I remember when I was in college, I often went for a walk by the East Lake alone, blowing a cool breeze, bathing in the moonlight, looking at the lights of Wanjia on the other side of the lake, and the whole person's thoughts flooded, and I missed the warmth of home.
I don't know what to start from, everyone is used to growing up more lonely, the more grown up the more silent, when we were young, we were actually very happy, even if today is not worth remembering so happy things, simple and lovely us, but always understand each other's strangeness.
This book "Stars and Cats", with the life in an old alley, evokes the inner resonance of each of us. The eighteen stories that happen in Rong Lane are the most ordinary of our daily lives in ordinary days. Or touched, or happy, the most simple words have the truest stories, and so are the memories of those buried years in our minds that have been buried in the dust. When I first read these stories, I regret that there is no ending, but I can think about it, and no ending may be the best ending, leaving the reader with unlimited room for reverie.
The crush buried in the bottom of the heart is not too late to say it; the broken contact has not been forgotten, the friend who silently puts it in the heart; the encounter hates early, but the love is shallow, and the landscape never meets...
When I was a child, there was a mother-in-law at the entrance of our community who regularly set out a stall every morning, and the rice noodles and wontons she made were a must. Later, the mother-in-law moved out of the community, and she never ate such a delicious breakfast again. A little older, another mother-in-law started selling? Eating and coming home from school often takes one back in passing. But later, the mother-in-law also moved away. After entering junior high school, friends who often visit each other have also moved away, at first there will be contact, and later they have made new friends, plus the distance is too far, slowly alienated, and when they meet again, as if strangers, but when they meet, the momentary hesitation and the coaxing of friends also prove that they have not forgotten this friendship...
Each of us has a similar story experience, so when reading this book, when we see the characters of the story either sad or happy, we will also involuntarily follow the sadness and happiness. The stars in the alleyway sky are always flashing, as if nothing has changed, but everything has long ceased to be the way it was. The old cow noodle shop in Rong Lane has been open for so many years, but the demolition only takes a short day, the simple and happy Ah Liang left forever, Aunt Liuhua, who has been making clothes for others, also put on her most beautiful wedding dress, and Grandpa Jiang, who lives alone, finally "waited" for the person he was waiting for... Closing the book, these stories are still haunting my mind, more than fifty characters have their own characteristics, authentic and warm is the biggest feeling that this book brings me. No matter when, home, is always a word that will make people warm when mentioned, if you also miss those days, it is better to open this book and read it. #紫焰小说读书会 #