![]() ![]() I felt the same way at the second event, which was for Necklace of Kisses at Skylight Books in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles. I remember sitting there and listening to her talk about her book Wasteland and wishing that I was still writing for magazines so I could interview her. The first one I went to was at Vroman’s in Pasadena. Lucky for me, the Glendale Barnes & Noble had a rather large section of her books, which kept me busy for months. After reading those, I read everything I could find by Francesca. I loved them not only because I could relate to the characters but because they were so beautifully written, like well thought out poetry where every word counts. Two of those latter books were novels by Francesca Lia Block, The Hanged Man and Violet & Claire. ![]() I suppose I read some of them because they were triggering and encouraged me to restrict my calories in that way, but there were also those books that simply made me feel like I wasn’t alone in my suffering. During this time, I read every eating disorder related book I could find. When I lived in Glendale, a suburb of Los Angeles, a decade ago, I went through a long period of being anorexic. ![]()
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