http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com A Book Blog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:10:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/witch-baby/ http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/witch-baby/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:10:24 +0000 Bitsy http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1879 Witch Baby Francesca Lia Block really spreads her wings and finds her pace. Witch Baby is the second book in her Dangerous Angels series and is her sophomore novel. You really need to have read Weetzie Bat for Witch Baby to make any sense. Witch Baby is my favorite character in the whole crazy Bat family. She is a black sheep, an outsider, a loner. She doesn't want to stick her head in the sand and forget about the troubles in the world, or pretend they don't exist. She doesn't try and use smoke and mirrors in the guise of drugs, alcohol, parties, etc to hide from the ugly truth of the world. She faces it head on. She puts it on display for everyone to see and forces other people to acknowledge the pain and suffering, the poisons and toxins, the ignorance and fear.]]> http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/witch-baby/feed/ 0 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-7/ http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-7/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:04:38 +0000 Bitsy http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1889 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-7/feed/ 0 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/weetzie-bat/ http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/weetzie-bat/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:59:27 +0000 Bitsy http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1837 Weetzie Bat was at a very young age, and really too young for the subject matter at hand. The writing might lead you to think otherwise as it is really written at a 6th grade or lower level. Publisher's Weekly says its perfect for 12 and up, the School Library Journal says 10th grade and up. See the disparity? Weetzie Bat was Francesca Lia Block's first novel and the first in her Dangerous Angels series. I wanted to re-read it to capture some of the adventure and sparkle and hope I had gotten the first time around when I read it at the young age of 12. I was an outcast, a loner, a reader and a ridiculously creative dreamer (in the crazy sunshine and rainbows way, though if you are here reading this at my blog you probably already knew that). I still got some of that magic, but now I'm older and not all of it managed to keep its hold. As an adult there were some problems, some hitches, some flaws. Mainly my naivete is gone and with it went a lot of my original enjoyment of the book.]]> http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/weetzie-bat/feed/ 0 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-6/ http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-6/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:27:41 +0000 Bitsy http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1869 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-6/feed/ 0 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/saving-ceecee-honeycutt/ http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/saving-ceecee-honeycutt/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:00:52 +0000 Bitsy http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1817 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/saving-ceecee-honeycutt/feed/ 0 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-5/ http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-5/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:01:58 +0000 Bitsy http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1829 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-5/feed/ 0 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/rampant/ http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/rampant/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:00:04 +0000 Bitsy http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1786 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/rampant/feed/ 0 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-4/ http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-4/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 15:15:34 +0000 Bitsy http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1762 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-4/feed/ 0 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/charity-girl/ http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/charity-girl/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 14:36:17 +0000 Bitsy http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1749 Charity Girl a Viscount named Desford meets a young woman named Charity, "Cherry" for short, hiding away upstairs at a ball. She was foisted off on these relatives by an absent father and is treated more like glorified help then a poor relation in need. Naturally she ends up running away to London in a search for her grandfather. Desford finds her on the road to London and, after hearing her story, decides she would be better off with her grandfather and so gives her a lift. Unfortunately they arrive in London just to discover that her grandfather is out in the country and no one knows where or when he will be back.]]> http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/charity-girl/feed/ 0 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-3/ http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-3/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 17:01:05 +0000 Bitsy http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1738 http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-3/feed/ 0