Choice Readers@cafe

もっと気軽に、リラックスした雰囲気の中でペーパーバックを
皆で読み、話す、そんな集まりを開くことになりました。

1. 気軽にペーパーバックを読む習慣をつけたい。
2. Chrisの土曜日のスケジュールが４月から大幅に変わる。
3. フレキシブルに、費用をミニマムにして、兎に角継続する。

といった理由から変更に踏み切りました。

ファシリテーター役からは、これまでの経験や学びからアドバイス
もしますが、できるだけ皆さんの自発的な読書や思いの共有に
時間をかけるようにしていきます。

もちろん、ちょっとしたコツなどを含めたり、DVDで理解を
深めたり。。。こんなグループにご興味のあるかたは是非、
お知らせください！

お待ちしています！

Your first dose of Medicine & Culture

Hello, everybody. I hope you're coping with the heat.
Choice Readers will meet again in two weeks (August 27).

Our target is page 73, which is a little less than half, but the first half contains all the
introductory parts before the chapter on "western" medicine in France.

In the second half (which we'll finish reading by October 1, I hope), the author
discusses "western" medicine in Germany, the UK, and the USA. The final
summing-up chapter before the notes  (which you do not have to read) is very
short. But that's where the comparisons get really
interesting and I think we'll want to talk about how "western" medicine is
practiced in Japan. We're all patients from time to time.

Don't look up everything, but highlight or stick post-its to the passages where
you had trouble ......

(The Choice Readers attendees will receive more details via its mailing list.)

Best regards,
Chris

Share the Reading Experience: What Choice Readers Offer

Christopher Holmes

I have always enjoyed reading, but it wasn't until late in life that I realized I should not feel guilty about reading fiction. Fiction is what is "not real," not true, I thought, but eventually I realized that, as many writers have said, fiction is the lie that tells the truth.


I also sometimes thought that while I was reading, I was not "living," but there, too, I was wrong: my life is the sum of my thoughts and experiences, and the fiction writer (just as any other writer) shares an experience with me when I read a book. In a sense, I feel most alive when I'm reading. Don't you love reading, too?


But there is another sense in which we can share an experience through a book, and that is when people who have read the same book talk about it together.That is what I hope to do through Choice Readers with Mitsuko Okamoto at Chiyoda Platform Square. Don't you want to share your thoughts about what you've read with fellow readers?


Choice Readers is not for learning the ABCs of English or for test preparation, it's for enrichment, for making your life more rewarding, for learning how to live better in a world full of crises. Choice Readers is for reading, for discussion, for the exchange and exploration of ideas. Will you take up the challenge of reading, listening, and discussing with Choice Readers a variety of books, both fiction and nonfiction?


Each meeting, each class, will have a book in English as a topic. There will be an initial presentation on the book and its issues. Whether you read the book or listen to it as an audio book, all our discussion in the classroom will be in English. Don't you want to use and improve your English communication skills?


Join Choice Readers, and you will have chances to broaden your horizons, use what you have learned, discuss what you have read, and share ideas. By enriching our inner lives through reading and thinking, I believe we will come to better understand our world, with all its challenges and crises. What do you think? Will you join us?


Chris


クリストファー・ホルムズ
1952年アメリカ生まれ。大学在学中に交換留学制度を利用してヨーロッパに２年留学。大学卒業後フランスにて言語学と文学を学ぶ。その後来日。サイマル・インターナショナル社にて翻訳及び編集者となり、'86年から'99年までサイマルアカデミーの翻訳コースのインストラクターも勤める。'99年より国立大学医学部講師。