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(week notes 25) 2025-07-18
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Doing

Reading

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 with my history with the series and my thoughts.

I burned through Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes in a day — it was adjuncting. 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

Watching

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.

Playing

Listening


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