Francesca Lia Block





Francesca Lia Block

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January 03, 1962 in Los Angeles, The United States

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Francesca Lia Block was born in Los Angeles to a poet and a painter, their creativity an obvious influence on her writing. Another influence was her childhood love of Greek mythology and fairy tales.
She has lived in the city all her life, and still resides there with her daughter, Jasmine Angelina (about whom she wrote her book Guarding the Moon), her son Samuel Alexander, and her two dogs: a springer spaniel named Vincent Van Go Go Boots and a beagle mix named Thumper.
She left only to attend the University of California, Berkeley. She has often professed her love of Los Angeles, calling it a "Jasmine-scented, jacaranda-purple, neon sparked city," which she has nicknamed in her books "Shangri-LA."


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Average rating: 3.82 · 49,393 ratings · 4,103 reviews · 55 distinct works
Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1)
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 5,264 ratings — published 1989 — 15 editions
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Dangerous Angels: The Weetz...
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 4,224 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions
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I Was a Teenage Fairy
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 3,223 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions
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The Rose and the Beast: Fai...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 3,133 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions
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Echo
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 2,563 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions
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Violet & Claire
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 2,491 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions
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Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 2,007 ratings8 editions
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Witch Baby (Weetzie Bat, #2)
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,762 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions
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Wasteland
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 1,726 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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The Hanged Man
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,674 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions
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Pink Smog Weetzie Bat Witch Baby Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys Missing Angel Juan Baby Be-Bop Necklace of Kisses
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“You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can't be anywhere except together”
Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat

“Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.”
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“A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.”
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