既然是读书贴，那就先让我们一起来重温一下英国著名哲学家弗兰西斯·培根所写的《谈读书》（英文名：Of Studies。中文译文：王佐良）。
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert and execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best form those that are learned.
读书足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以长才。其怡情也，最见于独处幽居之时；其傅彩也，最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。练达之士虽能分别处理细事或一一判别枝节，然纵观统筹，全局策划，则舍好学深思者莫属。
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar.
读书费时过多易惰，文采藻饰太盛则矫，全凭条文断事乃学究故态。
They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning (pruning) by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
读书补天然之不足，经验又补读书之不足，盖天生才干犹如自然花草，读书然后知如何修剪移接，而书中所示，如不以经验范之，则又大而无当。
Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
有一技之长者鄙读书，无知者羡读书，唯明智之士用读书，然书并不以用处告人，用书之智不在书中，而在书外，全凭观察得之。
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
读书时不可存心诘难读者，不可尽信书上所言，亦不可只为寻章摘句，而应推敲细思。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。换言之，有只需读其部分者，有只须大体涉猎者，少数则须全读，读时须全神贯注，孜孜不倦。
Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.
书亦可请人代读，取其所作摘要，但只限题材较次或价值不高者，否则书经提炼犹如水经蒸馏，淡而无味。
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
读书使人充实，讨论使人机智，笔记使人准确。因此不常做笔记者须记忆力特强，不常讨论者须天生聪颖，不常读书者须欺世有术，始能无知而显有知。
Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in morse. (Studies pass into the character.)
读史使人明智，读诗使人灵秀，数学使人周密，科学使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑修辞之学使人善辩；凡有所学，皆成性格。
Nay there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head; and the like.
人之才智但有滞碍，无不可读适当之书使之顺畅，一如身体百病，皆可借相宜之运动除之。滚球利睾肾，射箭利胸肺，慢步利肠胃，骑术利头脑，诸如此类。
So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cyminisectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
如智力不集中，可令读数学，盖演题需全神贯注，稍有分散即须重演；如不能辩异，可令读经院哲学，盖是辈皆吹毛求疵之人；如不善求同，不善以一物阐证另一物，可令读律师之案卷。如此头脑中凡有缺陷，皆有特效可医。

现在跟大家分享一下俺2017年1月的书目：
1. Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People. （ 戴尔·卡内基著《如何赢取友谊与影响他人》，又译《人性的弱点》）
2. 钱钟书，《写在人生边上》。
这两本书都是老书，俺很久以前读过，现在打算重温一下经典。俺会边读边写些心得与大家分享。
大家也来晒一晒你们一月份的读书目录吧。

我来了

谢谢同桌。你简直是满满的正能量啊。期待你的读书笔记和其他朋友们的分享。
先说一下我为什么今年打算读书吧。
1 回顾过去的10几年，除了为了考试而读的专业书籍，我读的其他书很少。网络的发达让我花了大量时间在网上，结果就是资讯接受了不少但思考很少，进步很小。所以今年打算减少网上的时间，多花些时间在阅读上，让大脑再 active 起来。
2 最近跟了几个微信公众号，看到他们每年的读书计划都是50本以上。相比之下，我简直汗颜啊。50做不到。今年计划36本。
3 我读书的另外一个目的是学英文。所以以读英文书为主。新年的第一本书是 ＂How Google Works", 儿子买的书，我拿来读读。

一直以来都是喜欢纸质的书籍，抗拒网络的，因为闻不到书香。但又花费了大量时间在网络上，尤其做了瓶盖后。没设定目标但一直持续不断，因为坚信读书会使女人更秀慧。最近在读高晓松的晓说。

说来我的想法可能有点，特别，我想读，，，，字典!

可能是因为怕遗忘了本真吧！我想找回那些最初原本的含义，所以我想读字典。

正在读的一本书籍《哲学的历史》，讲述的哲学的起源，与宗教的关系，哲学的发展，与文学、自然科学的关系，进展很慢，还没读完，内容抽象难懂，完成它像完成任务一样，但既然选择了，还是要坚持读完

准备读保罗·柯艾略的《维罗妮卡决定去死》

进了这帖真是一时感慨万千，睡意全消。感谢父母让我出身在上海的老洋房里，虽然几户同住但从小就享受到璃芭墙，假山，草坪，打蜡地板，钢窗，火炉，马赛克的卫生间(几户共用)。慢慢的长大，城市道路的变迁，婚后生活的改变我就搬进了商品房，再也买不起老洋房了。但心底一直挥不去老洋房情节，所以喜欢读上海作家程乃姗，张爱玲，王安义的作品较多。到了墨尔本后竟然还是喜欢老洋房，寻寻觅觅后买的第一套房竟有上百年的历史(澳洲历史实在太短)。喜欢陈逸飞后爱上了江南水乡的小河小石桥小石路，喜欢枕着小河在小客栈安睡，早晨被小船上的嘻笑声吵醒，拿本书去小河边小店看一上午，中午吃一两个简单农家菜，很喜欢这样的生活。现在上海附近这样的水乡越来越多，周围也盖了不少房子但我还是喜欢老房子，近年一直在找，想买一个哪怕一间，太喜欢了。可以说张爱玲的小说影响了我一生。

先顶后看

我还在啃《亲密关系》，最近进度有些慢。

果然开卷有益。今天只读了＂How Google Works" 的第一章就收获多多。取2点和大家分享。
1 书里强调了在现在这个互联网高速发展的时代，用户比以前任何时候都容易获取信息，因此优质产品（product excellence )是现在企业成功的关键，并引用了 亚马逊的 CEO 说的话：＂以前企业把30%的精力用来作产品，然后70%的精力用来广告，但是现在不同了，必须反过来。
2 另一个有趣的观点就是人人都是企业家。企业管理的理念也可以用来管理人生。

真的是好帖子啊！我小时候就喜欢金庸的武侠小说，国外名著最喜欢傲慢与偏见，红与黑，简爱，茶花女。现在想想，当时浪费了好多时间，正儿八经有用的书籍没有读多少。