After reading more than a dozen books in two months, it will be too long (too tired) to finish them at once, so it is divided into two parts. Enjoy reading!
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Philosophical comfort
★★★★☆
Publishing House: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
This is an introductory book on philosophy. Author Alain de Botton selected six representative philosophers, Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to introduce their main philosophical thoughts, with simple language and good readability. Six people respectively correspond to the solace of being out of touch with the world, the solace of lack of money, the solace of frustration, the solace of defect, the solace of sadness and the solace of being in trouble. I prefer the chapters on lack of money, frustration and pain (how miserable I am), especially the happy list of Epicurus. Epicurus believes that a happy life has the following factors, namely friendship, freedom and thought. De Botton summed it up as a small room, hiding from superiors, favors, intrigues, thoughts, and the Madonna of Bei Lini. As an introduction to philosophy, this book may not be professional enough, but it can bring comfort and strength to people and arouse readers' interest in philosophical thoughts. Philosophy tells people how to look at the world and how to spend their lives. I think we need its guidance more than people at any time in history-philosophy should be an essential medicine for modern people.
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The evolution of love
★★★★★
Publishing House: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
This is a critical novel by Alain de Botton. The so-called critical novel is actually De Botton's original writing style. To put it simply, the author's comments are added from time to time while the plot of the novel is going on, so the reading process is like a barrage. In addition to this story, there are comments and opinions given by De Botton. If the reader happens to think of the same place as the author, it will be interesting for a moment. It is said that the evolution of this kind of love is the sequel to the author's first novel "Love Notes". This is the first time that the author tried to write a novel with bootleg goods, and then he became famous. But I don't like love notes very much, first of all, because stories are too simple, and personal comments are too long and often overstretched. Secondly, from this autobiographical love note, we can see that the British genius De Botton was a person who thought too much when he was young, and this kind of person also made me unbearable. For example, because my lover and I have different tastes in shoes, I feel sad from it. The evolution of love is much more mature. Taking the different stages of an intimate relationship as clues, the author arranges several chapters, such as romance, besieged city, parenthood, extramarital affairs and romance, which almost records and exposes all kinds of happiness and suffering that love and marriage will face. I even want to draw up a shocking recommendation, "shocking! Never get married before reading this book! " . Not only is the structure and story mature, but the author's point of view is much more mature than the last one, with much less lamentation, most of which comes from real life.
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Taoist poet Li Bai and his pain
★★★★
Publishing House: Beijing Publishing House
This is a pamphlet recognized in the field of Li Bai's research, which was written in the 1930s. Taking Li Bai's traveling life as a clue, this paper analyzes the poet's life state, political ideal and life pain in different stages. Mr. Li Changzhi really loves Shixian. He has confessed many times, to idols. He even wrote: "People who don't know how to love Li Taibai should die quickly, because his life has already withered." How cute. The reason why he is a Taoist is that the author thinks that Li Bai conforms to the "halal" pursued by Taoism. I like this word very much. The so-called bright is not turbid, and the so-called true is not pretentious or artificial. The poet's natural personality and natural writing style are all included in it. What impressed me deeply was the analysis of Li Bai's vigorous vitality, which was really hard to get, and compared with the ending of his reburial in Qingshan, it was very emotional. This book comes from the series "Everyone's Little Book". As the name implies, this series is a collection of pamphlets published by many university experts. I also bought another copy of Fu Lei's and will continue to collect it. Thank you very much for recommending this little book to me.
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How to quarrel correctly
★★★☆
Press: Houlangfan China Overseas Chinese Publishing House.
This is a practical psychological book. Do you believe in lovers who don't quarrel? I used to believe. I remember when I was a child, my parents always quarreled. I silently vowed to form a family without quarreling or not. The situation is reversed. Today is my fifth anniversary with Uncle Di. Not long ago, we started quarreling for three days, a little quarreling for five days, and both sides accumulated a lot of negative emotions. Plus, I found that I can't express my needs correctly even when I quarrel (yes, one of the great benefits of intimate relationship is that I can explore myself deeply), so I bought this book to educate myself. The truth in the book is clear (though not new): first identify emotions, then find the needs behind emotions, and then analyze the sources of needs. If it comes from inappropriate thinking logic or family trauma, then try to heal yourself, so as to gradually establish correct thinking logic and finally form good interaction with each other. I think the most beneficial point of this book is to tell readers through a large number of examples that quarreling is not necessarily a bad thing, but often it is a good thing to build a relationship. The final conclusion of the book is to encourage couples to quarrel boldly. Well, quarreling does have its merits, but in this process, how to get worse is better. After a while, there is still a feeling that "I still have a hard time after listening to a lot of sermons." After all, self-treatment and self-correction are a long-term process, and we should not rush into it. To sum up, this book is very good, except that it has the common fault of this kind of books-it is a bit verbose to convince readers with positive arguments and negative arguments, so it can be kept at home.
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Scholar's point of view: Zidong time
★★★
Publishing House: Jinghua Times Chinese Publishing House
This is a collection of comments by Teacher Xu Zidong. The fifth season of Round Table School was broadcast, but the lovely teacher Xu Zidong was absent from the recording, on the grounds that the school made a ban for some reason, which was consistent with the reason mentioned in the preface that it could not continue to publish the review collection. Half-joking and half-serious, I listened to xu teacher's remarks with a smile, which just struck me as the pleasure of watching the program, but reading the anthology was not so intuitive. The same words fell on the paper, as if losing the charm of the teacher, without that kindness and wisdom, not special enough. Xu teacher's concerns in this book are grounded, such as sky-high housing prices, the economy of online celebrities, comedy movies and so on. So it's very easy to read and very basic. People who miss xu teacher may read it to comfort the suffering of lovesickness.
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Madame Bovary
★★★★☆
Publishing House: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
This is Flaubert's masterpiece, a novel set in the French countryside of19th century. The plot is not complicated, it can be summarized in one sentence. It is nothing more than a process in which a peasant woman longs for romance and is dissatisfied with the status quo after marrying a small town doctor. He writes like a thousand times and deserves to be a famous writer. I read the penguin classic translated by Zhou Kexi, and the overall feeling is quite comfortable. Among them, almost all the parts that make me applaud are related to psychological enlightenment. The author has described the inner psychological trend of Madame Bovary and its external modality, which makes it hard to imagine that it was written by a middle-aged uncle. Flaubert's writing habits sound very similar to those of Murakami, and both of them emphasize the importance of revision. It is said that every word in Madame Bovary is carefully selected. The author's standard is that there should be no repetition or jumble of words on a page. Simply put, a word can't be used twice. Flaubert's mother once thought that her son would be driven crazy if he couldn't choose a satisfactory word. I think it's a pity that no amount of exquisite translation can reach this level. In the second half of the year, I want to study the 19th century French literature system.
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Xiao Gu rambles on painting: Renaissance
★★
Press: Tiehulu, Beijing United Publishing Company.
Art toilet reading. In fact, many books about art are much better than this kind of indecent reading, but at certain moments, reading this kind of book is acceptable, such as having a tired day and not wanting to chew serious books, or thinking that reading good books in this state is a kind of blasphemy and waste, but you want to read something interesting and aesthetic. At this moment, WeChat reading pushed this book that you have read many times to the bestseller shelf. Don't waste other good time reading this book except in this case. Later, on the train, I read a book called "The Myth of Small Gu Chatting", which didn't even deserve your garbage time. Don't look.
To be continued.