Lev tolstoy said: "The ideal book is the key to wisdom." In order to make the ideal book the key to people's wisdom, it is often necessary to use book reviews to let more people know about it, love it and make friends with it. Mr. Ye Shengtao, a famous educator and writer in China, vividly summarized the role of book review in the article "Give children more extracurricular reading". He said: "When an excellent review article is published, good reading is like having wings and flying to the window of the reader's mind, waiting to be welcomed. Newspapers and periodicals have the obligation to make good reading grow wings. "

What is a book review? Reading a book or an article and writing your feelings and opinions into an article is a "book review". So, how can we write a good book review?

First of all, we should read the preface and postscript of a book carefully. Preface and postscript are important parts of a book. After reading it, you can have a general understanding of the content of this book. The preface of some books is written by the author himself, mainly about the purpose and process of writing books. The preface of some books is written by others (mostly experts in a certain field) entrusted by the author, mainly to introduce or evaluate the content and characteristics of the book. The preface of some books is actually the nature of the preface, and the postscript of some books is actually similar to the postscript. The preface is usually placed before the text of the book, and some are placed after the text. For example, the preface written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Han Dynasty, for his masterpiece Historical Records is placed at the end of Historical Records. Foreword and postscript are reading guides, so be sure to read book reviews.

Secondly, learn to write a summary. Han Yu, an essayist in the Tang Dynasty, said: "Those who remember stories must mention their essentials, and those who make up stories must hook their mysteries." It means: for books that record things, we should master their essence, and for books that explain truth, we should explore their essence. "When reading, you should learn to briefly summarize the main contents and ideas of the book in your own words after deeply understanding the basic ideas and spiritual essence of the original work. When writing a book review, it is impossible to repeat the original content from beginning to end. If you learn to write a summary, you can better grasp the theme of the work, and the book review will be "targeted" rather than irrelevant. Therefore, practicing writing executive summary is very beneficial to improve your comprehensive and generalization ability.

Third, we should connect with reality. After reading a book, you may have a lot of feelings and gains, so you should grasp the most touching place in the book and write your true feelings and sentiments in combination with your own thoughts and experiences. For example, the article "I Love Hongyan" written by Wu Lan, a senior high school student attached to Jiangxi Normal University, won the first prize of national middle school students' book review and essay writing in Shanxi language teaching and communication. Judging from the connection between "I" and "Hongyan", the article is closely linked with the word "love". First, I wrote "Red Rock" as "my favorite book", and then I described in detail the reasons why I like it-"Or this book gave me the strength to move forward and the courage to live". The author tells the story of his childhood misfortune, analyzes the shock caused by several main protagonists in the book Red Rock, such as Hua, Jie Jiang and Xiao Luobotou, recalls his mother's teachings, and finally makes a summary.

Finally, be independent. As the ancients said, "If you don't learn, there is no doubt, if you don't ask, there will be no accumulation." Zhu, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, said: "Those who learn without doubt will be taught to have doubts, and those who have doubts will have no doubts. Only here can they make progress. " Think more and be good at asking questions when reading. On the basis of a correct understanding of the original intention, you should analyze and compare your own views with those in the book, then question and express your new views. For example, there is an essay in the Chinese textbook of senior high school called "The Three Centennial Festival of Shen Jia" written by Comrade Guo Moruo, which is a novel, literary and emotional prose. Ding Shaohua, a student of No.1 Middle School in Wulanhaote, Inner Mongolia, wrote a book review after reading it. The article makes a deep and concrete analysis of the killing of Yan Li by Li Zicheng mentioned by Lao Guo, and puts forward different views. He thinks that Li Zicheng made a double mistake by killing Yan Li. In order to demonstrate this central argument, the author made various "hypotheses", and then demonstrated them one by one, pointing out that Li Zicheng not only believed Niu Jinxing's slanderous remarks, but also rashly killed a person who should not have been killed, "which especially cast a tragic color on his own mistakes", and finally concluded that Li Zicheng's killing of Yan Li was "short-sighted and unwise". Ding Shaohua's book review advocates novelty and difference, and advocates not being greedy for perfection. In the process of argumentation, present facts, reason, reason and judge closely around the topic, so as to convince people by reasoning. Although the individual views of the article are still open to question, and there is still a lack of necessary analysis on the ideological basis of Li Zicheng's listening to slanders and the class boundary of killing Yan Li, the author's courage and argumentation ability to put forward his own different opinions are really commendable.

When writing a book review, it is important to be independent, and the most taboo is to follow old habits and listen to other people's suggestions.