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My Rush University Medical Bookstore Chicago #bookhaul Y'all!! I'm being bad with a new credit card again, but after a painful procedure I was like- welllll uuummm YES!!! They had all kinds of crazy stuffed animal germs and diseases. Of course I chose the bookworm!! I don't know if I should post the description it's quite disturbing, lol. Most of these were on sale, except Hamilton ($20) but I figured that's a collector's item. 📚📚❤️❤️❤️

Finished late last night. I have a whole new world of music to discover thanks to ?uestlove! He feels like such an accessible artist/person through his writing. After reading this and Hunger Makes me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein I feel like devouring more music related/artist memoirs!

Was this passage meant to be so hilarious? I can't stop laughing 😂

I am a fan of Questlove and hip hop so I had high hopes for this book and it did not disappoint. A friend lent this book to me and told me after reading it that she felt that we could "be friends" with Questlove. After reading this myself, I agree with that sentiment. I have a lot of respect for him and his work and loved hearing about his influences and thoughts on music, politics and culture.

Excited to start this!

Just a delight—Questlove is just a charming, humble, thoughtful human being. I've loved the Roots for a long time. Questlove keeps it light while going deep at the same time—a real feat. His philosophical musings about the states of pop culture, hip-hop, and music criticism were intelligent and spot on. Loved it!

Well it only took me 15 chapters/187 pages to realize that Questlove starts every chapter with a question. I like this one that kicks off chapter 13. #memoir #questlove #hiphop #music #musicmemoir

Aw man, I hate when I find misspelled words in books. Especially when the same misspelled word keeps reappearing 😖😞 (this is still an awesome book though).

It's #NonFictionNovember! 🏊🏽‍♀️🌞🇸🇬

Really enjoying this. I've known very few people who define their life by the music they were obsessed with. So many of my memories are framed by the soundtrack playing at that moment.

Really great. I don't know any song by The Roots, I'm only familiar with the album titles and Questlove and Tariq's names. I've seen Q on shows and movies and felt some strange connection to him, I always really liked him. After reading this memoir of his, I'm happy to say I still really like him. The way he describes music when he was small feels v familiar to me. And while I wasn't familiar with half of the songs/artists he mentions, it didn't..

Love that he can say something so deep and honest and then later in the same paragraph namecheck Harry Potter stuff. 💙Questlove!

Sunday Funday = Questlove on Long Beach. So excited to start this one. ☀️📖🎶⛱

This is what the walls around me will look like for most of the #24in48 this weekend - my crazy cluttered living room!
Where in the world are you reading from this weekend? My house in the burbs of Milwaukee, WI and my office a few miles away.
Have you done this RAT before? Yes! Usually I plan better and take the wknd off, though.
What book are you most looking forward to? Nothing in particular.
Where can we find you? Here!

I remember being a teenager and being ashamed of my musical tastes, at least some of them." page 41

Lunch time!!!

"...a text is not a unified thing, but a fragmentary or divisible thing, and that the reader is the one who divides it up, arbitrarily. Reading is the act that creates the pieces."