"How long has it been since you read a book?" When asked how many books they read a year, perhaps most people would say "probably how many books?" As the pace of life becomes faster and faster, it becomes a luxury to read a book at a fixed time. At present, a kind of reading club in the form of "talking with you overnight, better than reading a book for ten years" has quietly emerged in Tianjin.
Every Sunday afternoon, book friend "April" basically spends three hours to come to the North Maker Center in People's Park to participate in the offline reading club, she said, this is a more spiritual pleasure than eating delicious food, "Reading is a very personal thing, but the exchange will get a wonderful experience, the collision of ideas, the feeling of meeting opponents." April describes why she has been attending the book club. In her view, this social form is a breath of fresh air in the fast-paced and fragmented living environment. April remembers that the topic of the first time she participated in an offline reading club was "how do I read 200 books a year?", "At that time, I felt that we 'Xiaobai', who only read a few books a year, should come to learn more and see that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the world." Today, April reads one or two books a month, which is not a lot among book lovers, but it is still a lot of gains. She said that she was more interested in literary books before, and rarely dabbled in history and politics, "until I read "The Biography of Liang Qichao", and then came to a city walk of Liang Qichao's former residence, you will feel that those words are little by little concretized in front of your eyes." At the same time, she also mentioned that this month's reading club organized book friends to read "Warring States Policy" together, although looking at the thick books was both awe and awe, but in the sharing of book friends, when I walked into the museum again, I had a new understanding of those cold bronzes.
Book friends visit the ice room according to the content of "The Biography of Liang Qichao".
In the era of information explosion and information fragmentation, reading is an efficient way to break through and the lowest cost of growth. She said that the reading club will select a book every month to recommend as a co-reading work, and invite experts or interested book friends to serve as reading teachers. This month, she served as the lead reader of the Chu Ce part of "Warring States Policy", "There are only twenty or thirty pages of content in the original work, and I need to read at least 100,000 words, summarize the outline of about 20,000 words, and take everyone to read it." In response to the discussion of details, "Jingxi" still remembers that when talking about the Warring States Period, when the vertical and horizontal families preached the combination of vertical and horizontal, some book friends mentioned that it was like the current business war, and there was a feeling that history was shining into reality at that time, "Due to everyone's different occupations, the perspective of looking at the problem is not the same, there are freelancers, teachers, sales staff, company white-collar workers, and even blue-collar workers involved, different interpretations let us read the book thin and thick." ”
Book friend "Running Bike" is the founder of Tianjin's more active reading club, the Yue Reading Club. In his opinion, similar souls can be met in the book club. So in 2016, he and his partners established this reading interest group, "At first, there were only more than 30 people in the group, limited to a small range of acquaintances and friends, but by the next day it had grown to more than 100 people, and now there are more than 3,000 book friends at home and abroad." Monthly reading, offline exchanges, lectures by famous teachers, cultural tourism, art interest learning and other contents have made many book lovers find the same interests here. "6,000 people have participated in the reading activity, and we have read a total of 154 books in the past few years, including humanities and social sciences, history, psychology, management, and classics of Chinese culture......
At present, there are many various forms of reading clubs in Tianjin, involving different readers, reading books, and topics, including research psychology, mothers exchanging parenting experiences, blind dates, and many relying on bookstores...... In the view of "running a bicycle", the threshold for doing a book club is not high, "There are many such organizations, which will more or less affect and drive some people to start reading, which is a good thing." In the future, he hopes that in the cultural sites of the streets and communities, the self-organized reading clubs can use the existing book resources to hold activities, so that the habit of reading will remain with the citizens. At the same time, he also hopes to connect with more celebrity lectures to attract more partners of the same frequency, so that everyone can find a new meaning of reading with book friends.
(Jinyun News reporter Wang Jingyi, picture provided by the interviewee)