I hope this list of good books will enrich your “want to read” list.
(Blink half-eye~) 1 "All Things Are Great and Small" [English] The titles of James Herriot's "All Things" series are beautiful and catchy, and his representative work is "All Things Are Animistic and Beautiful".
Compared with the name that exudes the fragrance of valley orchid, the text in the book is more simple and full of life, telling the interesting story of the author himself as a British rural veterinarian, treating animals for his strange customers (...).
You can experience the most vivid British humor in this book. I like to take it out and read it when I am commuting to get off work and taking the subway. I burst out laughing when I read it.
Every little story in this book is very charming. It's the kind of warm winter reading that makes you want to lean by the fire, drink hot wine, listen to him talk all day and all night, and smile knowingly from time to time.
This book often reminds me of Li Juan (one of my favorite writers). They all live in remote villages far away from modern cities. Because of their unique working environment or life experience, their daily lives are not "everyday".
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They wrote about their unlucky experiences, such as the veterinarian who was kicked away by a hoof while sterilizing a stubborn strong cow, or Li Juan who was hit directly on the head by a leaking plastic bag from the tent when it rained.
Makes people laugh until they cry.
They do not sugarcoat their lives. Their lives are real, but closely connected with nature, animals, and human relationships. To us, they are rare because they are rare. To them, they are even more precious because they are common but know how to be rare.
2 "Hunters" When Zhu Tianxin mentioned books about cats, I would definitely raise two books. One is "Good Kitten" by Gu Xiang, and the other is "Hunters".
The former is the long silence of one cat and one person, while the latter is the lively hustle and bustle of a family of cats and people.
Most of the cats in Zhu Tianwen's house are free-range strays. They come and go, and each one has its own personality. It made me laugh from the first article.
My favorite cat is Li Jiabao, but he is also the saddest one.
Especially this sentence: "What kind of world is it like now? There are not many people who can let me treat each other wholeheartedly, let alone the cat who wants to be extravagant. If you are really a smart cat, you should have understood it long ago."
"Yes." Most of the cats in Zhu Tianxin's works still retain their wildness and ambition, probably because they were not raised in captivity at home. After adoption, their habits remain unchanged and they disappear without a trace. The cats who are the bosses in the territory often return home injured and bandaged.
Later, he went out to inspect the territory with his head held high.
Probably because there are many cats and dogs in the house, and there are social relationships and hierarchies between cats and dogs, the focus of the story is on the interaction and social interaction of the four-legged animals, while the two-legged animals only serve as observers and recorders of the story.
exist, and are no longer the only race associated with cats.
With freedom as a symbol of independence and socialization as a symbol of status, these cats finally got rid of the shackles of pets in a book about cats, declaring that the sovereignty of cat personality belongs to them.
3 "The Signature of Everything" [American] Elizabeth Gilbert (Elizabeth Gilbert) This is the second novel by the author of "Eat, Pray, Love".
The first half of the story is as detailed as a family biography. The girl was born in a wealthy manor. Like her father, she is full of curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring plants, and she is immersed in her own huge botanical garden.
She became interested in studying moss. Year by year, like God looking down on the earth to study human society, she looked down at how the moist moss on the back of each stone expanded its boundaries and how it swallowed up the moss of other races. Of course, there is love in the novel.
story, but what fascinates me more than this is that a woman in the manor era at that time did not follow the established route to do a series of "women should do" such as attending dances, choosing husbands, etc., but purely
Purely devote yourself to your interests and aspirations.
Consistent with the core of "Eat, Pray, Love" is that women as individuals are also seeking self-recognition and positioning.
She was originally carefree, but after her parents adopted a younger sister, she started comparing people of the same sex. She felt inferior in certain comparison items (such as appearance, for example, men paid more attention to her sister than to her), and also in certain comparison items.
Pride (such as knowledge, for example, she is more eloquent than her sister at banquets).
The book spans a long time and depicts the life story of the girl (including her father), her growth, maturity and aging.
At the end of the story, she is also alone, so what?
"Your life is so colorful!" Wallace said the same.
4 "The Trolley Problem" [USA] Thomas Cathcart You must have heard of this problem: a trolley has lost control, and there are five people on the track in front of it. If the trolley continues to go straight, it will kill these five people; also
The trolley can be turned onto another side road, but another person will be killed.
If you were standing next to a switch on a trolley, would you flip the switch?
This kind of ethical issue makes people get goosebumps excitedly.
Different from boring sermons, the book treats this ethical issue as a court case, with people from all walks of life (such as the police, prosecutors, defense and bystanders) taking turns to express their opinions.