#jonathan evison

[dk-thrive]

Time did not march on methodically, minute by minute, day by day; it sprinted away from us in mad bursts, a thief in flight.

— Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter (Dutton, January 7, 2025)

[catmint1]

Time did not march on methodically, minute by minute, day by day; it sprinted away from us in mad bursts, a thief in flight.

—Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter

[doctornerdington]

Picked up a book from the banned books display at the library. Excellent marketing, I gotta say.

[leehallfae]

“no matter how deep the infection runs, family is family. the only other choice is to cut them off like rotten limbs.”

— jonathan evison, lawn boy

[onebluebookworm]

After another year of censorship running rampant through the country, here’s the most challenged books of 2021

The American Library Association has released their Most Challenge Books of 2021 list, after a brutal year where book challenges and censorship are more prevalent than ever. The list is, once again, not surprising.

The complete list:

1. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe 2. Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison 3. All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson 4. Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez 5. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 6. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie 7. Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl  by Jesse Andrews 8. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 9. This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson 10. Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin

As opposed to last year, we’ve moved away from the anti-racist lit (although Hate U Give and Bluest Eye have moved up a few spots), and now LGBT lit and any book with “sexuality” has a target on its back. We’re living in a dark time, guys, and just reading these books isn’t enough. Media consumption is not activism. Fighting this level of censorship is going to take more than just awareness and platitudes. It’ll take action.

Keep informed, keep vigilant, and fight when you can. There’s a way out of this, we just have to fight back.

[can-i-quote-you-on-that]

'Honey, sometimes there's no real why in this world,' Cora said.  'There just ain't one, not one that makes any sense, and not one that's any comfort to a soul.  Most of the time in this world it's just a bad case of the way things are.  You gotta just absorb the world as best you can and look for the bright spots.'

Small World (Jonathan Evison)

[quotemadness]

Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you’ve ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you’ve ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you’ve ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

Jonathan Evison

[cutulisci]

Quello che resta del sogno americano: "Il giardiniere" di Jonathan Evison - minima&moralia

“Perché è questo che dovrebbero fare i bambini, dovrebbero ridere. Credo al mondo non ci sia un suono più bello e perfetto della risata di un bambino.” Il mondo dei migranti, di chi vive in un paese – in questo caso gli Usa – da figlio di immigrati messicani, cubani, portoricani, può essere raccontato in molti modi. Il conflitto sociale non sopisce mai ma evolve, cambia il modo di rapportarsi tra i bianchi e gli altri, cambiano i livelli di integrazione, nei casi più fortunati e rari mutano i rapporti di forze, in quelli belli le etnie e i colori si mischiano. In tutte le città – specie in quelle più piccole - si distingue ancora tra quartiere di migranti e quartiere di bianchi, poi di bianchi borghesi – la classe media – e i bianchi ricchi.