rissolution

Though I haven't blogged, lately, I have kept reading ... slowly. The end of the school year approacheth, and I'm trying very hard to stay (mostly) caught up with work. Thoughful reading and blogging suffers at such a time.

Here's the problem, though. Next year, I will be teaching a Great Books class. I'm really excited about this, of course. But my deep, dark secret is that most of the books I'll be teaching? I've never read them. And it's an AP course so there's a lot of them. Like, a LOT, a lot. So I really need to finish this Moby Dick thing in order to dig into the pile of reading that will monopolize my summer. So ...

Rissolution the First: Finish Moby Dick by June 11. That gives me until the end of the semester, plus one week.

Rissolution the Second: Post a list of the Great Books I'll be teaching, and poll my readers -- all three of you (Hi, Aileen! Thanks for commenting!) -- on which one should be the next blog focus. That will be the slow read for the summer, while I try to dash through a bunch of the others. And then maybe when the fall semester starts, I'll go back to blogging Melville (Typee?) or Melville related titles (Ahab's Wife?)

P.S. I googled "rissolution," hoping to link to the Winnie the Pooh passage in which one of the woodland creatures (Owl I thought ... but now I think it may have been Eeyore) pens a "rissolution" bidding Christopher Robin a fond farewell. But Google wouldn't allow for the misspelling and corrected it to "dissolution." That's different, right?