關於【讀書劄記】的劄記

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]

回複北鶴的評論:

謝謝北鶴分享讀書經驗！講得很好。

也許讀書劄記就像散文一樣，應該是“形散而神不散”。有人習慣就書論書，有人可能會撇開書本身而引發出去談自己的感想，並不一定與書本身有內容上的關聯，各種形式，不一而足，隻要與書有關，隻要有思想有內容，都應該可以寫的好。

至於博客，我想可以概括出許多的特點，但最本質的特點應該是自由表達。從這個意義上講，如果把它當成一個 have to watch for 的 commitment，我覺得會變成一個負擔。當然，這隻是我個人的看法。

常來，大家多交流！

[北鶴]

寫下來的並且能夠傳遞的才可以叫做思想—沒有付諸文字，隻是停留在腦海裏中的思想，猶如那狂風中的輕吟，不會留下半點痕跡因而變得毫無價值。。。

鼓勵讀書筆記—不過因為要給他人看懂，那個commitment可不是自己隨手塗鴉那麽簡單的事情了。。。I have to say that watch what you wish for. 我發現自己的讀書生涯中得到的一個經驗就是-星換鬥移，而那些在我思緒中仍然閃光的正是那些我有感而發留下的讀書筆記。至於其他的書籍，猶如百代過客，往日情人，有些也隻略記得一些皮毛而已。。。

[edrifter]

回複旁白的評論:

謝謝旁白！被你說得臉都白了。:))

很慚愧， 到現在還沒有一篇像樣的讀書心得，更談不上學識淵博。不過，能有幾個情投意合的朋友，大家一起經常交流切磋，是最愜意不過的事情了。

[edrifter]

回複melly的評論:

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]

回複蘇鄉門地的評論:

謝謝蘇鄉的鼓勵！：））

我想寫博客大概有兩個目的：一是自娛，表達本身就是目的；二是與人溝通，從其它人那裏尋求回應和知音。如果隻是為了自娛的話，至於用什麽語言並不那麽重要，隻要是自己方便（像我打中文比蝸牛還慢，有時為了方便就打英文了）能達到自我宣泄的目的就可以了。但如果是意在與人交流，在中文網站用中文寫作肯定是有絕對優勢了。好在北美中文網站的大多數讀者應該都是雙語的了，應該不是太大的問題。

[旁白]

太好了! 你這地方一直就洋溢著書香味….隻是覺得你的學識特別的淵博!

我是從你的阿拉斯加的文章開始的….

謝謝你能和我們分享!

[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.

[蘇鄉門地]

有位好友曾對我說他一直想寫博，但猶豫是用中文還是英文，
我當時有點不理解，現在知道那不是他猶豫的真正原因。

想用英文來說“讚一個”，可又說不好，隻好說go on, pls! :))