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title: (week notes 25)
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date: 2025-07-18
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tags:
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- week-notes
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draft: true
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## Doing
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## Reading
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I finished reading *Return of the King* this week, completing a long-standing personal mission to read *The Lord of the Rings*. I [wrote up a big long post](https://git.32bit.cafe/cassie/cassiedotink.git) with my history with the series and my thoughts.
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Originally, I planned to read *Perdido Street Station* next, but I wanted something breezy after the *RotK* gauntlet, so I picked up *Ghost Boys* by Jewell Parker Rhodes and burned through it in a day. It was amazing. I'm adjuncting at my local college in the fall — it's a course for future English teachers about young adult literature. I'm considering offering students a choice of this or *All American Boys*. Both deal with a similar subject matter, but *Ghost Boys* is better suited for middle school. I'd love to teach the book to my middle schoolers, too, but I think that will be an uphill battle...[^1]
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## Watching
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I've been rewatching *Downton Abbey*. I'm in season two right now; I'm debating whether to finish the series (I never watched past season five, I think) or if I'll stop when they kill off some major characters in season three. I am glad to confirm that I was always right: Mary is the main character and the best character.
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## Playing
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## Listening
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[^1]: But one worth climbing |