Today is a good day for a love story isn’t it. I started reading Love is Mixed Tape last night and I’m thoroughly enjoy it. Laura you are right, so readable. It’s a fast read too as I’m already half way through it.
Rob Sheffield writes about his life and love of his life, Renée, using songs from his collection of mix tapes as reference points. I feel as if I’ve got a soundtrack playing while reading this book. R.E.M, Morrissey, Boy George, Blondie, Led Zeppelin, it’s all in here.
“I believe that when you are making a mix, you’re making history. You ransack the vaults, you haul off all the junk you can carry, and you rewire all your ill-gotten loot into something new. You go through an artist’s entire career, zero in on that one moment that makes you want to jump and dance and smoke bats and bite the heads off drugs. And then you play that one moment over and over. A mix tape steals these moments from all over the musical cosmos, and splices them into a whole new groove.”
All you music lovers can probably relate to that right? Anyway, I can’t wait to read more of this love story with a box of chocolates next to me of course. heh. And, I see some of you are also reading some good love stories/poems lately, Danielle, Jenclair, Litlove and Patricia. Anyone else read a good love story today?
I’ll be digging into Colette’ s Cheri and Joanne Harris’s Chocolat later! Love is a Mixed Tape sounds like fun! Hope you get some chocolates!
No love story unless you count A Room with a View. 🙂
“You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.”
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Oh! This one has been high up on my list, but I can’t get a library hold on it and I refuse to purchase hardcovers. Why? Because they are pricy and I much prefer trade paperbacks. I guess I’ll just have to be patient….
Danielle – I have one Colette book that’s been sitting on my shelves for too long. I need to bump it up. And, I did get some chocolates so all is good in bookgirl land 🙂
Matt – Dare I admit that I’ve only seen the film?! Love the quote. Sounds like you had a wonderful day too 🙂
Sheri – I have a hard time buying hardbacks too. I prefer the trade paperbacks, easy to carry and hold and of course a bit easier on the pocketbook.
Not on VD, but I just read a short, sappy romance book the other day. Yesterday, I finished Full Moon (2nd Harry Dresden book).. fairly anti-valentines.
I also must recommend Calvin Trillin’s ‘About Alice’, a beautiful love letter to Trillin’s wife who passed away in 2001. Cannot say enough good things about it. I get weepy every time I read it (it’s a very short book; an essay, really).
I’m right in the middle of The Italian, which is a love story of sorts, but in an overblown and youthfully impassioned sort of way. At the moment the Spanish Inquisition has come between the lovers, which is quite a barrier! I still say Anne Tyler’s The Accidental Tourist is one of the best love stories I’ve ever read.
SciFiChick – I have the Harry Dresden (#1) book on my shelves thanks to your recommendation. I will definitely let you know how that goes 🙂
Patricia – I heard an interview on NPR w/Calvin Trillin and it was so touching. I’m glad to hear the book is wonderful. Can’t wait to read it.
Litlove – The Italian sounds very good. I like overblown and impassioned 🙂 I’ve read several Anne Tyler novels which I’ve greatly enjoyed but not The Accidental Tourist. Another one for the list!
I’m into Love in Excess, which is great. Romantic intrigue all over the place, all dressed in 18th-century-English. Trilby is silly but harmless.
I recommend you get a copy of Room with a View — if you loved the movie (and the soundtrack, isn’t it great?), you will adore the novel.
LK – Ooh I like the sound of that too. Intrigue and excess 🙂 I did love the movie and soundtrack to Room with a View. Sadly I have the soundtrack on tape! I need to convert that to an mp3 file.
“About Alice” by Calvin Trillin, does it qualify as a love story in the classical sense?
It definitely makes me believe in love again, being about to really find someone who you love even after they die. I cried a little.
Dark Orpheus – I see what you mean. I guess it’s more a tribute to love huh?
I finished “Love Is A Mix Tape” about two weeks ago and loved it. Sounds like you enjoyed it as much as I did. I kept finding myself looking up music to play as I read along.
Anne – I finished it on Friday and really liked it. I think in particular because the writer and I are around the same age so I could reminisce about some of my favorite songs from the 90s – ha,ha.