My Harry Potter saga

  

So, now that I’m teaching middle school, I decided that I need to play catch up with my YA (Young Adult) lit. reading.  I figured I’d start with the big one…Harry Potter.  I’d read the first book as part of a YA lit course I took as part of my MA program and had already decided that there isn’t anything satanic about it.  It’s fiction, and fairly imaginative and entertaining at that.  It was very obvious from even a casual reading of the first book that there is no real witchcraft in it.  (After reading a novel by a self-professed Wiccan, and having a friend who used to run with that crowd, I think I can stand behind my assessment pretty confidently.)  At any rate, the point is that I decided that I need to reread the first book and make my way through the rest.  I’m up to the fourth book (the first really huge one) and am thoroughly enjoying myself, though I certainly have not joined the rank and file fandom–for some reason, I’m just not getting that into it.

I also decided that as I read the books, I might as well rent the films, that way I can compare the two with the story fresh in my mind.  So, I just finished watching the third film tonight.  It is the first one that I’ve been disappointed with.  There was so much more depth to the novel…so many essential parts of the story that got completely left out, or glossed over to the point that they completely lost their relevance.  Very frustrating and sad.  It’s kind of made me worry about watching the next film.  What butchery do I have in store for me to make a 700+ page book into a 2 hour movie?

In other news, my latest crochet project is giving me fits.  I’m working on the February Riding Jacket from my Interweave Crochet magazine, which is crocheted from the neck down.  I got to the part where you skip stitches to create an armhole (about 8 hours worth of work) and discovered that there had been a significant error in row 2, which got repeated a total of 10 times, leaving me 40 stitches too short.  Ah!  So, I’ve got to take all that work apart and start again.

So, I think I’ll be setting that project aside for just a short while.  In the meantime, I need to finish a sweater I started as a sample for a woman I know who owns a yarn shop.

Of course, I also have a ton of grading to get finished in the next week or so, and I need to be working on my Tudor gown if I’m going to make it to the GBACG event next month.  But for now, I think I need to get to bed so that I’m not dragging tomorrow.

January 6, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized

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