How the Mistakes Were Made, (Paperback)

from mcelhra

Laura Loss was in her brother's punk rock band, Second Class Citizens (SCC), in the early 1980s. Unfortunately, tragedy struck the band and they broke up. It's now the early 1990s and Laura is living in Seattle working as a barista in a coffee shop and playing bass in a little band called Cooler ...

from johnluiz

A great story about a woman, Laura Loss, who plays a pivotal role in two bands at the forefront of two major movements in rock history - hardcore punk and Seattle grunge. MacMahon does a great job of giving an insider's look at the music scene. The main story is about how Laura hooks up with two ...

from grumpydan

The novel is the story of the rise and ultimate demise of the fictional grunge band called the Mistakes. We see it through the eyes of Laura Loss, who in the 80's was in a successful band in with her brother. Now in the 90's, she is a barrister in a coffee shop and meet two best friends who convi...

from ForeignCircus

This wonderful book tells the tale of Laura Loss who grew up in the punk rock scene in the 1980s then lost it all when that scene turned on her brother and their band. Now working in a coffee shop in Seattle and still playing music, she meets two young musicians in Montana and sees a spark. When ...

from Moppette

I was excited to read How The Mistakes Were Made by Tyler McMahon because it chronicals the hardcore punk and grunge scene through a fictionalized female perspective. Halfway through the book it started going slow and I felt that though the grunge group of the book, The Mistakes, first single was...