Life, death, music
Music, as the cliché goes, is the soundtrack to our lives. Specific songs are capable of evoking an almost tangible feeling of time and place, unpacking, note by note, the things that meant the most to us when we first heard them. In his new book, “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time” Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield hops into a musical time machine for a walk through the songs that made up his favorite mix tapes over the years,
framing a moving story about the unexpected death of his wife and the magic of music. He’ll read from the book tonight. 7 p.m. Free. Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline. 617-566-6660.brooklinebooksmith.com [L. O.]
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