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title: "Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time Paperback – December 4, 2007"
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# Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time Paperback – December 4, 2007

**Brand:** rob sheffield
**Price:** € 23.00
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- **What is this?** Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time Paperback – December 4, 2007 by rob sheffield
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I cannot praise this book enough
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2023*

I would have to post a video of me singing karaoke because that is what brought the author and his wife together. Though personal stories of great joy and sadness, the book shows how authentic music transforms. Authentic coming from the artist, and authentic coming from a karaoke club. My choices have improved and the reception of my singing has improved. Great book. Great stories of music.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    It's Not Just About the Music
  

*by E***Y on Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2007*

Rob Sheffield's Love is a Mix Tape is a heart-breaking, uplifting, funny, sad and entirely human memoir about love and loss unified by Sheffield's love of music and his life-long penchant for crafting the mix tape.  Music fans born in the 60's will recognize most of the music (and understand why, for example, the eighth grade dance mix tape had to have  Free Bird and Stairway to Heaven to end the sides), but I don't think you have to know much about the music he mentions to enjoy this wonderful book because the book simply uses music as a way into his story about Renee.  Renee was his wife with whom he shared an intense love and they found love through love of music as well.  Renee died suddenly, tragically at a young age, but somehow Sheffield's engaging personality comes through so well in his writing that he makes this memoir overall an uplifting read, despite the undertones of intense sadness and loss.  The love he has for Renee (and she for him) and the love of music, Sheffield's charming, self-deprecating humor makes this a wonderful read.  I recommend this one to all, music-obsessed or not.  Enjoy.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Cassettes are Heart-Shaped Boxes
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2007*

I sat in Lulu's Beehive this morning with my coffee and banana bundt amongst a sea of laptops, a painting of ducks that looked suspiciously like a picture in my own flickr photostream, and a friend's ex-boyfriend with another girl I knew but couldn't place. While I wasn't the only one with white buds in my ears, I was the only person cracking the spine of a book. The women that kept walking into the cafe were all cleavage and caffeine and cigarettes and a welcome distraction from the chapters about grief in this love letter to music and marriage and life. I kept catching myself staring too long at these ladies and thought, either I need to get laid or get loved.Probably both.I kind of hate Rob Sheffield for making me feel like all the relationships I've had in the past have been inadequate. I have never loved anyone like he loved his Renee. He doesn't even hide the feelings he had for her in ebullient metaphor or shlocky hyperbole. He just tells it like it is and it is wonderful and amazing and way shorter than it had any right to be. While I did blow through the chapters focused on his loss and his dealing (or not dealing) because I don't quite have the emotional armor right now to handle more mourning, it's a beautiful love story all explained in terms I totally get--song lyrics and beats and all the feelings and emotions that we associate with music.There's probably a mix tape of my own that will come out of this that includes "Symptom Finger" by the Faint, "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" by The Arcade Fire, "Mushaboom (Postal Service Remix)" by Feist, "One More Hour" by Sleater-Kinney, "Keeping You Alive" by The Gossip, "Misread" by Kings of Convenience, and "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" by Beck, almost all of which acted as my soundtrack this morning. Somehow, I don't own nor don't think I have ever even heard "One More Hour" by Sleater-Kinney and it is the one song he goes into detail about in the book that I want to know everything about. I can imagine the track in my head by his description. I can hear Carrie and Corin going back and forth. I've already attached an emotional response to it. I will love it. Even if I was deaf, I would love it.Sheffield goes into great detail about the significance of Nirvana on his life and, in particular, "Heart-Shaped Box". I decided while reading that I'd add Joe Hill's (Stephen King's son) recent debut novel of the same name to my queue. While reading, I aped a line of his that he stole from some outfit a member of Pavement was wearing for a twitter message. I took down quotes, one for me that's a truth I'm going to keep for myself about love and loss and fear and the real agreement that people make to each other when they go into a commitment like marriage and one for you:"Most mix tapes are CDs now, yet people still call them mix tapes."There's a reason for that. I leave it to you to figure out why.

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