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本期想跟大家聊一下文学阅读。

随着时间流逝，我也在逐渐适应疫情带来的隔离生活。虽然新闻上英国的疫情愈发严重，死亡病例数字急剧攀升，但我的生活其实并没有那种恐怖氛围的感受。每天都差不多，除了户外天气越来越暖和，周围环境似乎没什么变化，我也好像一个变成了一个隐士一样。但这期间，我意识到了一个自身很严重的问题—--缺少文学阅读。

说实话，我并非一个热爱阅读的狂热分子，虽然现在每年的阅读量也可以保持在六，七本小说的样子，但实际上我从来没有养成一个从小读书的习惯。仔细想想，大概是在七年级的时候，我的阅读量才有所提升。当时我们是为了研究乔治·奥威尔的《动物农场》，一开始只是出于好奇，因为这本书只有200页，属于短篇小说，结果读完之后便一发不可收拾，真的喜欢上了这本书。

在这之前，我读的大部分书籍都属于儿童类文学，这些书纯粹是为了孩子而做，很单纯，也没有什么特殊的意图，更没有什么政治哲学动机，也就图个轻松愉悦。所以这也导致后来接触到的那些反乌托邦和现实主义的书让我大开眼界，尽管这些故事可能有点黑暗，哲学思想也有点晦涩，但我真的很喜欢。奥威尔成了我最喜欢的作家之一。这期间，我还读了司各特的《了不起的盖茨比》，有趣的故事背后反映了对社会的深思，那些光鲜亮丽的美国梦背后隐藏着多少阴暗、虚假。这本书是我迄今为止最喜欢的一部小说，我已经读了四遍，但每次看都会萌生不同的感想。

我现在的阅读习惯还跟八年级时候一样，读那些经典名著，或者老师推荐的一些书。后来我又读了狄更斯，最近也在看阿加莎·克莉丝蒂的波洛系列小说。阿加莎的侦探小说看起来非常有意思，可以作为读奥威尔跟狄更斯时候的一种调节。

阅读极大的打开了我的思维，也在逐渐培养我对于历史跟政治的兴趣。鉴于现在自己的阅读能力跟水平都有待提高，还不能说自己是一个“狂热的读者”，但是，阅读确实改变了我的生活，让我有了动力去努力汲取更多的知识。

Jack

英文版

Quarantine is somehow getting normal to me, the blurred indefinable days is getting into some sort of a routine and although with numbers climbing steeply, I can't really feel the intensity around me as Britain starts to approach the peak of infections and death. Every week all seemed the same, the surrounding is hardly changing, except for the days getting longer and warmer, and I am slowly but surely adapting to the hermit lifestyle. But still, even getting used to staying at home, I have just realised a big drawback to all the quarantine- lack of literature. 

To be completely honest, I have never been a very avid reader; although I now I do read around half a dozen novels every year, I've never been really into reading form a young age. This aside, I think I really started to read more when I was in year seven and year eight; at the time, we were about to study a book called "Animal Farm" by George Orwell and just out of curiosity, I got the book thinking it would be a good short read as was only around two hundred pages long. And I really enjoyed it. 

You see, before this, all the books I read were children's novels or of a similar kind. These books are designed purely to create a story for the child to blissfully enjoy but have no meaning or intentions behind it. There aren't any political or philosophical motives or ideas behind the novel and the books were wrote purely for its story, not for any reflection of the real world; and even those stories, were of the very lighthearted and unrealistic ones. Dystopian and realism was an eye-opener for me, although the story is dark and is filled with lots of philosophical ideas, I really enjoyed it and Orwell became one of my favourite authors. Along this time, I also discovered the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott. Fitzgerald; the book was so interesting, both the storyline and the social reflections behinds it- the pursuit and the darker side of the 'American Dream', it became my favourite novel by far; I even read it four times, each time with a different approach.

Till now, my book choice is still very much the same as the one I had in year eight: the classics or recommendations from teachers. Now I read more Dickens and recently quite a lot of Agatha Christie's Poirot series as although they are written just for the story, the detective novels are extremely pleasant to read and are a great way to readjust after a long Orwell's or Dickens novel. 

Reading had opened my eyes to many fabulous ideas and theologies, even my interest in politics and history is somewhat due to reading these classics. Although I can't really call myself an "avid reader" as I still need much determination to read every week and finish a novel in an acceptable time, reading had really changed my life and made me into more educated and informed human being. 

Jack

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