本の読み方 スロー・リーディングの実践 | Week 1 📚

本の読み方 スロー・リーディングの実践 | Week 1 :books:

Week 1 9 Nov 2024
Sections to read Foreword, prologue, part I up to and including 仕事・試験・面接にも役立つ
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I’m already on board with a lot of these ideas, and don’t need much convincing. I’m sure that’s true for most of us here. After all, reading in Japanese is one method of doing very attentive slow reading! Anyway, I’m looking forward to getting into the real meat of this book.

One part that piqued my interest:

In 仕事・試験・面接にも役立つ

なぜ、小林秀雄が選ばれているのか(読書経験豊富な人は、テストで小林秀雄を取り上げたくなるような人物として、問題制作者のイメージを大雑把に把握するだろう)

I really wish I were in the know! I haven’t read this author and I have no idea what kind of person chooses his work to make test questions out of, but I’m really curious.

My favorite new vocabulary word was しどろもどろ.

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I dunno, some of the bits about people who count how many books they’ve read felt aimed in my direction :sweat_smile:

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:face_with_peeking_eye:

I agree with the idea of slow reading, but somewhere in me there’s this wish to read faster. There’s just so many books!
I kinda also still want to read 100 books a year at some point. Maybe this book will make me re-prioritize, who knows. :slight_smile:

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Haha! I see!

I definitely feel the desire to read a lot more books, especially since we’re blessed to live in a time of so many books! But I know that when I read quickly, I don’t take much in, and the books I most enjoy are usually ones that reward careful reading or rereading.

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I still need convincing. The author is trying the sell the idea of slow reading, but I am looking forward to between-the-lines 読み方 and subsequently 実践.

I don’t see that I have to choose between fast and slow. Quality may be important, but amount can’t be denied when required. (The remaining point is still also time allocation.)

Also not sure about foreign languages in general. Only if I can read Japanese as fast as my native language or English. The author can try to transform my native language or English reading, however.

Decently fast is also about re-reading and revisiting my childhood series in various variant forms, if talking about literature. Far from a series, at what cost to read a book?

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I thought the “consider the whole exam question including the text and the questions as a single thing written by the test-setter” was an interesting perspective. The underlying advice to think about what the examiner is looking for is common, but it’s an approach to that advice which was new to me.

Also I was surprised at 最近印象に残った本は? being described as 就職面接の定番 – I can’t really imagine that being something that comes up in a UK job interview, even for somebody straight out of school or education with no experience to discuss.

But I think mostly I’m waiting for the author to move on from “why” and on to “how”.

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Sad to think about how the part in the prologue about the overwhelm of information and needing media literacy to weed out fake news is even more true than when the author wrote that.

I’m definitely guilty of fast-reading and then realizing I didn’t properly pick sometime up, or feeling like I’m not really improving in Japanese as much as I should be for how much I’m reading (although ADHD does play a role too), so I am willing to read this with an open mind!
I thought the comparison of speed reading to traveling was apt.

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Persons and works

何か?
質へ
仕事も
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