Resolutions

I never made any official resolutions on New Year's Day, but a couple weeks ago I made a few commitments to myself for this year.
First of all, I've decided to read more classic literature this year. I read a lot, most of it tends to be off the best seller list or random stuff I pick up at the bookstore or library while I'm meandering through their shelves. I haven't forbidden myself from still doing that kind of reading, I'm just going to intersperse it with classics. I started with Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, since it was sitting on my bookshelf in the office from this summer's library sale. I must admit so far, I'm not impressed. Anyone else out there read it? If so, what did you think? Maybe I just haven't got far enough into the book.


Second, my French is rapidly deteriorating, which I knew and had already made a commitment to at least keeping it from going any further down hill, but then it was further emphasized when I bumped into a guy from France today and stood there stumbling for my words. It's so frustrating not to have them (words) right there when you need them. For the time being my remedy for that is to do more reading in French. Currently I'm reading L'attentat by Yasmina Khadra, so far so good with that. I'm making myself read it with a dictionary and looking up any words that I don't know. After four nights of reading, my dictionary use has gone way down. I'm also trying to do some online lessons when I have time.