Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year

By Francesca Lia Block

Book Overview

The author chronicles her feelings of joy and anxiety while observing her daughter grow and mature through her first twelve months, and describes the gifts that motherhood has brought into her life. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0066213673
• ISBN13: 9780066213675
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: HarperResource
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous Lyrical Ode to a Baby Girl

This is a beautifully written book. I read it obsessively from cover to cover, in one sitting. It is so familiar to what I feel for my little girl. It is absolutely lyrical, delightful. I highly recommend, especially for those who can appreciate the experiences AND the writing!

a great book by a clearly loving mother...

'Guarding the Moon' is a wonderful book about how joyous and enrapturing motherhood and babies are. Those who found this book "hilarious" or "terrible" apparently don't understand the obsession a woman can have with loving her child, when she has desired one for a long time. If you're looking for a book with nothing but cutsie anecdotes about stinky diapers and complaints about waking up in the middle of the night with a child, then you shouldn't read this book.

Leapin' Lizards- FLB Rocks

If you're familiar with FLB's books and her writing style, you will thoroughly enjoy this book. I enjoyed her frank honesty about the way some new mothers can obsess about all the important and seemingly unimportant things about their babies. This book does a great job of expressing her growing into her own skin as a new mama.

Awesome as usual :)

At first when I heard about this book, I didn't think it'd be as good as her others because it wasn't fiction, but being that Francesca Lia Block is my favorite author, I bought it anyway. I read the whole thing last night, and I don't have any problem admitting that I was completely wrong about my first assumption. This book is her best yet. It's so touching the way she talks about her daughter and her new life as a mother. It's deffinately a book you want to own a copy of.

Ms. Block does it AGAIN!

You should probably know that I'm a bit biased about this book, because Francesca Lia Block is, in my opinion, the most amazing author ever. So of course I devoured _Guarding the Moon_ in less than 24 hours, and found every page delicious. Block meditates on life with her new daughter using the same gorgeous language that made me fall in love with her fictional characters. Even as someone who *never* wants children, I couldn't help but be moved by Block's love for her daughter. The book, like Block's others, is beautiful, even as some parts are very sad. If you've read her other works, you've no doubt wondered about which of the themes (dead & dying fathers, eating disorders, etc.) Block had pulled out of her own life. This book answers some of those questions and is a beautiful testament of a mother's love for her daughter.