Details revealed of Courtney Love book

Courtney Love will publish a combination of diary and scrapbook called Dirty Blonde on October 31st, and Rolling Stone took an advance peek at the book. In one recent entry written after Love kicked a longtime drug problem in rehab, the former Hole singer wrote, "I feel ready for a brand new life now. I've scrubbed clean the mud and rags of 2000-01-02-03-04 & 05. Five years of hell. Everything runs in seven-year cycles. Well I'm definitely out of my darkness now."

Love began assembling the book while working on her second solo album, titled How Dirty Girls Get Clean. There is no release date yet for the CD.

The book includes photos of Love in the studio with producer Linda Perry and playing guitar with occasional songwriting partner Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins. Lyrics of several new songs are also sprinkled throughout the pages.

The book also contains collages, reports from school and juvenile hall, numerous journal entries and plenty of photos from Love's life, including never-before-seen pictures of Frances Bean Cobain, Love's daughter with late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.

Love also offers insights into her marriage to Cobain and her feelings 12 years after his death, writing in one entry, "I miss being loved by a husband very much...I really miss him."