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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
This was a sweet, tender book about love through music, also loss and how difficult but possible it is to cope with it. It comes with mixtapes lists and I heard them all; a lot of the songs I found nice, some others were frankly mindnumbing but overall, this was a nice read.
Rob is a generation behind my music taste but it's a pretty good book. Sad at the end, but short and fun for the rest.
I really loved this.
I've been working hard at my relationship with death (it's complicated) and while this definitely made me cry, it also made me feel calm.
Just gonna make a mix for my sweetheart now...
P.S. of all the songs listed in this book, my favourite is probably Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) by Martha and the Vandellas.
I've been working hard at my relationship with death (it's complicated) and while this definitely made me cry, it also made me feel calm.
Just gonna make a mix for my sweetheart now...
P.S. of all the songs listed in this book, my favourite is probably Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) by Martha and the Vandellas.
emotional
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
Anybody who's a big fan of music and ever made a mix tape would fall in love with this book.
I remember the happy feeling I'd get when I was in high school each time I made my own beach or party mix tape, or the rush I'd feel when I gave a mix tape to my crush so he could have a listen and think what great taste in music I have. Haha!
But it's really true, isn't it? The hard times and the happy times, music is always just there in the background. A song can be just the closest thing we have to a time travel machine. One play and it transports you back to that moment, complete with sights and smells and sounds and feelings.
I've read a couple of Rob Sheffield's articles once or twice in the past, but I had no idea he lost his wife this way, and at such a young age. His words can break your heart, make you laugh and make you wish you had been a friend of Renee's, too. I loved this book. And I wish I never threw away all those mix tapes and cassette tapes and cassingles in my collection.
I remember the happy feeling I'd get when I was in high school each time I made my own beach or party mix tape, or the rush I'd feel when I gave a mix tape to my crush so he could have a listen and think what great taste in music I have. Haha!
But it's really true, isn't it? The hard times and the happy times, music is always just there in the background. A song can be just the closest thing we have to a time travel machine. One play and it transports you back to that moment, complete with sights and smells and sounds and feelings.
I've read a couple of Rob Sheffield's articles once or twice in the past, but I had no idea he lost his wife this way, and at such a young age. His words can break your heart, make you laugh and make you wish you had been a friend of Renee's, too. I loved this book. And I wish I never threw away all those mix tapes and cassette tapes and cassingles in my collection.
I do believe Rob and I would be huckleberry friends, even though I respectfully disagree about "Hey Jude." This is a beautiful book.
“This was the greatest band ever, obviously. And they didn’t live twenty years ago, or ten years ago, or five years ago. They were right now. They were ours.”
3.5/5 ⭐️ I love loving music
3.5/5 ⭐️ I love loving music
(Outdated ideas of gender aside), Love Is a Mix Tape is a beautiful tribute to how we (at least some of us) experience music inextricably and simultaneously to life and love. Rob Sheffield seems like the type of person I could have a conversation with about the fact that some songs just aren't released in the right season, and he'd get it.
I LOVED this book. I didn't want it to end. Don't be turned off that it is about his wife dying. It is a great book about living, love, and music (especially 90's music).