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1. Happy birthday to both [livejournal.com profile] crazydiamondsue and [livejournal.com profile] lyrstzha. I missed both these lovely ladies' birthdays while in Georgia and I hope they had magnificent celebrations involving Sam Winchester's cake covered abs and some quality time with a healthy doggie, respectively.

2. [livejournal.com profile] thelastgoodname posted on The Amber Spyglass: HERE. Come talk about His Dark Materials with us.

3. My interviews both went amazingly well. I felt confident and comfortable and I think I acquitted myself smashingly. I think it's quite possible that I will be offered both jobs and then have some choice. (And I still may get interviews in OK and TN.) So, cross your fingers for me again as the waiting game resumes; I likely won't hear anything until the end of May as I was the first applicant to interview at both GA colleges.
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[livejournal.com profile] thelastgoodname and I are reading Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials series. She posted on the first book, The Golden Compass, HERE. (Which I still have yet to completely comment on, but will do as soon as I finish this post.)

I thoroughly enjoyed The Subtle Knife. It is everything I wished Harry Potter could have been. Don't get me wrong; I adore HP. But HP is not dark enough for me; there is darkness there (scads and scads of it) but that darkness is largely elided in order to make the novels more marketable to children. HDM embraces that darkness rather than ghosting over it; children are beaten in this story and abused terribly; sometimes they smoke and drink and talk crassly and OMG have sex. There is a level of realism here in terms of adolescent behavior that I found wanting in HP.

SPOILERS FOR THE SUBTLE KNIFE )

As always, everyone's welcome to chime in.

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