Sheffield writes about the loneliness of the young widower, and how finding another one in the wild feels special because who else can really understand what you’re going through.
That was maybe foolish – how do you make sense of something like this – but I can say that it helped immensely to know that what I’m feeling and experiencing has been felt and experienced by someone else. I thought reading Sheffield’s story might help me make sense of what’s going on in my life. At that point the book becomes about how he dealt with her death, and what his life looked like in the months and years that followed. What drew me to want to read this book first is that Renée died suddenly when Sheffield was in his thirties. The majority of the book is about his relationship with his wife, Renée. Published in 2007, Love is a Mix Tape is ostensibly a tour of Sheffield’s life through the lens of mixtapes he’s made over the years. Reading her review made me want to read the book myself, so I thought that would be a good place to start. I remembered Jennie reading it and telling me how good it was, but I hadn’t read her review of it. One of those reviews was for Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield. I’m pretty pleased to be doing it.Ī few days after Jennie died, Mswas shared a tribute to her on Facebook that included links to some of Jennie’s past CBR reviews. What better way to connect then to read books that she loved? I signed up for this year’s Cannonball Read as a means to getting to know Jennie better. Books that she read or books that she intended to read and never got the chance to. I’m still surrounded by so much of her in this apartment, and a majority of it is books. I want to stay connected to her in a tangible way. The idea that there is a finite amount of Jennie in the world is still really hard to deal with. I’ve spent the past six months trying to find ways to get More Jennie. I have an English degree, so I did plenty of reading in school maybe I just burned myself out on it. I’ve been reading comics since I was a kid and I’ve read I don’t know how many of those, but the list of prose books, fiction or non-fiction, that I’ve read since I got out of an academic setting is pretty short. Well, I should clarify: I’ve never been a great prose reader. I can’t remember a time in all the years that we were together when she wasn’t reading at least two or three books at once.
To say that Jennie was an avid reader would be an understatement. Her name was Jennie Baxla, and she reviewed books under the username baxlala. If you’ve been a Cannonballer or a Pajiban for a while you probably know my wife.
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