{"id":3528,"date":"2012-11-01T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svmedaris.wordpress.com\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2012-11-01T12:13:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:13:05","slug":"radioactive-by-lauren-redniss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/radioactive-by-lauren-redniss\/","title":{"rendered":"Radioactive, by Lauren Redniss"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"orange

Radioactive<\/a>, by Lauren Redniss<\/p><\/div>\n

Currently The Big Read<\/em><\/a> at the UW-Madison this semester, this book is just phenomenal. The author\/artist is a genius–writing, illustrating, and creating her own font for this book–Lauren Redniss is a god! I’m so inspired by her work. <\/p>\n

Radioactive<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is about the life of Marie Curry, and along with being a gorgeously illustrated graphic novel, it’s incredibly-researched, historically accurate, full of drama, intrigue, love and death, it reads like a novel! Very hard to put down.<\/p>\n

Oh! And the cover (hard-cover version at least) glows in the dark–how cool is that??!!<\/p>\n

I can’t say enough about this book, nor can I say it well, so here’s a link to a terrific review of the book by journalist, writer, and current UW-Madison grad student, Emily Eggleston:
\nA Radioactive Treat<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out Lauren Redniss<\/strong><\/a> online and Radioactive<\/em><\/strong><\/a> itself. At her site you can also check out her wonderful “Op-art<\/strong>” pieces for the NYT<\/a>. Oh, and this book (that I have to have) Century Girl<\/strong><\/em> is also there. Check it out! Genius. Seriously.<\/p>\n

And here’s a video of Lauren talking about the making of Radioactive<\/strong><\/em> at a TED Talk (yep, she’s also young and beautiful–she’s got it all):<\/p>\n