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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
The author lost someone he loved. He then wrote a book about the soundtrack of their life together in a way that makes you feel like you, too, loved and lost.
Despite the obvious tear-your-heart-out sadness of it all, you still come away feeling like it was worth it, to have been given the chance to love and be loved.
Favorite Quotes
Without [Renee], I didn't want to do anything, except keep being good at Renee.
Out the window is a blur and all I can really hear is this girl's hair flapping in the wind, and maybe if we drive fast enough the universe will lose track of us and forget to stick us somewhere else.
I never planned to get married when I was only twenty-five, and I'm not sure exactly how it happened - neither of us ever officially proposed, or anything dramatic like that. It started off as a playful fantasy we talked about. Then the fantasy became a plan, the way fantasies sometimes do, and the plan became a future. It didn't hit us as the climax of anything, just the celebration of something that had already happened to us. I guess we hoped the celebration would help us understand what had happened.
Just more of that endless, useless knowledge you absorb when you're in a relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship. When the relationship's gone, you're stuck knowing all this garbage.
What do you do with kindness like that? I felt tiny beside it, and stupid for not understanding the first thing about it...It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.
No doubt people could spot me a block away and know that I had lived past my till-death-do-you-part date.
Despite the obvious tear-your-heart-out sadness of it all, you still come away feeling like it was worth it, to have been given the chance to love and be loved.
Favorite Quotes
Without [Renee], I didn't want to do anything, except keep being good at Renee.
Out the window is a blur and all I can really hear is this girl's hair flapping in the wind, and maybe if we drive fast enough the universe will lose track of us and forget to stick us somewhere else.
I never planned to get married when I was only twenty-five, and I'm not sure exactly how it happened - neither of us ever officially proposed, or anything dramatic like that. It started off as a playful fantasy we talked about. Then the fantasy became a plan, the way fantasies sometimes do, and the plan became a future. It didn't hit us as the climax of anything, just the celebration of something that had already happened to us. I guess we hoped the celebration would help us understand what had happened.
Just more of that endless, useless knowledge you absorb when you're in a relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship. When the relationship's gone, you're stuck knowing all this garbage.
What do you do with kindness like that? I felt tiny beside it, and stupid for not understanding the first thing about it...It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.
No doubt people could spot me a block away and know that I had lived past my till-death-do-you-part date.
Pretty good book. Reminded me of High Fidelity (the movie) in that the story was told through pop music. A bittersweet love story, so sad I almost wish I hadn't read it.
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief
This book restored my faith in memoirs. The last few I have read were awful. This book...I couldn't stop reading it. I spent most of this past weekend buried in it, and was sort of disappointed when I finished it. I wanted it to keep going...
The author is a music journalist, and I've seen him on several VH1 shows where they are talking about loving the '80s or other compilation type music shows. I like music. I like books. I made mix tapes. I have experienced love, life, and loss. This was a book for me. Many, many of the music references are from the indie rock, and the author and I are close to the same age. He makes a few hair band references and chronicles musical genres/decades that I can easily follow. I smiled, I laughed, and I cried.
One of the greatest books I've read. Does a much better job of incorporating nostalgia than Ready Player One, and definitely eked some tears out of me a few times.
As a mix tape queen, I loved how each chapter started with the contents of an actual mix tape. My favorite one? The one full of cheesy ass early 90s top 40. Oh yeah... Such a heartbreaking story, but such a wonderful way of paying tribute to his late wife. If you're nutso about mix tapes and totally knew what Rob from High Fidelity was talking about when planning a playlist for a mix tape, you'll love this book.
I really wanted to love love this book. It definitely made me nostalgic for my childhood and teenage years. His ode to the movie The Cutting Edge made my heart melt. I also had to smile at each mention of songs that brought back memories for me. The end of the book, the last thoughts the author leaves you with were beautifully written. I think somehow I just didn’t totally connect to the book on a deeper level. Maybe I was expecting he ugly crying through at least half the book and I didn’t find myself doing so.
I read this on my kindle and the image of each mixed tape cover to introduce a new chapter was impossible to read. Which kind of blew the point of the book. I may attempt to skim over them the next time I am at a book store. This book is just odd.
why? on a books about music list, has lifidelity style, many stars and frank meeuwsen ranked in 5 stars
https://www.amazon.nl/Love-Mix-Tape-Listened-English-ebook/dp/B000N2HCMY
https://www.amazon.nl/Love-Mix-Tape-Listened-English-ebook/dp/B000N2HCMY