book review
This review will appear in the 12/17 Eugene Weekly print issue and on our regular website.
Arcs of Evil and Justice
Segregation, shoplifting and the university of evil in young adult books
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, nonfiction by Phillip Hoose. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009. $19.95.
The Blonde of the Joke, fiction by Bennett Madison. HarperTeen, 2009. $16.99.
Evil Genius, Harcourt, 2005, $7.95; and Genius Squad, Harcourt, 2008, $17, fiction by Catherine Jinks.
The week after we finish Winter Reading means a rebound in reading joy — there’s no pressure, nothing we have to finish, plus we find the books hidden at the backs of bookshelves and address our stacks of library books with glee … and, in this case, tears.
Read more after the jump!
Last week, I reviewed former EW editor and local(ish) author Debra Gwartney's Live Through This in the paper. (I linked to Powell's there, but I'm PRETTY sure the book's available at the UO Bookstore, Smith Family or J. Michael's too.)
On an old blog post, "C. Nelson" disagreed with my review (and accused me of not reading the book).
I did read the book, C. Nelson and others, but I'd be happy for you to share your own reviews* in the comment section!
*Thoughtful reviews of the book welcome, spam or obvious PR deleted, and abuse of other commenters, the author or the reviewer also probably deleted unless it's so brilliantly written that I can't resist leaving it up.
Thor Hanson will read from his book The Impenetrable Forest and give a multimedia presentation at 7 pm Thursday, Nov. 20, 182 Lillis Hall, UO.
Hanson has tales from humorous anecdotes of machete-stealing gorillas to sad stories of the tragedy of HIV/AIDs in Uganda
You can read the review in tomorrow's EW but I wanted to post this in advance, since the talk is the same night the paper comes out.
Gorilla aficionados, Peace Corps wanna-bes, conservationists, eco-tourists and the Africa interested this is the talk for you.
