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Summary: Goddesses
Review: Books by Francesca Lia Block are always gorgeous. In Girl Goddess #9, there were stories about girls making zines, in love with rock stars, about best friends racing through life. There was a girl with a little blue friend in her closet, and a girl who had two beautiful mothers. Jacaranda, Rave, Desiree, Alabaster Duchess and Lady Ivory, Pixie and Pony, Tuck, Izzy and Anastasia, Winnie, & Tweetie Sweet Pea are all goddesses.
As always, I appreciated the pulchritudinous diction of my favorite author. Words that make you feel like everything is shattering inside, and then melting all together again, better than before. Dragons in Manhattan was a gorgeous story that spun like glittering kaleidoscopes. Izzy & Anastasia are so beautiful, two monarchs spinning a web for their daughter to fly from. It is definitely the best story in the book.
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Summary: cute
Review: I really enjoyed the first story in this book. About Sweet Pea and Peachy Pie. Cute. The other stories are okay but the first and 'Rave' are worth a read. Sometimes I read the stories and wished for more, but most of the time I wished that FLB wrote with better grammer skills. She loves to start a sentence with And. It gets annoying. If you want to read a better book from FLB try Violet and Claire or Echo.
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Summary: Every Girl's Diary
Review: I look back now, and I realize that Girl Goddess #9 was a big part of my formative years. It was the first FLB book, and it still one of my favorites.When I read the title story, I remember thinking, "Well,I like Sarah McLachlan, maybe I should give Tori Amos a try." (If you don't know how that story ended, well, know that I think nothing of driving ten hours to go to a Tori concert.) And, a year or so later, I re-read the story and thought, "Hey, I like Sarah and Tori, maybe I should try the Cocteau Twins." Thus began another addiction which annually saps me about fifty bucks. I was going through major issues with a very dear friend as I read "Pixie and Pony," and for years now, those words have stayed with me: "Best friends? We are sisters." After my mother's injury, I struggled to reconcile the reality of her new self with the way she had once been. The story "La" was of enormous help. GG#9 is every girl's diary. It is all of our fears and hopes and drems. It is everything we've questioned about life, our futures, our parents, our sexuality, and love. Each girl is perfectly unique, very mysterious, and yet completely familiar. Each of these girls is like a little facet of each other, and of ourselves.
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Summary: Girl Goddess #9 Rocks!
Review: The sights, sounds, smells and tastes of bohemian/beatnik/alternative/rock-star/every day worlds come alive thanks to the creative prowess of Francesca Lia Block. Block is a poet - able to create whole worlds in just a few words. Her lyrical style keeps her stories moving fluidly. What I don't like about this book is that it makes me feel like I've missed out on so much - the smells of flowers, the rock-star names, the spontaneity with which her protagonists fully embrace life. This is the first of Block's books that I have read - I'll be picking up Weetzie Bat and others soon!
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