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The Power of Music, and Love -- The Times Leader
-- By Deborah Sisson -- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 --
The Song Reader is an endearing tale about growing up in the midst
of tragedy, family struggles and mental illness. The story is told
from the point of view of a young girl, Leeann, and her older sister
Mary Beth, the song reader. It is the story of a girl's coming of
age and a family in the midst of crisis and struggle...
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The Song Tells the Story -- Culture Dose -- Laurie
Edwards -- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 -- There are too many stories
out there that deal with a girl's relationship with her mother. From
the horror of "No more wire coat hangers-ever!" to the
sentimentality of Mother's Day cards, we've all read the
mother/daughter bond too many times. But there's a familial
relationship we don't read too much about, one that can stand a
really good treatment: a girl's relationship with her elder
sister...
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Booklist - The Song Reader -- Debut Novel Hits the
Right Note -- May 13, 2003 -- Lisa Tucker will always remember
the time she and her younger sister were sitting around listening to
an Aerosmith song several years ago. No matter how hard she tried,
Tucker couldn't get that tune out of her head, especially because of
its lyrics. "The song was haunting me, so I wondered 'what does
it really mean to me?'" Later on, Tucker started asking her
friends what songs were on their minds, with the hunch that
it would help them make sense of their own lives...
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The Boston Globe -- By Diane White--Sunday,
May 11, 2003 -- Lisa Tucker's first novel, ''The Song
Reader,'' is narrated by Leeann Norris, just 11 years old when the
book opens. Leeann's mother has been killed in a car accident. Her
father disappeared, inexplicably, years ago. Leeann lives in a small
Missouri town with her older sister, Mary Beth, who works as a
waitress in a diner and does ''song readings'' on the side. Mary
Beth has a theory that the songs that roll around in people's heads
are clues to their deepest thoughts and feelings...
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Song stuck in one's head holds meaning -- Robin
Vidimos, Denver Post Books Editor -- Sunday, May 04, 2003
- It starts in stealth and complete innocence. A scrap of a melody
hummed in the shower, a lyric that flashes over coffee, a tuneless
whistle behind the wheel. Before you know it, it has set up camp...
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First-time writer Tucker
scores with "Song Reader"-- Review
by Carrie Seidman -- The Albuquerque Tribune - May 2, 2003 --
If Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" was the surprise hit
of the literary world in 2002, Lisa Tucker's debut novel, "The
Song Reader" could well be this year's equivalent. Tucker's
first effort out of the gate is a clear winner...
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Library Journal -- April 15 2003 -- Tucker, Lisa.
The Song Reader -- Downtown: Pocket. May 2003. c.320p. ISBN
0-7434-6445-1. pap. $12 -- ...The story revolves around
Mary Beth, who has decided that she can help people solve their
problems by analyzing the music they most often listen to or cannot
get out of their heads...
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Booklist -- April 1, 2003 -- Tucker, Lisa. The
Song Reader, May 2003 -- 320p. Pocket/Downtown, paper, $12
(0-7434-6445-1) -- Leeann and her older sister, Mary Beth, are
working to make ends meet after their dad left them years ago, and
their mom just recently died. Leeann is struggling through high
school as Mary Beth works two jobs, as a waitress and as a “song
reader”-using the song lyrics stuck in people’s minds to help
them make sense of their lives...
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Publishers Weekly - Starred Review -- March 17, 2003
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THE SONG READER --
Lisa Tucker. Pocket/Downtown, $12 paper (313p) ISBN 0-7434-6445-1 --
Tucker's assured debut novel is an achingly tender narrative about grief,
love, madness and crippling family secrets. Preteen Leeann Norris
introduces readers to her world: recently orphaned when her mother was
killed in a car accident, she lives with her older sister, Mary Beth, who
supports them by waiting tables and performing "song readings"
for locals in their small Missouri town...
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