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Title	:	Love Is a Mix Tape
Author	:	Rob Sheffield
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	January 2nd 2007 by Crown Publishing Group (NY) (first published January 1st 2007)
Categories	:	Music. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Biography Memoir. Romance

Love Is a Mix Tape

Rob Sheffield

Hardcover | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 28785 Users | 2680 Reviews

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In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine, tells the story of his musical coming of age, and how rock music, the first love of his life, led him to his second, a girl named Renee. Rob and Renee's life together - they wed after graduate school, both became music journalists, and were married only five years when Renee died suddenly on Mother's Day, 1997 - is shared through the window of the mix tapes they obsessively compiled. There are mixes to court each other, mixes for road trips, mixes for doing the dishes, mixes for sleeping - and, eventually, mixes to mourn Rob's greatest loss. The tunes were among the great musical output of the early 1990s - Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, REM, Weezer - as well as classics by The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin and more. Mixing the skilful, tragic punch of Dave Eggers and the romantic honesty of Nick Hornby, LOVE IS A MIX TAPE is a story of lost love and the kick-you-in-the-gut energy of great pop music.

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Original Title:	Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
ISBN:	1400083028 (ISBN13: 9781400083022)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Charlottesville, Virginia(United States)

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I love how music was such a big part of Robs life; it feels like music had a greater meaning back then. Music nowadays is still importantI cant imagine my day without music, the thought itself is depressingbut I dont get the same vibe as when I read this memoir, its like people instead of air breathed music which is awesome. After this I want to receive mixed tapes.

They met when they were both twenty-three. Rob told Renee, Ill make you a mix tape!, the same thing hed told every girl he had a crush on. Except this time, it worked and Rob fell hard. Later, they planned to step on a cassette tape at their wedding ceremony, instead of a glass. Between them, they had a love for music, bound by a love for one another. Or maybe it was the other way around. Renee was a real cool hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock chick. But, the first record she record she ever

I started reading this book during the two-day buffer between the beginnings of both 2012 proper and the working year, thinking that Id have to look no farther than the other end of the couch if the story really destroyed me to the point of needing my myriad mostly-under-control-but-always-threatening-to-surface spousal fears allayed by husbandly hugs. Turns out, catching up on laundry and tidying up our soon-to-be-vacated first home ate into my reading time and I wound up finishing this about

Opening line:"The playback: late night, Brooklyn, a pot of coffee, and a chair by the window. I'm listening to a mix tape from 1993."Before I-pods and ripped CDs we all made mix tapes. I'm sure most of us over a certain age still have them safely hidden away somewhere, never quite having had the nerve to throw them out (broken cases and all) We named these tapes, gave them away to friends or lovers and assigned them different purposes. Remember the break-up tape, the I'm so infatuated with you

This is the kind of memoir I'd like to have written (albeit without the deceased wife). I've had a few conversations with friends in the last year or so about the long-lost art of the mix tape, which has been delivered a death-blow by the digital age. Burning a CD mix just isn't the same; for one, it doesn't take nearly as long to make a CD mix, which cheapens the sentiment attached to giving one to someone, especially when the hope is that the gesture and the songs themselves with make the



I really wanted to like this book, despite my mild dislike for Sheffield's writing in Rolling Stone magazine. While the story is heartbreaking -- he becomes a widower earlier than anyone should be allowed to -- I was expecting much more insight than what's provided in this slim tome (I read it in one sitting.)The story boils down to this -- music nerd from Boston meets awesome Appalachian girl who is everything he isn't. You know where the story is heading after he is instantly smitten when she