A review by kjboldon
The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process by Francesca Lia Block

3.0

The parts of this book never quite added up to a whole for me. I've loved Block's writing since Weetzie Bat and some of the best parts of this were the magical writing about herself and LA. I love this author; she is lovely inside and out. It was painful to read about the cruelty others have casually inflicted regarding her looks, and still sadder to read how she's internalized that. The memoir part felt as if she still has some inner work to do on her relationship to herself and with her parents' memories. Some of the writing and book analysis parts felt jammed in for formatting reasons, and the writing instruction never felt melded with the memoir.