so i was like 99.9% percent sure that i saw francesca lia block's weetzie bat on flavorpill, but i can not find a post. i have found this amazing a "weird girl's reading list: 10 best outsider books for teenagers" that i will now add to my many list of books i need to read. however, i know it wasn't this post that i learned of weetzie bat from because the cover is not the same. though maybe the cover isn't why i got it? i just recognized the name. anyway, who cares all that matter is that i have it. and that i found it at the goodwill in delano! yes, in delano, and for like .79 i think. talk about a deal!
so weetzie bat was supposed to be my final read of 2014. it's only 113 pages and the book is a mini one so it's probably more like 50. i started it on new years eve while waiting for my friend danny to finish his shopping at the amoeba in sf, however, i did not finish it before midnight struck. (there was a lot of prep and prepartying on my nye). so instead of being my last book of 2014, it ended up being my first book of 2015 (i finished reading it while waiting for brunch on new years day!)
and can i just say that i love weetzie bat it's like this wild little adventures that takes place in the city that i love best, los angeles! i mean on the first page, graumann's, the farmer's market and okie-dog are name-checked. i texted my friend cody, who dragged me to okie-dog, a handful of nights, when i read that. and it turns out his ex-stepmom had him reaad weetzie bat in high school! (also i learned about ponyland which used to be an amusement park where the beverly center is now!)
so weetzie bat was a young high school girl that lives in shangri l.a., she had a blonde pixie haircut and dressed up in vintage dresses with taffeta or fringe, feather headdresses and moccasins (all the pre-coachella phenomenon.) she befriended the hottest guy at school, dirk. they spent a bunch of time hanging out, there was the promise of love in the air, and then it is discovered at the end of the chapter that dirk is gay! the best ones are always gay! oh and i should clarify, no love in the hetero sense of boyfriend/girlfriend relationship, there is plenty of love between dirk and weetzie!
from dirk's grandmother, weetzie received a magic lamp. a genie granted her three wishes and her life began to unfold. i won't go into a rehashing of the plot, i mean it's 100 pages, you should check it out and i promise it won't take more than a day to finish.
i will say that i loved the story of dirk and duck, at the end of the novel. duck unable to cope with death of a friend to aids ran away to sf. dirk just following instinct found him because duck was in his blood. so sweet and what a wonderful point to make esp since blood became so scary due to aids.
there is so much that happened in this novel and it was all weird and wonderful. oh i just remember about how weetzie, dirk, and duck decided to have a child together! loved that too. it's a great little book and you should definitely pick it up or you can borrow mine. hopefully i can make it through the rest of the series in 2015. it was a great kick off book for the new year!
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