false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg 14563 4 <P><b> An exquisite novel about the consequences of who we choose to love.</P><P> Lex and his sister, Marina, are inseparable. The air they share has always been light and boundless, but suddenly it's weighted down. And now Lex is gone. When the one relationship that cradled her turns out to shatter her sense of self, Marina needs her friend West to help put the pieces back together. But Marina won't feel truly complete until she faces the past that is haunting her.</P><P> Highly acclaimed and award&ndash;winning author Francesca Lia Block tells the tale of a brother and sister whose loving relationship is too intense for them to bear. With the sensitivity and refinement that Block is known for, she manages to weave together her characters and their lives into this beautiful and thought&ndash;provoking tale.</P><P> </b></b><b></P> 990433 2003 Wasteland total:706|5:244|4:193|3:184|2:67|1:18| 706 2696 976 53 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 3 8 false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 23 08:24:03 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 05 10:54:49 -0700 2009 "We keep burning in the brown smog pit. The girls swarm in their black moth dresses. Their scalps are shaved like concentration camp ladies. Rats click my head. Everything broken.".


This is how Wasteland begins. This is why I love I love Francesca so much. She uses wo...more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 2 3 true Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 14:32:09 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 14:48:04 -0700 2008 should like Francesca Lia Block, that I do like her, and then I read her stuff and am reminded that, no, she's not particularly my cup of tea. She does a lot of interesting things with her narrative structure and the way she tells her story, but 1) I don't think her flight...more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 2 2 false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 20:55:39 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 20 14:59:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 5 2 false Wed Oct 22 10:52:27 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 10:52:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 3 1 false Thu Jul 10 17:56:26 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 16:10:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 5 2 false Thu May 03 07:53:09 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 13:46:37 -0700 2007
"You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and pl...more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 3 0 false Thu Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 09:44:47 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 15:45:52 -0800 2009 I love how you manage to make every single word on every single page sensually charged. In this case, of course, it's a bit dark (woo, incest!) but you manage to make it a thing..that..happens...and is hard and sad, and gets confused ...more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 5 0 false Sun Jul 12 13:14:43 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 16:09:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 5 1 true Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 14:48:41 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 14:59:01 -0800 2008
Marina and her brother Lex have an unusual relationship. Everyone suspects the taboo, deeper love than sibling connection so their tries to keep them apart. However, th...more...]]> 1004307 006028644X 9780060286446 15 2 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180148159m/1004307.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1004307.Wasteland 4 0 false Thu Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Jan 11 02:41:33 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 18:42:50 -0800 2009
As Marina delves deeper into ...more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 17 19:59:12 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 20:38:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 3 0 false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Wed Jun 13 10:57:55 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 10:58:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 4 0 false Tue Nov 25 18:24:23 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 18:35:26 -0800 2008 2? 3? more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 3 0 false Sat May 30 18:07:42 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 18:10:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 4 0 false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 18:58:12 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 15:16:53 -0700 2009 . the language is like poetry
. unpredictable
. mature
. believable, flawed characters

CONS:
. doesn't add "" when people talk, can be confusing
. short
. a lot unsaid, not so much mysterious as annoying-I agree there should be some unsai...more...]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 3 0 false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 21:51:48 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 22:01:45 -0700 2009 The Magic Toyshop.]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 15 12:30:29 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 12:33:11 -0800 2008 Deals with incest and suicide in teens. What more can I say? I read the book for her, but found the writing uneven and the story tragic. Not an uplifting book. ]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 5 0 false Tue May 05 05:11:51 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 07:41:40 -0700 2009
The prose was such that a got goosebumps as I read. The characters went beyond two dimentionality into their own people. I would recommend to anyone who appreciates good quality fiction.]]> 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 3 0 false Tue Oct 13 15:30:21 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 15:31:40 -0700 2009 14563 0064408396 9780064408394 686 51 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166639453m/14563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14563.Wasteland 5 0 false Wed Feb 11 16:24:59 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 16:26:00 -0800 2009 28 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=14563