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Rose City Heist A True Crime Portland Tale of Sex Gravy Jewelry & Almost Rock & Roll
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Matt Love
Bill Hall
, July 12, 2014
Matt Love’s latest offering, “Rose City Heist” is a fast-paced, rollicking good read. And it’s all true! Well, I think it is, anyway. Matt is known around the state as a teacher and a prize-winning author of a shelf of books about the great state of Oregon. Even if you know Matt, you probably DON’T know what he was once a suspect in the largest jewel theft in the state’s history. Now that a generation has passed and the statute of limitations has expired, he finally shares his story. This book takes us back in time. Back to a time not all that long ago, the early nineties, but it was a very different Portland: the pre-Portlandia Portland, the pre-“Keep Portland Weird” Portland, not nearly as hip or cool. But it was a good place to be. It’s where Matt met and became friends with a traveling German jewelry salesman. It was that friendship, and the theft of a large cache of high-end gems that were in the friend’s custody, that led to the heist that gives this book it’s title. To tell you any more would be a massive spoiler, so I won’t. I’ll just assure you that you’ll find answers in here: why Matt and his friend came under suspicion, what really happened to the precious gems, and what’s happened in the decades since. Oh heck, one final spoiler: set aside a nice block of time when you open this book, because I’m pretty sure you won’t be able to put it down until you’ve finished it.
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Of Walking in Rain
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Matt Love
Bill Hall
, June 29, 2013
Ernest Hemingway once declared, “I’m not getting in the ring with Tolstoy.” I couldn’t help but think of that quote when I began reading Matt Love’s newest book, “Of Walking in Rain.” In his opening, Matt declares Ken Kesey’s “Sometimes A Great Notion” to be the greatest book on rain in the history of Oregon literature; he then announces his goal is to claim that title for himself with this volume. Matt grew up in Oregon City and has called the Oregon coast home for the past fifteen years. This book is a window into how rain has shaped his life and humanity. Like many of Matt’s books, this one defies easy categorization. It unfolds more or less in real time over the last three months of 2012. It’s part essay, part memoir, part diary, part fiction; though Matt sums it up better than I can, as he approaches the end, when he says: “The fanatics in Rainland are out there; they find me every day. I hope this book alternately reads like scripture, survival guide, recreational brochure, sensual atlas and instruction manual to them.” In my day job, I serve as one of the three Lincoln County commissioners. I sometimes like to fantasize about the edicts I would issue if I could be King of the County. One of them would be that every would-be newcomer would have to read this book before bringing their U-Haul across the county line. I want to see people here who understand who we are…and what makes us who we are. Did Matt accomplish his goal of knocking Kesey off his perch? He offers his own assessment of that near the end. I encourage you to come to your own conclusion, though. And to do that, you’ll need to read this very fine book.
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