三月份读书会纪事 3/9/2011

星期三小雨稀稀拉拉下了一整天，到了傍晚几乎有些疲惫，厌倦了，停了。湿漉的天气并没有妨碍大家的兴致，晚上六点半刚过不久，刘老师就早早地到了，等候在车里。进屋后，她从包里拿出一个大大的柚子和几个柑橘，分派任务给我们几个来得早的，把皮剥掉，分份，好让大家到来后分享。然后她稳稳地坐在圆桌的端头，打开笔记本。 这时大家陆续到来，最后一个进来的是踏着点儿来的。雪和Alice因故无法出席，少了两个姐妹，屋子显得空旷了一些。

我们吃着甜甜的四川柚，还有紫罗兰带来的小吃，老牛的美式面， 在这样一个星期三的傍晚，开始了对《相约星期二》的讨论。

刘老师坐在圆桌的首端，颇有主持人的派头，她的开场白很简约，问题也很简单明了，关键是调动大家的积极性。

大家从书中受到启发，得到鼓舞，读书的目的起到了正面的作用，看到大家的反应甚是让人高兴，在此感谢刘老师及Frank.

Tony Judt - a teacher, a historian, falling to ALS

“It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of 60 by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck.” The lucky man of whom Tony Judt wrote was Judt himself, paralysed from the neck down from amyotropic lateral sclerosis, a variant of motor neurone disease. Diagnosed in 2008,Judt died of the illness at the age of 62 in August of this year. From the onset of the disease to May 2010, when he wrote The Memory Chalet, he produced “a small political book, a public lecture, some 20 feuilletons reflecting on my life, and a considerable body of interviews directed toward a full-scale study of the 20th century.” Trapped in a body in rapid decline, Judt’s brilliant mind had never been more active.

Lessons On Living (with Ted Koppel)

Lessons on Living with Ted Koppel part 1

Lessons on Living with Ted Koppel part 2

Lessons on Living with Ted Koppel part 3

Lessons on Living with Ted Koppel part 4

Lessons on Living with Ted Koppel part 5

Lessons on Living with Ted Koppel part 6

Lessons on Living with Ted Koppel part 7

Lessons on Living with Ted Koppel part 8

Lessons on Living with Ted Koppel part 9

《相约星期二》

Request: everybody should answer all questions. Please list your answers with your initial below each question or below others' answers if there is any. Thank you.

Aslo, if you have better questions, or if you have any question you are seeking for answers, or whatever you want to share, please!

1. 列出你最想与大家分享的信息：

a. 关于书 -

b. 关于作者 -

c. 关于主人公 -


2. 列出你最喜欢和最想与大家分享的句子，短语，或/和段落:

3. 你最喜欢那一/几课？喜欢什么？

4. 你最不喜欢那一/几课？为什么？

5. 读完了这本书，你是否多了一些智慧或/和认知去面对现实和未来？假如是，能和大家分享吗？

To die with dignity/To live with dignity = 死有尊严/活有尊严

Reading is underway! Everyone will have lots to say.

《同是漂泊》--读《河湾》有感

跟上个月的读书会比，昨天晚上的聚会要平和，畅快得多：-）首先感谢大家的积极参与，水竹老师的认真准备。

每次会后总觉得还有些废话要说。如果大家也想进一步讨论，我就先抛砖了：

萨林姆是无根的浮萍，他离乡背井，为的是追寻过好日子的梦。作为一个“局外人”，他没有归属感，游离于多种文化的边缘上。在特定的非洲历史背景下，他既没有根，也没有家，永远寻寻觅觅。失望、迷茫、悲观和绝望一直伴随着他。

我们同是追梦人，多年以前从不同的角落漂泊到这个中西部的小镇。我们似乎幸运一些，淡淡的像水一样的生活使我们免去了萨林姆面对的忧虑。然而我们总是“外乡人”，“认同”只是一种臆想。我们且永远是边缘人。

Some songs of Joan Baez

Barbara Allen
We shall over come
Where have All The Flowers Gone
Sweet low, Sweet chariot
Amazing Grace
Blowing in the wind