A review by mooncrab
Love Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield

4.0

Super sweet and sad. Renée would love this book and the way her husband immortalizes her in these pages. The author writes with vulnerability & paints his love as a fun, sensitive, honest, smart, deeply interesting ray of sunshine. He made it easy to really feel love for her too, and subsequently the loss of her. Sheffield uses humour at just the right time which helped to sustain emotional energy for me lol. Anchoring the story through mixtapes from Sheffield’s life is a really engaging aspect of the book, and it’s relatable to anyone who intuitively connects music to memories. Music is so powerful and this is a book that reminds us of the sheer magic of it. I also loved how technology grew with time, and how much of a real period piece this book is. It’s a special story and a very telling part of history.