Picking a Book (#3)

Okay. Well, I wasn't even planning on reading "Echo" by Francesca Lia Block, but I needed a book to read for Independent Reading, and this is the book I found. I looked up the book on amazon.com, and it sounds okay. It talks about fairies, mystical creature, vampires and stuff. Almost all the comments about the book from the readers looked good too. So, I guess the book can't be that bad. The site says that this book is about a girl who seems to blend in to the background, mainly because of her beautiful mom gets more attention than she does (woah. i just think that's weird). I can already tell that this book with be somewhat about an insecure girl, maybe trying to find out who she is. I don't know though, it's just a guess.

The Author:

Francesca Lia Block was born on January 3, 1962 in Los Angeles, California. She writes many young adult books, but her most famous has been the "Weetzie Bat" series. She is known for her "fairy tale" books, and a major influence in her writing is Greek Mythology. Francesca Block has won the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Library Association. She is so popular that her work has been translated into 7 different languages, and people all over the world are reading her book.

*One interesting fact is that she has two dogs: a springer spaniel named Vincent Van Go Go Boots and a beagle mix named Thumper. Another intesting fact is that she is creating a a original show for MTV, and she is writing the screenplay for "Weetzie Bat."

*According to wikipedia

Reading the Book
This book has 215 pages, so if I read 100 pages a week, it'll take me about 2 weeks to read this book, but I'll try to finish this book by friday, so I can get a new book next week =]

isn't that just a pretty book cover?

[edit: I feel so stupid. I created this blog post on wednesday, but clicked "save now" instead of "publish post," so no one could see it. ehhh. oh well, I'm posting it now]