关于【读书札记】的札记

Thought about adding a Reading Note column in my blog for a long time, yet I have been dragging my feet for all kind of “self-pity” excuses. Now here it is, at last.

One thing’s been on my mind, kind of boggling and intruding the peace of my mind once in a while, ever since I’ve started bloging last year: what should write about in blog? Browsing on Internet, I’m often flabbergasted by exposing myself to the immanse talent of other bloggers, either in Chinese or in English, demonstrated in the world of blog, articulate easies, lengthy novels, vivid memoirs, travel logs, artistic creations, photos – be it scenery or social documentary type......whatever you can think of, blog has it. Blog provides an immense yet convenient platform for individual’s voice. Whatever people think, feel, consider and care about can be stated in their blogs without fretting themselves with the reasons like intellectual justification, political correctness, censorship – either on editing or ideological level, etc.

To me, reading, among all the sources that can be penned down as blogging materials, probably is the most thought-provoking area that should be recorded in writing. As you read, you not only gain knowledge and edify your feeling, but also, you generate more thoughts, ideas, inspirations upon the benefit of other’s writings.

Over the years, I have written down little of my thoughts, feelings, in many cases they are not traceable, harvested from reading, even though I have consumed a considerable volume of readings in my leisure time, books, magazines, newspapers. What a loss!

By setting up this READING Note column, hope it will serve a “reservoir” from now on to retain my thoughts garnered from my reading, some of them if not all, IF TIME PERMITS!

[edrifter]

回复北鹤的评论:

谢谢北鹤分享读书经验！讲得很好。

也许读书札记就像散文一样，应该是“形散而神不散”。有人习惯就书论书，有人可能会撇开书本身而引发出去谈自己的感想，并不一定与书本身有内容上的关联，各种形式，不一而足，只要与书有关，只要有思想有内容，都应该可以写的好。

至于博客，我想可以概括出许多的特点，但最本质的特点应该是自由表达。从这个意义上讲，如果把它当成一个 have to watch for 的 commitment，我觉得会变成一个负担。当然，这只是我个人的看法。

常来，大家多交流！

[北鹤]

写下来的并且能够传递的才可以叫做思想—没有付诸文字，只是停留在脑海里中的思想，犹如那狂风中的轻吟，不会留下半点痕迹因而变得毫无价值。。。

鼓励读书笔记—不过因为要给他人看懂，那个commitment可不是自己随手涂鸦那么简单的事情了。。。I have to say that watch what you wish for. 我发现自己的读书生涯中得到的一个经验就是-星换斗移，而那些在我思绪中仍然闪光的正是那些我有感而发留下的读书笔记。至于其他的书籍，犹如百代过客，往日情人，有些也只略记得一些皮毛而已。。。

[edrifter]

回复旁白的评论:

谢谢旁白！被你说得脸都白了。:))

很惭愧， 到现在还没有一篇像样的读书心得，更谈不上学识渊博。不过，能有几个情投意合的朋友，大家一起经常交流切磋，是最惬意不过的事情了。

[edrifter]

回复melly的评论:

Thank you so much for the nice words, melly! We all learn from each other, thoughts, knowledge, feeling, sentiment, etc.

Actully I have to thank you, seriously: you're the one who brought up that discussion of Forrest Gump, and that's how & when I started my bloging. If not were you, I might be still drifting around without a "home." :))

[edrifter]

回复苏乡门地的评论:

谢谢苏乡的鼓励！：））

我想写博客大概有两个目的：一是自娱，表达本身就是目的；二是与人沟通，从其它人那里寻求回应和知音。如果只是为了自娱的话，至于用什麽语言并不那么重要，只要是自己方便（像我打中文比蜗牛还慢，有时为了方便就打英文了）能达到自我宣泄的目的就可以了。但如果是意在与人交流，在中文网站用中文写作肯定是有绝对优势了。好在北美中文网站的大多数读者应该都是双语的了，应该不是太大的问题。

[旁白]

太好了! 你这地方一直就洋溢着书香味….只是觉得你的学识特别的渊博!

我是从你的阿拉斯加的文章开始的….

谢谢你能和我们分享!

[melly]

I have been entertained and educated through your blog since I visited for the first time. Talking with you about the movie "forrest gump" is still vivid in my mind. I believe I will keep enjoying and learning here, no matter which language you use. Looking forward.

[苏乡门地]

有位好友曾对我说他一直想写博，但犹豫是用中文还是英文，
我当时有点不理解，现在知道那不是他犹豫的真正原因。

想用英文来说“赞一个”，可又说不好，只好说go on, pls! :))