This is most of my "to review" stack, the "to read" stack continues with other non-review books.

This is generally organized by day of release, but the 3 books on the far left are in the "released now" section that should be only on the far right.

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I harvest my nightmares and using a laser beam 4008 miles away in South Carolina, I imprint these lies and imagined scenes onto the pulped remains of organic oxygen converters. Today I sold this product to strangers in a library, where books are free anyway.

Life is strange.

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that I have picked up recently. Just have to find the time to read them!

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Oscar reading The Gruffalo

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A very brief but surprisingly moving memoir about the powerful bonds between guitarist and drummer, Eddie and Alex Van Halen. Most rock bios focus intensely on the rise, fall and redemption after massively awful drug addiction of their subjects and while there was indeed all of this included in Alex Van Halen's stunning ode to his life with his more acclaimed late brother, there was a consistent thread throughout his succinct autobiography - family.

Few memoirs by artists and musicians pay much attention or give major props to their family and the role that their parents played in their upbringing and musical endeavors, but Alex unstintingly gives credit to his parents for their musical inspirations, exhortations and celebrations of their sons excellence.

Raised by a father who was a professional clarinetist and a mother who forced the brothers to take piano lessons, Alex and Eddie Van Halen were deeply imbued with a love and understanding of music and the professional musicians world from the womb, as Alex details here. He pulls few punches about their trials and tribulations with alcohol, drugs and the wild side of a young rock musicians life, and the payback that hits before mid-life.

Van Halen weren't seen as a very cerebral band, but Alex reveals a knowledge of philosophers (Nietzsche quotes!), classical music and avant garde artists such as William Kurelek - whose paintings adorn the cover of one of their early albums.

This memoir is a moving tribute by a man who lost a best friend and lifelong musical soul mate - his brother - and who clearly mourns Eddie's passing, while celebrating the great life that they had and the fabulous music that they created together.

One quibble with Alex's memoir is that he avoids entirely any mention of the Red Rocker, Sammy Hagar, who played a huge role in the continued success of the band after the departure of their egomaniacal frontman, David Lee Roth in the mid-80's. Sammy wrote his own memoir a decade ago that was extremely critical of the brothers for the dissolution of the band in the mid-90's while both were reeling from their separate addictions. Alex makes mention of kicking his own addiction thanks to the love of his (3rd) wife while mourning his brother's inability to do so until the addictions ravaged his body and led to Eddie's premature passing in 2020 at age 65.

I would have liked to have heard Alex's thoughts on the Van 'Hagar' interregnum in the band's career, but I understand that this was a very personal tribute to the family that raised the brothers and gave the world siblings whose music inspired legions of artists and millions of music lovers.

....And the cradle will rock.