning of her careers, to the present day. She is witty and often very peculiar in what she writes about.

She knows who she is and makes no excuses for it. One part of this book that I found extremely interesting was everything she wrote about her daughter. The love she has for her daughter is something that I have never seen before. She sees her daughter, Frances Bean, as a gift. I have never seen a love like that. Never.

Another thing this book does for people who dislike Courtney Love is let you know that she is not like any other female musician. She doesn’t write about her breakups and heartbreaks and newfound loves. She writes about herself and her life. She writes about what is important to her and no one else.

Now one thing this book could do without, in my opinion, are all the pictures of her without clothes. You can only see her nipples so many times before you just want to tell her to put some freaking clothes on. But then again, these are her diaries and this is her life. Let her be naked if she wants to be.

Overall, I felt that this book is worthwhile to anyone. It made me not hate her. It made me think of her as human, not the person we see in the news. Courtney Love is someone who is constantly breaking the rules and always finding ways to upset people.

But, there is also this part of her that no one really gets to see. And that is the part of her who is a single parent who is still grieving the loss of her husband. She is honest and doesn’t apologize for it. Her diaries let everyone know who she is from her point of view, which in this day in age of tabloids and paparazzi something almost never seen or heard of.

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