Food review

The Boy is going to help me review a new restaurant. Photos may be forthcoming. As well as some free sushi.

'Love is a Mix Tape'

The above is the title of a memoir that just came out that I think I want to read, so i'm making note of it now, because often, a book comes out that I want to read and then I forget about it and then I can't find anything good to read, and that's always a bummer. It's called Love is A Mix Tape. It's by a music writer who met his wife in grad school and suddenly had to cope with her untimely death.

From Booklist: Rob Shffield was a "shy, skinny, Irish Catholic geek from Boston" when he first met Renee. Southern born and bred, "she was warm and loud and impulsive." They had nothing in common except a love of music. Since he made music tapes for all occasions, he and Renee listened together, shared tapes, and though never formally planning to, married. On May 11, 1997, everything changed. He was in the kitchen making lunch. Suddenly, she collapsed, dying instantly of a pulmonary embolism. Devastated, he quickly realized that he couldn't listen to certain songs again, and that life as he knew it would never be the same. Fun and funny, moving and unbearably sad, Sheffield's account at its quirkiest, and because of his penchant for lists, is reminiscent of Nick Hornby's novel High Fidelity (1995). Anyone who loves music and appreciates the unspoken ways that music can bring people together will respond warmly to this gentle, bittersweet reflection on love won and love irrevocably lost.