![]() ![]() Weetzie Bat was the dream, and it’s one that was imprinted on me at an early age. ![]() Weetzie Bat physically moved me in a way no book ever has since and I ached to live in Weetzie’s magical, lush rendering of Los Angeles, with the loving support network she created. ![]() Reading Weetzie Bat for the first time gave me a visceral, physical reaction-as I read it, I felt a hole in my heart that I didn’t know I had finally being mended. A few of them went so far as to make their chat room handles characters from Block’s books, and I knew I had to get my hands on them. I discovered Francesca Lia Block because in 1996 I spent a lot of time in a long-defunct website chatroom called WBS Pre-teen Chat, and cobbled together an online circle of super rad girls, spread out across the country, who were slightly older, and really, really into Block’s books. Weetzie Bat is near and dear to my heart-when I was 12, I was awkward, angry at the world, and ready for my real life to start as I’m sure a lot of 12 year olds were like then, and probably are still like now. ![]()
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