1. Venice Diary

Acheng is a writer I am very convinced of. The style of writing is concise and transparent, which is the perfect combination of traditional aesthetics and modernity.

Diary of Venice is a short story written by Mr. Acheng when he lived in Venice. Write it in a diary, one every day for two months. Although a diary is a style, it is not just a record of personal daily chores. Its content is all-encompassing, unconstrained and unconstrained, and it will always be placed in a small basket in Venice. Elegant, but not scattered.

Modern upgraded version of prose in Ming and Qing Dynasties, one of the best Chinese writing. It is a happy thing to read such words before going to bed.

2. The Book of Tea

One of the more interesting books about tea. A thin roll. It's easy to read, not very pretentious.

The author Okakura Tenjin studied in Europe and America when he was young, so he took both Chinese and western perspectives into consideration. This little book was originally written for westerners, so it is easy to read. We can understand the history of the spread and evolution of tea ceremony, and it also involves oriental classical aesthetics.

It is a good book to get an introduction to tea ceremony and Japanese culture.

3. Wandering collection

Liang Wendao said that if you only read one book, Shu Guozhi, it is this book "Wandering Collection".

Shu Guozhi's writing is like a person, simple and casual, with a little sense of alienation of "I just like living like this, and it has nothing to do with you".

People who like Shu Guozhi like his freedom and casualness. People who don't like him very much probably think he is too simple and not profound. It's like a bowl of green vegetable and bean curd soup. Some people like it, others think it doesn't matter.

Vegetable bean curd soup is still delicious.

We are all apprentices of life.

A collection of film essays by Wei Xidi, a famous film critic.

Although the film is a theme, it is not a general film review, but a life written through the film. The author's writing is diluted and peaceful, which makes people feel warm to read. If compared with movies, it is probably similar to Hirokazu Koreeda's lens language. Such restrained writing is rare.

"Movies are the back window of life." This sentence comes from Hitchcock. We can see more from the back window of life.

When I talk about running, what do I talk about?

This book was originally bought to cheer myself up when practicing running, but I didn't expect it to be so good. And I'm afraid only Uncle Murakami can make running so interesting.

Since she decided to write a novel, Haruki Murakami has practiced long-distance running in a planned way, because writing, especially writing a novel, is a "physical activity".

Reading Haruki Murakami's prose is like walking into a corner bar on a rainy day. Billie Holliday's jazz is playing, and a gentle and polite uncle is sitting next to you, telling you the helplessness of life.

People who believe in one thing and go all out to do it are really cute.

6. The corner of Altay

This is Li Juan's best writing style, warm, lonely and bright.

I have been to northern Xinjiang a few years ago, which is really an unforgettable place for me. Rivers, grasslands, vast forests and Kazakh yurts. Xinjiang is the farthest area from the ocean on the earth. People living here long for peace, security and happiness.

Li Juan is an intuitive writer. Born keen and adrift, her feeling of the world is full of surprises. Reading her words is the process of constantly harvesting this kind of surprise, the endless darkness in the vast forest, a tree on the Gobi Desert, the first snow falling in early winter, and the blooming flowers in the swamp.

In fact, we have brought this kind of surprise to the world. I just forgot later.

7. Life is interesting

Collection of essays by Mr. Wang Zengqi.

Articles about food, old friends, and the spring and autumn of human vegetation have a taste of old literati. Wang Zengqi is probably the only one who can write a plain and unforgettable life.

This book is really suitable for reading one or two articles every night. It is a reminder to find the beauty of life in daily trivial life.

8.E B White's Prose

Reading E B White's prose is a pleasure. His works have a sense of music. That kind of feeling is like standing in the yard, breathing the cold air, and words are falling on me like snowflakes.

E·B· white is a great American essayist in the 20th century. As the main writer of The New Yorker at that time, he laid a far-reaching "New Yorker" style.

The writing is cold and humorous, and the attitude towards life is "to face the complexity and keep happy". On the surface, it's interesting. But the heart is gentle.

In addition to prose, White also wrote a fairy tale book like Charlotte's Web, which became a classic. Once a young reader wrote to White and asked if his fairy tale was true. White wrote back that no, they are fictional stories, but real life is just a kind of life.

I think he is right. The imagination of life is also life.