TOW #8 "Love is a Mix Tape" (IRB- 2nd half)

                The more I read of Love is a Mix Tape, the more I realized it was less about Rob Sheffield’s time with his currently deceased wife, Renée, and more about the music in his life in general. He tells stories that helped shape who he is now. The music he had access to played a huge part, and he is kind enough to tell us exactly what that music was. He uses his ethos as a Rolling Stone editor and lover of all things music to keep us readers interested in what song he will mention next, and what it means to him. Sheffield definitely uses his own advice from previous chapters about when and how to use a song at the right time. There are few things more unsettling than a misused tune. He has, in his own way, created a soundtrack to his own life. The amount of dedication he has to his love of music is great itself and the book was a great reflection of that. The addition of adding the list of songs at the beginning of each chapter, arranged in a way that it looks as if they were taken directly from the back of his mix tapes, added to the experience of learning about Sheffield’s life and the music in it.