{"id":4991,"date":"2015-02-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2015-02-12T11:18:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T17:18:02","slug":"love-lucy-by-april-lindner-book-review-italy-love-goodbye-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4991","title":{"rendered":"Love, Lucy, by April Lindner (book review) – Italy, love, goodbye forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>One last summer of freedom,
\nthe beauty and glory of Florence<\/a>,
\nthe excitement of love…<\/p>\n

And then Lucy must give up her theater dreams to become a business major, or her father won’t pay for college at all! Hard choices…and Jesse back in Italy so hard to get in touch with.<\/p>\n

Read the first 2 chapters on the publisher’s website free here<\/a> as you listen to the author’s Love, Lucy<\/em>\u00a0 playlist<\/a>, and you’ll be whisked away to Florence with Lucy, love just around the corner.<\/p>\n

This modern interpretation of E.M. Forster’s classic A Room With a View<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 comes from the author of Catherine<\/em> (based on Wuthering Heights<\/em> – my review here<\/a>) and Jane<\/em><\/a> (Jane Eyre<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Could you give up true love for family demands?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Love, Lucy \/ April Lindner. Poppy, 2015.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Giving up her dream of being an actress is hard for Lucy, but giving up the young man she loves so her dad will pay for college is heartbreaking – must she really choose?<\/p>\n

Her ever-practical father reluctantly allows Lucy to backpack through Europe with Charlene after high school graduation, in trade for Lucy majoring in business (which she hates).<\/p>\n

When Lucy meets Jesse in Italy, she delights in the beauty of Florence, the shimmer of Tuscan sunlight, the warmth of his kisses. However, her troubadour intends to continue traveling abroad, playing his guitar, not returning to his family in New Jersey any time soon.<\/p>\n

So it’s a tearful goodbye at the train station, a sad flight back to dad’s alma mater. Spying a poster for theater tryouts puts some pep in Lucy’s step – why can’t a business major be in a play?<\/p>\n

How can she reconcile her father’s demands with her love for performing?
\nWhy hang out with college boys when she can’t stop thinking about Jesse?
\nWill she ever see him again?
\n(One of 7,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One last summer of freedom, the beauty and glory of Florence, the excitement of love… And then Lucy must give up her theater dreams to become a business major, or her father won’t pay for college at all! Hard choices…and Jesse back in Italy so hard to get in touch with. Read the first 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[22,7,11,20,5,16,40,44,43,158,39,49,240,15,9,21,73,35,3,143,6,8],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-italy","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-pennsylvania","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-theater","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}