Douban score: 8.9
A work that truly feels the power of women.
This is an 80-year-old grandmother's self-report about her and her mother.
She said, "I wrote the life story of an ordinary China woman, how our family struggled to survive like driftwood in the water, and the life and death of those rural people in the hinterland of Central South China. I know that the story I wrote is like a drop of water, which will eventually flow into the long river of human history. "
Qiuyuan often says, "It's not that life is hard, it's that you have no patience." In the final analysis, it is not impatience, but impatience with reality. Fate hurts honest people like executioners again and again.
In my later years, I was like a traveling train, and an unprecedented force pushed me forward. I know that the story I wrote is like a drop of water, which will eventually flow into the long river of human history.
2. "Spring Mountain, Wang Wei, Prosperous Tang Dynasty and Silence"
Douban score: 7.7
This book vividly reproduces the poet Wang Wei's later life and his unknown inner world.
Wang Weigui in the book is no longer angry. The story takes place in the quiet Wangchuan after the war, but the mottled shadows cast by the sunset in the prosperous Tang Dynasty are scattered all the time. Fragments of the Tang Dynasty were scattered all over the floor. But where is the real Wang Weizang?
Poetry and Zen are two keys to explore Wang Wei's inner world. Poetry and Zen enriched Wang Wei's inner world, making it show the light of poetry and philosophy, and his life was nourished, rounded and sublimated.
At the same time, it is also a crack in the history of China literati.
He wrote two poems: "moonlight in the pine forest, crystal stone in the stream." Some people lament that this is obviously a normal scene. Why does your writing have a shocking meaning? Wang Wei said to himself, I am facing an ordinary scene. He shed two blue tears and smashed them in Pei Di's face.
3.raindrop necklace
Douban score: 9.0
This book tells eight stories, each of which revolves around material and happiness.
"Raindrop Necklace" tells the story of a little girl who was brought to the Arab princess's birthday party because of her magical necklace, and even had money to help the princess. The Cat Sitting on the Cushion tells the story of another little girl who only eats rotten apples and meets a fairy who likes to eat rotten apple pie, and finally gets a cushion with whatever she wants. One day wrapped in a pie, a cat in a bakery, a bed for the night and a bed of flowers are also stories of the type of "mistakes bring great material rewards". This book is full of all kinds of good things, from clothes made of golden scales to boats made of pink shells, from houses with feet to quilts decorated with stars, as well as roast chicken, jelly, cream, cheese, foie gras, bacon, sardines and chocolate ... The process of reading this book is like a little girl collecting stickers with a notebook, beautiful stones with a paper box and ribbons and colors with a crayon box. This huge and trivial happiness can really be described as "the mouse falls into the rice jar and the puppy falls into the dung jar".
Stories full of imagination and fantasy are especially suitable for reading to children as bedtime stories. Let children know what love is, what kindness is and what courage is.
Step 4 look at the lighthouse
Douban score: 8.6
This is another amazing work by jeanette winterson after oranges are not the only fruit.
"My mother named me Silver. I was born half precious metal and half pirate. " The story begins. Jennett. Winterson quietly handed over the narrative right to her heroine, and a fictional world of magical realism slowly opened. Yiner and her mother live alone in a house built on a steep slope. She has a dog whose hind legs are longer than her front legs. One day, her mother fell off a cliff and died, leaving Yiner an orphan. She was first adopted by Miss Pinch, a small town teacher, and finally taken in by Pu Yu, a blind lighthouse keeper.
With unparalleled writing skills and poetic language, she described all kinds of loneliness in the world.
Life is so short and full of contingency. We have met, but we don't know each other; We went the wrong way, but we met. We carefully choose the "right path", but it won't take you anywhere.
5. "Ou Li-chuan Reading Ancient Poems"
Douban score: 8.8
This book is a book of poetry appreciation and a history of China's poetry. China is a country of poetry. As early as 3000 years ago, many beautiful poems were sung on the land where the Yellow River flowed. Then, from North China to Jiangnan, the whole Chinese nation is enveloped in the exciting rhythm of poetry. ?
This paper interprets 47 poets, covering 20 themes, and cites more than 200 poems by circumstantial evidence from the perspectives of myth, Book of Songs, Songs of Chu, Yuefu, Tang Poetry and Song Poetry, which helps us to clarify the misunderstanding and prejudice of some poems in the history of literature.
Poetry is a kind of inheritance and a kind of record. Poetry is endless, with a sense of depth of time and a broad vision of different dimensions. How poetry is handed down from the source, inspiring generation after generation, and how people inject endless energy into it can be found in this book.
? When the poet walks towards the truth, goodness and beauty of the world, he will also lead readers to explore the mysteries of the world together. Through the exercise of poetry, the poet polished the truth, goodness and beauty of the world more crystal clear, and even the dark side of pain filtered out the rough ingredients, glowing with tears, so that the terrible sadness in reality was sublimated when written into poetry, reflecting a bit of elegance and beauty.
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