Taking Notes On Pleasure Reading

[Strike For The South]

I used to have a diary for this sort of stuff, then at age 16 I gave it to the girl I had fallen in love with.

Only very recently in the last couple of years have I started to keep a "thought" notebook again.

Did she give it back when she broke your heart?

I have been thinking about keeping a journal. I have dozens of notepads laying around for certain books

[Rhyfelwyr]

I don't read because I prefer TV, it's just more relaxing.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Did she give it back when she broke your heart?

She did, as it happens. I destroyed it publically and dramatically, I was 16 and oddly it no longer embareses me.

Lesson learned, when I finally recovered I actually tried to tell the next one how I felt three years later.

Lesson learned, I gave up.

I have been thinking about keeping a journal. I have dozens of notepads laying around for certain books

I didn't find it that useful to be honest, finding stuff to write becomes arbitery, if you write regularly you eventually end up creating a tome of your innermost feelings and realising you've been in love with Jean all these years but she doesn't feel the same.

I actually don't think that kind of self-reflection is healthy, you're better talking to a real person. On the other hand, I have a notebook for when I actually want to write something, be it a few lines of poetry or twelve systematic rules for practising good lay theology.

[HoreTore]

If I don't remember a book, I read it again.

You always discover something new when you reread a book you read years ago.




Also, you're all nerds for reading books. Rhy is cool though.

[HopAlongBunny]

Kralizec basically summed up my experience. My Uni notes were so thorough ppl would photocopy them instead of reading the book, which was fine by me.

Pleasure reading is usually different though. The act of reading and visualizing the story is hard to "capture" in notes. Some philosophy and history books I will make marginal notes so I can keep track of arguments or events as they develop.