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!