It's a great day for an apocalypse.

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We're starting a schoolwide literacy class this year -- thirty minutes at the start of every day, with silent reading and mini-lessons on comprehension and vocabulary. Today I got an email outlining our lesson plans for the rest of the week. Wednesday: "Watch a 15-minute interview with Suzanne Collins about her series, The Hunger Games, then

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Ha! I'm actually fine with the blood and gore. I've read the entire series of 76 comics, and -- without getting spoilery -- some seriously dark shit happens. On the drive home today, I was thinking that many of the events and themes are similar to BSG, but on a much smaller scale. Also, I'll admit that 'ships draw me into a fandom through the potential for fic and such, but I really don't see any potential ones here that would get to me the same way that Kara/Lee or my other previous OTPs did. Not that it matters all THAT much in the end, but it's a complication. *g*

ETA: I meant to add that another complication is that I'm a bit intimidated by the comics fans! They can get kinda hardcore sometimes. ;) I'm sure they'll be lovely, and TV fandom is a very different thing than comics, but it should still be an interesting experience!

Yeah, Lincoln's great, but I'll reserve judgment on the accent. ;)

HG and CF are probably a bit much for my 11-12 year olds, but good for the older kids. I'm not sure I'd even want the 8th graders reading MJ, though! (Same with Chaos Walking. I've seen Ness's assertions that young readers can and should handle those types of stories, but I don't quite agree with them in part because of the bleakness and very adult themes and that they might not be mature enough yet to really understand everything that is going on.)

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Ah, Ships draw me in too. That's kind of the piece I need to get all fic-write-y about it. I'm not sure why that is. My heart doesn't lie in gen fic in general I guess. (And I'm not a huge fan of Sarah Wayne Callies. But maybe she'll impress me more here.)

To his credit, I only noticed the accent being really weird in the first line he said. (Still wish Jamie had gotten it!)

Yeah I'm not sure how dark is too dark. I remember reading some crazy shit (Flowers in the Attic...probably some Stephen King) when I was middle school ages though.