1, Mao Mu's Reading Essays
Maugham
Douban score: 8.6 points
(4285 comments)
Wen Hui Publishing House
Reading notes:
If the novel world is compared to a complete garden, and you always know where it is, but you can't find the door to enter the room, then this book by Mao Mu is the most suitable ticket. Mao Mu told us bluntly, "Reading should be a pleasure." As a writer and a reader, he told us the classics in his mind in Kan Kan, sometimes serious and sometimes humorous.
Feel this book in three sentences.
1. Reading is actually a process of establishing and constantly revising one's own philosophical system, and books that are completely suitable for oneself can only be written by oneself.
2. To form the habit of reading is to create a shelter for yourself to escape from almost all the sadness in life.
Everyone is the best critic himself.
2. Woolf's reading essays
Virginia Woolf
Douban score: 8.8 points
(3 132 evaluation)
Wen Hui Publishing House
Reading notes:
This book selects three important collections of Woolf's essays, so that this beautiful woman can show you the pleasure of reading, the relationship between books and women's lives, and the unwritten rules behind them that you have never considered.
Feel this book in three sentences.
1. Once a person has self-knowledge, he has an independent personality. Once he has an independent personality, he is no longer confused and idle.
No matter what era, there will always be people who solemnly assert that women are not suitable for this and can't do that-just like there are germs in any era.
We should not give orders to the author, but put ourselves in the author's shoes: be the author's partner and accomplice.
Step 3 read the guide
liang qichao
Douban score: 9. 1.
(350 people were evaluated)
Zhonghua book company
Reading notes:
Mr. Liang Qichao introduced the basic information and reading methods of the main books on Chinese studies. This book is not written entirely in classical Chinese, so it won't be difficult to read. It is a good introductory guide for those who are interested in Chinese studies but suffer from the lack of guidance from famous teachers.
Feel this book in three sentences.
1. One should always cultivate the interest in reading.
2. It is really a reading guide that people want to read, especially those who are interested in Chinese studies.
3. The books we read every day are best divided into two categories, one is from be adept at, and the other is browsing, because on the one hand, we should develop the habit of reading carefully, on the other hand, we should develop the habit of reading quickly, which is equal to reading in vain. If you are short-sighted, you don't have enough time to search for information.
4. "How to read"
Hu Shi et al
Douban score: 7.8 points
(80 1 person rating)
Life reading Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore
Reading notes:
Reading the same book, people who know how to read can gain wisdom and knowledge and cope with the environment; On the other hand, people who don't know how to read but get nothing get the nickname "bookworm". The reading experience and suggestions of Lin Yutang, Zhu Guangqian, Feng Zikai and others in the book are both practical and interesting, and are well worth reading.
Feel this book in three sentences.
1. Reading and walking, playing football, watching movies and traveling do not conflict, but complement each other.
2. There are three questions before reading: What books to read? The role of reading? How to read?
I would rather be a poor Socrates all my life than a happy pig.
5. Schopenhauer's aesthetic essays
Schopenhauer
Douban score: 9.2 points
(772 comments)
Shanghai People Publishing House
Reading notes:
This book selects and translates Schopenhauer's comments on aesthetics and aesthetics, such as reading and books, architectural aesthetics, music, natural beauty, sculpture and pictures, etc. This is a book that needs to be digested through thinking. The author discusses "thinking", "reading" and "death" in detail, which is of great guiding significance to life.
Feel this book in three sentences.
1. Independent and free thinking and reading have different influences on our spiritual thoughts, and the difference is incredible.
2. Those who spend their whole lives studying and drawing wisdom from books are like reading all kinds of travel notes to learn more about a place.
We should always spend our limited reading time reading the great works of various countries and nations in history.
6. Literature handouts
Vladimir Nabokov
Douban score: 8.8 points
(1099 evaluation)
Shanghai Triple bookstore
Reading notes:
In this "Literature Lecture Notes", Nabokov clearly expressed his views on the works under discussion in simple and clear language. After his explanation, the words in his works that did not show profound meaning and special value, like pearls suddenly exposed to the sun, suddenly exuded brilliant brilliance.
Feel this book in three sentences.
1. Style and structure are the essence of a book, and great ideas are just empty nonsense.
2. An excellent reader, a mature reader, a reader with lively thoughts and pursuing new ideas can only be a "repeated reader".
3. When appreciating a masterpiece of genius, smart readers read it with their spine, not only with their hearts, but also with their brains, so as to fully appreciate its artistic charm.
7. "How to read and why to read"
Harold Bloom
Douban score: 8.4 points
(1008 evaluation)
Yilin Press
Reading notes:
This master reader and wise old man sorted out the source for us, combed the immortal works of the West, and told his favorite poems, novels and plays from childhood to his later years. Teach you how to read and why to read.
Feel this book in three sentences.
1. Reading is to eliminate loneliness and strengthen yourself.
No one really feels free unless he or she is spiritually lonely.
We study not because we can't know enough people, but because friendship is so fragile, so easy to shrink or disappear, and it is easily hurt by time, space, imperfect sympathy and all kinds of unsatisfactory things in family life and emotional life.