Quentin's Weeknotes 8/15/21 - 8/21/21

This Week:

• I finished reading “The Magician’s Land” by Lev Grossman. I read (and loved) the first book many years ago, followed quickly by the sequel which I liked somewhat less. This book felt like a necessary conclusion, sometimes rough and sometimes graceful. In a lot of ways, I felt like the most compelling character of this arc was Janet, the snarky and self-assured “mean girl” of the first book, who, in an amazing chapter in the middle of the book, tells a story of what she did while everyone else was adventuring. It was funny and sad and horrifying, and up there with some of my favorite parts of the whole series.
• With my son, I finished reading the second “Warriors” book by Erin Hunter, about clans of cats, living outside of human domestication. It keeps the story going but yikes, not so well written.
• We finished installing the objects from the Mask exhibit, and I finished writing and designing the text from some of the panels.
• We got within striking distance of finishing the syllabus for MUST251: North American Material Culture.
• I did some additional planning and coordination on an upcoming Indigenous speaker’s series.