by Sara Zarr
This is a novel about first world problems: Lucy is a highly-regarded pianist who stopped playing when her grandmother died last year. Her family is in the 1% in San Francisco: mom, dad, grandfather, all manage the careers and the money, her little brother is now competing and performing. Lucy's bes...
All I can think right now is, I understand completely.Proper review to follow soon.
A Cybils book. I loved Lucy and her relationship to music, her search to find the thing to fill that gap in herself. I hated Will. I loved the way Lucy’s perceptions of her family and of herself began to change, becoming more complex and faceted. It’s one I’m still thinking about a few days after I ...
***Note: this review assumes that you've read the book.*** One sentence summary: a solid book about creative passion, but maybe not the most passionately or creatively written. So The Lucy Variations is fine. It's even, I'd say, relatively solid. It's just...nothing special. I'm not sure what it...
I found this book refreshingly different from most YA novels I have read. I liked Lucy and enjoyed following her experiences. I especially liked the way the book resolved. It was entertaining and intelligently written.
3.5/5I loved this from the moment I started it, I could relate to it so much having quit piano after playing it for 5 years and the writing was so meaningful and relatable. Though it all took a turn for the worse when it started to get creepy and uncomfortable with the potential teacher-student rela...
In the book we have Lucy who is a child prodigy for the piano. She was molded in her grandfathers image of what a successful musician should be, even though she was a small child. She loved the music, but when that became the only world she saw, she became tired of the whole competition scene. She m...
Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling.
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