During a break in this morning's team meeting, I had a great idea. Thinking about ways to bring what I love to our department, I thought--wow! Wouldn't it be cool to have a book club! Given the inclinations of the others in the department, though, I would have to find a way to make sure we didn't drift toward nonfiction. I know! We could arrange our selections thematically to correspond with the classes we teach, or topics we promote, or--even better!--to correspond with our "certificate programs," which bring everything together (classes, philosophy, whatever). Unfortuately, when I started brainstorming, this is what happened:
- Web Design - Burning Chrome by William Gobson
- Desktop Publishing - The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
- Personal Development - The Hunger Games trilogy
- Office Administration - "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville
- Diversity - Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Communication Styles - Ulysses by James Joyce; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; The Stranger by Albert Camus
Yeah... Perhaps I'll wait to propose this. Indefinitely.
