Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
 

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

by Rob Sheffield

What Is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question throughout the ages, and in the modern era, they have come up with many different answers. According to Western philosopher Pat Benatar, love is a battlefield. Her paisan Frank Sinatra would add the corollary that love is a tender trap. Love hurts. Love stinks. Love bites, love bleeds, love is the drug. The troubadours of our... (read more)

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Michele W
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communicating through music at its saddest...and funniest

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Marold
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I did not finish reading this book. It was too sad for me. If you're up for a downer, read it. It is about this guy whose wife dies suddenly and he talks abou ther and their life, but not in the endearing and upbeat way I thought. I thought he would be reflecting on their great life and how he misses her, but the whole thing is almost too tainted with sadness. Some may be able to get past it, but it was too much for me. Very depressing. I hope it was cathartic for the author, but I don't see...

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