走進了閱讀世界，你就是幸福的

泉港一中     麥春華

“疏食飲水，子安知我不樂？荷鋤而讀，吾正欲濟乎滄?！边@是我自撰的一副對聯，用來勉勵自己。

讀書是我從小到大一直沒有丟棄的興趣，大學畢業時，同學問我有什么愿望，我說最好能當一輩子的讀書人?？此苹恼Q不經，卻在數年之后斷斷續續依然伴隨于我?！扒心嗫嘧穼?，但種因，勿問果，待到驀然回首時，燈火闌珊處即是天涯?！?/span>

有幸認識黃教授，向他面對面取經學習，無意中我包里的一本英語讀物引起他的注意。他問我怎么讀英文小說，我說：“和幾個朋友約定，走到哪有時間就讀到哪，每天定量完成閱讀任務?！?/span>

工作也罷，工作侵占了個人消遣時間也罷，忙忙碌碌的工作之余，驚訝地發現，手機的便攜化，導致社交媒體無孔不入，幾乎占用了我一大半的碎片化時間。于是，幾個相同愛好的朋友一商量，一個小小的讀書線上沙龍就初具雛形。

該沙龍以微信朋友圈為媒介建群，招募原版英語閱讀的愛好者。設群的初衷是督促每個群成員利用碎片化時間，每個成員每天完成30頁原版文學閱讀，并及時上線記錄當天的完成情況，同時對當天閱讀做一個簡要的概括性個性化英文總結，內容不限，字數不限。另外，線上群友之間，交流分享閱讀體會，線下易書，互通有無，好不樂乎。目前群成員28人，涉及各個行業，有在校大學生、外貿業務員、英語教師、以及慕名進群的英語學習愛好者等等，其中在校英語教師居多。建群一年有余，群友已分享的讀物內容豐富，涉及小說，詩歌，演講集，自傳等等，多為英語國家現當代流行篇目，語言較為樸實、簡易。由于時間久了，所讀書目記不全，現把新近群里聊天記錄的部分書歸納如下：

Selected Poems of W. B. Yeats with Chinese Translations by Fu Hao（《葉芝詩選》，1.5萬詞）

Heart Beat by Sharon Creech（《心跳》，3萬詞）

Not that Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham（《不是那種女孩》，15萬詞）

Robinson Cruson by Daniel Defoe（《魯濱遜漂流記》，9萬詞）

Applied Geography by L. Dudley Stamp（《應用地理》，10萬詞）

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.（《秘密花園》，10萬詞）

January First by Michael Schofield（《一月一日》，8萬詞）

The Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James（《50度灰》，16萬詞）

The Fifty Shades of Darker by E.L James（《50度黑》，16萬詞）

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee（《殺死一只知更鳥》，11萬詞）

Ferryman by Claire Mcfall（《擺渡人》，9萬詞）

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte（《呼嘯山莊》，4萬詞）

The Wind Willows by Nancy Barnhart （《柳林風聲》，5萬詞）

Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye by Lois Lowry（《找尋一個陌生人說再見》，5萬詞）

If I should die by Judith Kelman（《萬一我死去》，10萬詞）

The Red Herring by Sally Spencer（《紅色手提包》，10萬詞）

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift（《格列佛游記》，4萬詞）

Christmas in Gamelot by Mary Pope Osborne（《魔法國的圣誕節》，2.5萬詞）

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger（《麥田里的守望者》，16萬詞）

其中，Michael Schofield寫的一書January First，超過5位群友共同閱讀過，所以討論較為廣泛，現摘選2位群友的讀后感：

Wow...I couldn’t put this book down...however...while my heart breaks for this family, I couldn’t help but get this skeevy feeling that this father is very comfortable in his “martyr” role. And it also seemed that he AND his wife might have mental issues of their own that have contributed to their daughters problems. After finishing it, I searched around on the internet and found some very interesting things. One is the fathers blog started several years ago. In between updates on his daughter are rambling messages about movies and other random things as well as solicitations for money to help his family pay the rent. They have pimped her story out to all kinds of media outlets including major newspapers, Oprah, etc. Mom has gotten herself a radio show. And there is 5 part web documentary on YouTube that disturbs me too in that it seems everyone is acting for the cameras. Now they are saying their younger son is schizophrenic too. It is like they are making careers out of their children’s mental illnesses....The more I read about and watch this family, the more I am convinced that there is a psychiatric Munchhausen-By-Proxy going on here. —From Yoyo

From the moment I started reading this book, I couldn’t put it down—almost started and finished it within the same day (if only life didn’t get in the way!). I was fascinated with the ugly world of Schizophrenia. Told in a loosely written diary format, we follow Michael Schofield as he lives with his five year old daughter- January, and tries to figure out what is causing her bouts with madness. The struggles this family had to face not only with their daughter losing control of her surroundings, but also having another baby which causes Jani undue distress, and reading about the lack of support the health care system has when it comes to mental health snatched my sympathy. I was just as frustrated as Michael was with the hospitals that couldn't understand what was wrong with Jani. The school system couldn’t handle Jani’s outbursts. What is a parent to do in these circumstances? I’m not sure if I could hold it together as well as Michael and Susan seemed to do.

The only downside for me was how selfish at times Michael seemed. He was quick to blame Susan for things that she wasn't responsible for. While this constantly frustrated me, I did appreciate the honesty of Michael admitting this to the readers at times. Maybe that makes him a stronger narrator? Not sure – but was frustrated with him and how he handled situations at times. Then I have to remember this is his REAL life and who am I to judge? —From Linda

至此，群內閱讀氣氛良好，交流活躍，一部分群友能夠堅持每天讀書。原版閱讀涉及歷史，宗教等背景，如何選擇適合自己閱讀能力的讀物，避開詞匯難度太大的作品以免挫傷閱讀體驗感，也許每個人的答案不一。但是，只要朝著這條文學閱讀的道路走下去，我相信群內每個英語學習愛好者或多或少有些收獲。我，作為一線英語教師，期望通過長期的閱讀，建立個性化書目，并開設一門校本課程，引導高中生課外學習。這種非功利性的閱讀，如果恰好能有一天為我的職業生涯開啟了一扇窗，那我會多么的喜悅和幸福??！