Block is one of my sister’s favorite writers, and I’ve been meaning to check her out for a while, but I haven’t seen her on the shelves used, and Rosie is not big on lending out books, owing to her intense paranoia. But she snagged me a copy of my own, a few days ago.

Impressions; Block’s style is interesting. Extremely…hasty. She’s not big on deep description, more into dropping names and words and stringing events together. The result is a shadowy and dreamlike structure without a lot of meat on it. Not sure how much I approve or disapprove.

The content is very hippie or post-hippie. Good ethos—normally kids’ fantasy reinforces relatively traditional family values, and of course it’s usually disproportionately anglo-saxon; Block definitely breaks out of these constraints.