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sideshowjill 's review for:
Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield
I feel like it's not easy to write about grief and bereavement. I know I avoid memoirs that revolve around the someone significant in the author's life dying because I don't want to spend 4 pages on how the author smelled his/her cologne and was then too depressed to eat for a month. That's why I avoided reading this book for so long, even though I am a fan of both mix tapes and Sheffield's music journalism. Sheffield, though, does it right. Hell yeah it's depressing as hell to read about a young wife dropping dead just a few years into a marriage, but we don't feel for Sheffield, we feel with him. In the first 3/4 of the book, Sheffield discusses his two loves - music and Renee - and the last 1/4 is the aftermath of Renee's sudden death. It was a good balance that helped the book from veering off to being too melancholy. Also, Sheffield and I have the same favorite Sleater-Kinney song.