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The rebirth of the postmodern flaneur: notes on the postmodern landscape of Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie ...
Jan Susina
Wayne State University Press, 2002
This digital document is an article from Marvels & Tales, published by Wayne State University Press on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 6232 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation ...
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Beautiful Boys: Two Weetzie Bat Books (Weetzie Bat) 1 review
Francesca Lia Block
HarperCollins, 2004
I love the weetzie bat books..but
This book, like Goat Girls has 2 previously published stories:Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop, both in which are fantastic. Missing Angel Juan is a story about Angel Juan and Witch Baby who fall in love. Baby Be-Bop is just as amazing as Angel Juan but has 3 different parts. It has a really ...
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WITCH BABY (DANGEROUS ANGELS S.)20 reviews
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK
ATOM, 2002
Dark and Magical
+ I love anything that Block writes
+ Animals
+ Stunning in a childlike way
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How to (Un)cage a Girl
Francesca Lia Block
HarperTeen, 2008
A celebration of girls and women in a three part poetry collection that is powerful, hopeful, authentic, and universal.
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The Hanged Man 49 reviews
Francesca Lia Block
HarperTeen, 1999
Magical, fantastic, completely bewitching!
+ Different but good
+ Loved it, very introspective
I really enjoyed this book.Once agian francesca writes a poetic prose on topics that are very sensitive. Franseca tells the story of laurel. A girl who lives underneath the famous hollywood sign with her mother, a once beautiful woman that now cleans incessantly to keep the "disease" away. In the ...
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Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy1 review
Francesca Lia Block, Kara Dalkey, ...
Puffin, 2007
A Good Collection
I read the first collection, The Firebird, and feel in love all over again with Megan W. Turner and for this book, in addition to my already favorite authors, it introduced me to more of authors whose styles I like very much.
First of all is Ellen Klages, with 'In The House of the Seven ...
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Zine Scene: The Do It Yourself Guide to Zines 22 reviews
Francesca Lia Block, Hillary Carlip
Girl Press, 1998
Fabulous! Inspiring!
+ Fun and Inspiring
+ The best book on zines out there, sereoiusly
+ it rocked my little world
+ THIS IS THE COOLEST BOOK EVER!!
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Blood Roses2 reviews
Francesca Lia Block
HarperTeen, 2008
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
+ probably for fans only...
On Francesca Lia Block's website, there are a bunch of words lumped together, reminding me of magnetic poetry that has been used to describe her work. I couldn't agree more with the words reviewers have used. The one word that kept jumping out at me while reading this was lyrical. I was looking for ...
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The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold63 reviews
Francesca Lia Block, 2000
great
+ Oh come on!
this book was really great. often with the retelling of a popular story there is the potential to fail miserably, as so many people know and love the original. even taking the bare bones of a story and (like cinderella for example) and using it as a plot line for other stories wherein you can ...
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Violet & Claire123 reviews
Francesca Lia Block, 1999
Violet and Claire
+ Brief, predictable, but some interesting imagery
+ Love the Poetry
+ Like an art film put into words
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Nymph 37 reviews
Francesca Lia Block
Circlet Press, 2003
A Magical Fairytale Tapestry Of Love, Healing And Sex
+ Must Read!! Especially for Block fans!
+ Where fantasy is reality
+ Dear Francesca, make me more books like this, but work harder on them.
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Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (Weetzie Bat)16 reviews
Francesca Lia Block
HarperCollins, 1993
Another triumph from Ms. Block
+ poetic and dreamlike
+ "Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys" - my review
+ Slinkster Cool
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Weetzie Bat115 reviews
Francesca Lia Block
HarperTeen, 2004
Winsome Weetzie Tries Too Hard, But Largely Succeeds
+ Not your typical Young Adult novel
I got this book as a gift from a boyfriend who loved it, and it took me forever to actually get around to reading it, even though it is very short. I finished reading it sitting on a bench in a park in Manhattan, an appropriately precious setting for a book like this. At times, and especially at ...
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Read it and weep for contemporary children.(young-adult books)(excerpt from The New York Times, February 23, ...
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2005
This digital document is an article from The American Enterprise, published by American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 391 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with ...
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Necklace of Kisses18 reviews
Francesca Lia Block, 2005
A fitting matured continuation of the Weetzie Bat series: magical, vivid, meaningful, and a delight to read. Highly recommended
+ READ IT NOW!
+ A Grown Up Oz
+ love love loved it
+ Welcome back, Weetzie!
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Echo62 reviews
Francesca Lia Block
HarperTeen, 2002
Not for Youngins
+ Excellent
+ beautiful
+ Very interesting.
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Baby Be-Bop (Weetzie Bat)14 reviews
Francesca Lia Block
HarperCollins, 1997
Doesn't get better than this...
+ Beautiful, by far one of her most touching
+ a some-what harsh (but brilliant) dose of trueth
I love everything Francesca Lia Block has written (except maybe The Hanged Man), but this one has to be my favorite. I could read it forever. Aboslutely heartbreaking and soul-wrenching. Dirk and Duck were my favorites in the Weetzie Bat series, and this was the story I always wanted to hear, ...
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Quakeland5 reviews
Francesca Lia Block
Manic D Press, Inc., 2008
block shakes things up
+ One of her most personal works
+ a lovely lyrical wander
This novel contains everything I've loved about Block's work (dreamy, color-saturated prose; insider portraits of L.A.) and some qualities I didn't expect: Not only does it take a more adult approach to relationships, but it takes a turn for the meta/experimental a little over halfway through. The ...
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The genre of gender: the emerging canon of transgender-inclusive YA literature.(Young adult review)(Book ...
Elsworth Rockefeller
Thomson Gale, 2007
This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2989 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details ...
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Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year12 reviews
Francesca Lia Block
Collins Living, 2003
a great book by a clearly loving mother...
+ Wonderful!
+ Gorgeous Lyrical Ode to a Baby Girl
'Guarding the Moon' is a wonderful book about how joyous and enrapturing motherhood and babies are. Those who found this book "hilarious" or "terrible" apparently don't understand the obsession a woman can have with loving her child, when she has desired one for a long time. If you're looking for a ...
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