If you want to gain some skills or methods about life through reading, if you only have the action of "reading", the efficiency may not be so high, and the best result may be "output".
The so-called output includes applying it to your own practice and truly turning what you have learned into your own; It also includes sharing with others what you have learned in your own language. Learning to share after reading a good book is a kind of re-learning and practice, and knowledge will become your meta-knowledge and your own things. More likely, you will get more friends and build a broad circle of friends and even business circles. That's how Luo Ji started playing.
So, when we finish reading a good book, how can we share it with others? In this era of information explosion and numerous platforms, text book review is a good carrier. Of course, it would be better if it could be made into a talk show video like Pang Luo. To this end, I specially studied Luo Ji's previous recommendation of good books, as well as the book review articles of authors who recommended good books on Douban, such as Venzel, Mole's Potato, Bai, Zhang Hide, etc., and found that good book reviews have the following characteristics.
1, why write this book review?
If you read a good book and want to share it with others, then you can start writing a book review, and its focus is on that book. If you touch your heart because of a book, and you want to record your thoughts and feelings and share them with others, then the focus is on your inner feelings, not the book itself, and what comes out in the end may be the feelings after reading.
Book review is different from reading. The main task of post-reading feeling is not to judge the value of books, but to record personal feelings, thoughts and understanding after reading a book; It centers on readers' psychological activities, not on the books they read; In writing, it is usually expressed around a certain point of the reading object, almost without considering the overall situation of the book, or even just taking the reading object as an introduction, and then talking about its feelings and feelings. Readers who read your thoughts may not need to read this book as an introduction at all.
2. What influence does this book have on you?
This question is about the reason why you want to recommend someone to read a book most. It may help you, and you think it may also help others. For example, after reading "The Lovely Curse", I feel that I often encounter similar visiting problems in consulting work, which is a good self-help book, so I wrote "Nothing else, you just don't love yourself: are you a virgin?" (You can click to read it directly).
The purpose of a good book review is to catch the reader's attention and make them have an eager desire to read the book. So before you start, ask yourself:
1. What is the theme of this book? Why does it attract me?
2. Compared with similar books, what are the characteristics of this book? Do they have sex?
3. What is the value of this book to you? Are these values meaningful to others or to whom?
For example, the book Learn to Learn lists the essence of 16 famous people's reading and learning skills, which is very representative and useful, so I wrote "The value of a diploma is not as good as a movie ticket | Learn to Learn" (you can click to read it directly).
How should a good book review be evaluated? Summarizing Luo Pang's comments and recommendations in Luo Ji Thinking, I suggest that you can roughly divide them into three steps: introduction-evaluation-recommendation.
"Introduction" refers to a concise summary of the contents of the book, so that readers have a general understanding of the contents of the book.
"Evaluation" can be a summary of the book, a bird's-eye comment, or a comment focusing on the details of the work. When evaluating works, we should not only pay attention to the objectivity of evaluation, but also pay attention to the originality of views.
"Recommendation" is the end of the book review, which means that a good book is liked by readers.
1. Start with a vivid prologue: reveal the author's name, title and brief information about the author in one or two short paragraphs, such as past works, honors won and the author's special status. To read a good book, you need to know the author's academic background and professional background. It is the best key for you to understand a book.
2. If it is a non-academic book, such as a novel, it is necessary to make a brief overview of the plot, so that readers can roughly understand what the story is, but it should not be too spoiler and annoying; If the work is not a novel, it is a better way to state the purpose and theme of writing.
The author should evaluate the merits and demerits of this book as objectively as possible, but don't have his own opinions.
There is a concluding sentence paragraph, which gives readers an overall impression of this book, just like you are introducing a good girl and a good boy to your friends. How to make friends interested in getting to know you is a test for you.
Try to mention the book title at the beginning, middle and end of the book review, because since you are recommending it, it is very necessary to mention it more, especially to leave a space for it in an important position in writing. The author of the book will certainly appreciate your intention, and the search engine will also show due "concern" for your book review. Of course, don't mention too much. That will make your book reviews look like advertisements and make people lose interest in reading.
6. Try to introduce book distribution companies and publishing companies, because the quality of different book distribution and publishing companies is different, especially the level of translators and translators is very different. For example, Wang Xiaobo highly praised Wang Daoqian's version of The Lover, which he thought was the ultimate level of China's translation of novels. Moreover, starting from different publishing companies may open the wonderful door for readers to read. For example, I like reading books on psychology. Personally, I prefer books published by Wanqian Psychology, Houlang and Zhan Lu Culture, which is also a way to find high-quality books.
Finally, while reading, take notes on good content and write down comments that may be elaborated after reading. You will be surprised to find that having a pen at hand when reading will make your understanding more profound. Have you got the skills of how to recommend a good book to your friends after reading it? Well, have you read any good books recently? Remember to recommend it to me.