10/20: francesca lia block's los angeles

When Chris and I moved to Los Angeles in the early 1990s my mother sent us Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat books, and we loved reading them out loud to each other.  In the mid 2000s Chris and I ran a book group at school focused on the books, and it was fun to share them with people and hear their reactions.  Today I've been reading Block's latest novel, Love in the Time of Global Warming.  Its surreal post-apocalyptic Los Angeles is a far cry from the fairytale "Shangri L.A." she paints in the Weetzie series, but I'm enjoying spending time with it.