Recently, I read a book, the title of which is "Where La Gu sings". It was published in 20 18, and the sales volume of paper books was the first in the first half of 20 19. It was a bestseller with a douban score of 8.7. The author of this book is Delia Owens, an American biologist. This is her first novel, and it became a best seller as soon as it was published. Probably, after writing the book, her status has also increased by one kind, that is, writer. This book is beautiful to read, and it is always showing the readers pictures with a pen, and frame by frame comes to mind with reading. Perhaps because the author experienced magic, lived in Africa for more than 20 years, and has been committed to wildlife protection, so he can truly record nature with a pen.

The author talked about why he wrote this novel in an interview with CBS.

She is in life in south, Georgia, influenced by her mother, and now she often encourages them to explore and take risks to become themselves. Just like a dialogue in the book, I talked about what is "the place where Lagu sings" and what does "the place where the mole sings" mean? Mom also said so. " Kia remembers that her mother always encouraged her to explore the wetland: "Go as far as you can, as far as the place where the cricket sings." "It is deep in the bushes, where all the creatures are wild and behave like creatures." This passage is probably written by the author in memory of his mother, because her mother once said to them, "Go to the place where La Gu sings." Mother wanted them to experience the real nature, so she went and became a biologist, so she went to Africa to do research and returned to the United States decades later.

After coming back from Africa, she hopes to write a novel full of natural flavor. She wants to write down what nature has taught her and what nature has taught her. This book is the most beautiful description of nature I have ever seen. Through the coexistence of beautiful words, imagination and words in the book, every word is branded with the beauty of nature.

The description of wetlands in the whole book is rich and full of emotion, with beautiful sentences and amorous feelings. I was fascinated from the beginning of the preface and read the book at one go. Now I have chosen the sentences I like.

"Wetlands are not equal to swamps. Wetland is a space of light. Here, the grass grows in the water and the water flows to the sky. The stream flows slowly, winding towards the sea with the shadow of the sun. With the noise of thousands of snow geese, the birds with long legs took off with incredible grace-not as beautiful as being born to fly. "

"The air is hot in the morning of August, and the water vapor in the wetland hangs between oak trees and pine trees and condenses into fog. The mallow bushes are unusually quiet-except for the low and slow flapping sound of the herons in the lagoon when they take off. "

"She sat until the sun went down, the buttons in the fire turned into embers and shimmered, and the memory of her dancing jig with her mother melted into the flame."

"For more than two hundred years, the sharp, salty and wet wind has aged cedar houses, stained them with rust color, and the window frames painted white or blue have also peeled and cracked. Generally speaking, this town seems to be tired of fighting against nature and overwhelmed. "

"She drove slowly among the trees, for more than one hundred yards; When I met the drooping branches of the big tree, I bowed my head and saw the leisurely tortoise sliding out of the stagnant water. There is a blanket made of duckweed floating on the water, and the water is dyed green in the canopy of leaves, forming a green tunnel. Finally, the trees parted and the ship sailed into a place where the sky was open, the grass was within reach and birds were singing. She thinks this is the scenery that a chicken enjoys when it comes out of its shell. "

"Water traces spread in the lower part of the wall, leaving the outline outlined by salt particles, and black mold climbed to the ceiling like blood vessels. Little black mushrooms crouch in the corner. "

"Crows can't keep secrets like mud. Once they see something strange in the Woods, they can't wait to tell the world."

"She remembered the pale blue blood vessels on the inside of his wrist, as complicated as the lines on the wings of a wasp."

"Autumn is coming. Evergreen trees didn't notice, but Chinese parasol trees did. They shake hundreds of golden leaves in the stone-gray sky. "

Every sentence has built a very real scene for us, which is beautiful without the author's saying. Those light and shadow, aquatic plants and seabirds flash in my mind like movie pictures. When I read this book, it's easy for me to feel brought in. Every time I see these sentences, I will see pictures in my mind. The description of each scene is like setting up the background first, and then there is a story. Although the author wrote a mystery case, in the process of reading, he did not pursue the truth of the case, so he did not have the urgent sense of wanting to know the ending and read it. On the contrary, those detailed descriptions of wetlands made people more able to read it carefully.

The background of the story in the book is a big wetland. The protagonist is a girl who lives in the wetland. She is a marginalized person. Everyone calls her "Wetland Girl". After her relatives left one after another, she lived alone in the wetland, so she was excluded and discriminated by most people. But it is such a person who has never been infected by civilized society. She lives more like a wild animal in nature, full of humanity and wildness. She takes her desires seriously like an animal and actively adds color to her life like human beings. Such a girl's life story happened in the wetland, and her joys and sorrows were all in the wetland. She was born to know the wetland and became an expert in the wetland through learning. She loved every creature in the wetland and used her own efforts to protect the wetland. Of course, she also gained her love, which made the whole story or the "wetland girl" in the book have another kind of happiness. There are two timelines in the narrative of the story in the book. One timeline describes the girl as a child, and the other timeline describes the girl as an adult. The story originated in the fact that the girl has grown up now, and a murder case happened in the town. Two parallel lines formed a puzzle-like story. With the ups and downs of the story, the wetland picture scroll was also unfolded by the author.

After reading it, the story of the book is actually very simple, but the hostess is not simple. She has done one thing in her life and loves wetlands, so I am quite encouraged. Spending time on things she likes will make people more and more brave. Although the heroine was left behind by her relatives in her early years, she never left the wetland. With her help from herself and others, she survived in the wetland and had a life. She also met a gentle boy who helped her study and enabled her to study wetlands. This boy became her first love. But because the boy was going to college, he left her, so that she met another man, a four-way breakup popular with most local girls. This man is also the victim of the mystery line in the book. This man fills the painful and lonely life after his first love left her, but because of this man's existence, it threatens her quiet life in the wetland. Finally, like fireflies in nature, she uses traps and disguises to make this man unable to threaten herself. Of course, at the end of the story, this "wetland girl" and her first love boy spent a happy life together. The whole story is over

Text/Pei

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