In fact, the plot of this book is very simple, simple to pale, just like a lonely goose flying in the sky before a rain. The story is set in Germany during World War II. Liselle, a 9-year-old girl, lost her father, mother and brother and was sent to a foster family in the outer suburbs of Munich. On the way, Liesel accidentally got the first book in her life, The Gravedigger's Manual. During the war, although life was hard, Richie found something more attractive than food books. She can't help stealing books. It is precisely because of the comfort of 14 books that have been stolen one after another that Lise struggled to survive in war-torn Germany and miraculously helped others who suffered the same. In the novel, the narrator of the story turned out to be death. He predicted everyone's ending with compassion, and led the characters in the story and every reader to that ending slowly and sadly step by step. Life is a cruel road, the end has come, but people on the road are full of hope and gratitude. In the process of reading, many times, tears are red in our eyes, but we don't realize it.
Like most disasters, this story has a happy beginning. Although Lizzy's life is miserable, she has good luck. She has a generous and kind adoptive father, a rough but kind adoptive mother, and a good childhood friend Rudy. In the first half of the novel, in the German town under the shadow of war, life is hard, but it is also warm and moving. Liselle plays football with her friends, runs wild and steals apples. There are many chapters that even make people laugh. But these pleasures are shrouded in shadows. The laughter didn't stop, but the sadness has come. Liesel and the people around her, with their own spiritual strength, resisted the sinister reality. That kind of strength, optimism and kindness almost came out of generate in the sun, which made us feel dizzy, but far away, dark clouds were accumulating.
This is the tension of the novel. On the one hand, the quiet town life fascinates us; On the other hand, knowing that disaster is coming, our hearts are slowly tightening. Shortly after the start of the war, the more difficult it is, the more difficult it is to suppress the light of human nature. At this time, the narrative of the novel is more demure, and the war has almost become a distant background. In the days of avoiding bombing, Lizai took her 14 book and read it to everyone in the bomb shelter. There is a lot of gunfire outside, but the cave is full of touching kindness and humanity, which is actually stronger than any air-raid shelter. It is rare that the author has never mentioned this point, but every reader will naturally understand it after reading this.
If only the story's shocking power is taken as the standard, this book may not be as touching as Het Achterhuis and Schindler's List, but the power of this book is deeply hidden under the words, like a continuous spring rain, without an umbrella, but it pours down, even the eyelashes are wet. A good novel is so quiet, slow, calm and sad that people will never forget it even after many years.
Brilliant Thousand Yang is a novel about Afghanistan in the past 30 years. There are so many shocking things in the book that I am scared. I only finished it at night. After reading a book for the first time, I closed it and felt cold all over. I have a deeper understanding of war, Islam, Taliban, women's status, hunger, shells and refugees. It used to be just a concept. All I know is that there is a war there, which is very turbulent and very backward. I didn't know how superficial my understanding of the concepts of those places was until I finished reading this book. I don't know that many people in many parts of the world are living in ways I can't imagine. They worry about war every day. They were deeply saddened by the death of their loved ones. In order to survive, they had to send their children to an orphanage. They are careful not to be beaten by their husbands and choose to swallow their words. They can't go to the streets alone, and they can't go to school. I can't work, I can't fly a kite, I can't watch TV, I can't make up, I can't paint my nails, I can't take off my robe, I can't talk to men casually ... all these are beyond my dreams, and I can't dream of them. I live here, a peaceful country, a society where everything is on the right track. I am ashamed of my dissatisfaction and temper, because in other parts of the world, some people live a miserable life that I can't imagine. Every day, every year, generation after generation, I don't know when it will end, and the sky overhead is always overcast.
This book is an instinctive soul-shaking book, which makes me know that there are so many people who can't control their own destiny and can only pin their hopes on the sympathy of others. Maybe there will never be compassion, and there will never be hope.
I sincerely pray for them that everything will get better and better.
As the poem says:
People can't count how many bright moons are on her roof.
I can't count thousands of bright suns behind the wall.
I will always remember this title, because it brought me not only shock, but also a new understanding of the world.
There is no doubt that they love each other very much. However, he didn't really know her until she died. Maybe he doesn't even know her as well as the big dog named "Li Luo".
The Tower of Babel, taken from chapter 1 1 of the Bible, means "chaos" and symbolizes all kinds of problems caused by poor communication between people.
In marriage, love can never represent everything. Is it rare to have a loving but unhappy marriage? ! Communication ~! Communication ~! This is the most important thing in marriage. If you ask a psychologist if you are suitable for marriage, he won't ask whether you are in love, but whether you can communicate smoothly, including when quarreling. So.
Their happy life is so superficial that he can't understand the deep sadness of the elf's eccentric wife. To some extent, they are like people from two worlds. They can surprise each other, give each other happiness and give each other a lot of love, but they can never walk into each other's hearts.
I was very sad to see her wearing a girl's mask and having sex with him, and to see Li Luo lose her closest relative because of that steak.
But in the process of reading, I never felt sorry for him. A husband who let his wife commit suicide, I can forgive, but I won't sympathize. Marry her, not only because of her surprise, but because you want to know her and protect her for life.
Some people on Douban say that the greatest sorrow of this book is that the author is a woman. Maybe.
There is an insurmountable gap between men and women, which needs a lot of love, patience and determination to fill.
4 "One's Fine Weather" hesitated a little when it was discovered that it was written by a Japanese writer. According to experience, reading Japanese characters always requires considerable patience. I don't know whether it's the translation or the Japanese writing style. I always feel that the winter sun shines on me, and the temperature can't be grasped.
Fortunately, the article was short, and I swallowed it alive soon. When I closed the book, I thought, "The tram is carrying me to the station where someone is waiting for me." , can not help but sigh, this is life.
It is really a life like boiled water, helpless, but it continues. Some disappointment, but not despair, with a little hope, slowly go on.
My friend texted me and asked me if I liked it. I said, don't hate it. Can you hate life? No, what's more, the life in the story is very close to you.
This book always feels that if you don't read it before you are twenty, it is difficult to produce * * * sounds. Older people will think that this is a moaning without illness; Young people are likely to be tempted to "worry about adding new words."
Twenty years old is a delicate age, half secular and half ideal. I hope to be independent and protected. Zhishou doesn't want to be alone, but he is not good at getting along with people. I want to go to the outside world, but I'm afraid of falling, and Darren Chan's sentence "The world is both inside and outside. There is only one in this world. " I was almost shocked when I saw it.
There is really only one world, the so-called inside and outside, just the shackles we give ourselves. We always think too much and do too little. At the same time, indecision. I always think what I do is necessary, but in fact I make a choice unconsciously. As long as you are willing to take the first step, there will be a way out.
Life is still boiled water, but a beautiful cup will be pleasing to the eye.
5 "Thorn Birds" I remember that when I was a child, I thought the words about Thorn Birds were mysterious, so I worshipped them blindly.
When you grow up, you will gradually appreciate the fate and feelings carried by legends.
Every time I see the khaki spine on the bookshelf, I feel that I am in the yellow inland of Australia, and I feel that I am marching forward resolutely with Meggie in the dry wind and flying sand and stones. ...
The characters in the book are not strictly divided into positive and negative roles, and each role has its own unique personality characteristics. Moreover, their weaknesses and defects make it easier and more willing for us to accept them, recognize them and even integrate with them.
I often think of Meggie's short speech, which probably means that we know that the pain is caused by ourselves, but we just stubbornly refuse to give up. We stabbed thorns into our chests and sang what we thought was the most beautiful song in the world.
In this world, so do we. ...
6 "Pride and Prejudice" liked this book very much from the past, but unfortunately I haven't had time to read it, and I finally finished it recently.
Anyway, this is a good book. No affectation, no nonsense, everything is "so accidental, so coincidental". In any case, this is by no means a work that only describes the communication activities of the upper class-what's more, the background described is not entirely "upper class".
From the book, we can learn a lot about English society in the early 9th century. What if we do this work with George? Compared with Eliot's The Mill on the Florence River, I love this book even more-although its structure is not so pleasing to the eye, the sad atmosphere has been eliminated one by one.
Few love novels make people laugh at the dialogue of the characters, but Jane? Austin's work is one of the highlights. In any case, she described in detail all aspects of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth's personality-and once Mr. Bennet and Mr. Collins start to act, they will definitely make people laugh.
In addition, the advantage of this book is that there is not a lot of scenery description, so those who dare to describe the scenery can get involved in this work, which makes Sun Zhili's translation excellent.
7 "Gone with the Wind" Anyone who has studied chemistry knows that graphite and diamond are both the same element, pure carbon, but because of the different arrangement order, their expressions are completely different. On the contrary! One is the hardest substance in the world, and the other is. . . . .
But they are actually the same element, carbon.
In my eyes, Rhett and Ashley are such two people.
From what, do you remember Melanie defending Rhett when others scolded him? That's what she said, and so was Ashley. It's just, it's just that he won't show it in front of others.
Yes, they are all wise people, but their forms are different because of their different family backgrounds and subsequent experiences.
Similarly, Rhett knows Ashley better than anyone around him. When Scarlett scolds Ashley, Rhett simply says that he is really a gentleman, but he just doesn't adapt to this society.
Yes, they actually know and understand each other, but this kind of understanding and understanding makes them less like each other, because understanding makes them understand each other's helplessness and their mentality. . .
As I said before, they are essentially the same, but life and experience make them different people.
First of all, Ashley is a child who grew up with gentleness and affirmation. In this trust, he is like a frog in warm water and can only be submerged in the trend of the times.
What about Rhett's family? On the contrary, in fact, we can know from Wen Rui's memory that his grandfather was a pirate, wild and violent, while Rhett's father, on the contrary, gradually suppressed his son in this repression. As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance. Can Rhett not break out in this situation? Then it is logical to embark on a rugged road, which may also be the road to success in the eyes of others.
Maybe. They are all just carbon.
8 "Red and Black" has been studying hard until chapter 24 of the next volume. Written in the most boring and clumsy place in Stendhal, similar to martial arts novels; In chapter 24, a wonderful Russian appeared, so the style took off. Undoubtedly, he could write the wonderful chapter at the beginning of the Abbey of Bama-no one can stop Stendhal from being really humorous.
He would rather let go of the subtle flirting between men and women (maybe he can't write it) than let future generations see those nine-line love letter sentences; However, when he wrote about love letters, adultery, climbing over walls, climbing ladders, hiding ladders, and jumping out of windows after knocking at the door, he was never vague (in Bama Abbey, this ability developed into a description of prison escape).
He only writes about the world of ideas, or19th century is actually a world of ideas, because all the women he wrote probably came from there. The tireless psychological street fighting between young men and women, and the derailment of fathers, brothers and husbands in snoring all seem to be "great possibilities"-who can guarantee that rabelais is calling God?
La Traviata is now beginning to understand why Margaret left armand. Because Margaret doesn't understand how much Armand loves her, and she doesn't understand that Armand loves her and can give up everything for her. Margaret thinks Armand is young and energetic now, and he loves her, so he doesn't care about anything. But in the future, they will be together for a long time, and Margaret will be old. When Armand's career is booming in the future, she may be ashamed of having a wife like her, or she may not want to show it to people. Even if armand doesn't do this, he will feel humiliated and depressed because he has a wife like her. Armand will be upset at that time. She doesn't understand that Armand loves her enough to give up everything and care nothing. That's why she left him.
At the same time, armand doesn't understand how much Margaret loves him, just as he doesn't understand why Margaret is often sad for no reason. Otherwise, he won't think she betrayed him, let alone hurt her. Margaret can't love Armand as Al loves her, because their status is different. Margaret has her concerns, but armand won't understand. Because armand never cared, he didn't think these would become Margaret's concerns. Margaret sold her property and wanted to live a plain life with him. Armand, on the other hand, squandered his money just to prevent Margaret from living a poor life because of him, and not to let Margaret regret living a poor life with him in the future. Armand didn't understand that Margaret didn't care about so-called wealth. Even before she met him, all this was important to her life, but now it doesn't matter because of him. But armand didn't understand. In fact, Margaret hopes that he can think about the future, not care about these vanity. This is to give Margaret confidence. But armand didn't do it. It was not until her death that he realized how much Margaret loved him.
They both loved each other deeply, but underestimated each other's love, which led to such a tragedy.
We can realize from other people's tragedies that it is dangerous for people who love each other to love deeply. Love must always be rational, love will last, and tragedy will happen.
Oh, dear Tess
I haven't finished reading a book so patiently for a long time, almost at one go. I read slowly, which makes me feel that reading a thick book is a great project.
I chose to read Tess. The introduction said it was a sad book, but what I felt was not sadness, but happiness. Because the ending is a bit bleak, but after all, I am with my beloved. This is not a tragedy. I think it would be a tragedy if Tess didn't kill D 'Urberville, but lived carefree with him.
Maybe I should have finished reading the Bible, but I gave up because I was impatient. In that case, I think I'd better express my feelings after reading Tess. Or I should read a philosophy book completely, so as to better explain the contradiction about human nature in the book.
Tess's experience reminds me more or less of the experiences of many unfortunate women, but they are all living well, which is something to be proud of. Hardy gave Tess the strength and unyielding courage to face life. It seems that he is not so sad about his role.