Let's start with the kindle
2021 just ended, and a january 2022 news about an electric paper book let me know that the kindle I had held for nearly 10 years could still be used as a bubble cover. Although the official online self-operated store has also done this kind of ridiculous advertising, for me, who no longer pays attention to new products when the product can still be used, I am still opened my eyes.
I have a lot of books that I read through kindles for the simple reason that they are easy to carry, don't hurt your eyes, and last a long time. Of course, now all kinds of brands of electric paper books also have the same function, so the irreplaceability of the kindle has disappeared.
My opinion on how the kindle ends up is that for people who are actually into a habit of reading, that's not the point. Whether it is a physical book or an electric paper book, they are just a medium. Hungry readers don't care what the medium in which the book is presented is, because the content of the book is the destination of a book compared to the medium. From this perspective, there is no difference between paper books and electric paper books.
The only problem left, then, is reading habits. The benevolent see the wise see the wise, and this matter cannot be forced. But personally, I'm willing to embrace more new channels and ways, and I don't want to seal a door for myself to get content.
Of course, in my place, most of the books that say goodbye once I read it again are electric paper books. If a book is really good and worth savoring, the paper book must be stored in the cabinet.
The figure of the child became the bulk of my book list
The reading list for 2021 is interesting because this year's reading list is very different from the one I read in previous years. After the birth of my child and the end of my further studies, for a long time, reading, as Steiner expressed, was my own business. Everything I read will only be relevant to my area of interest. However, what to read in 2021 is very "flowery".
Only 6 of the 24 books belong to their own categories of spiritual enjoyment and ability improvement, and the remaining 18 are related to children. Kids are better than me, and the reading list is more than double mine.
Of the 18 books,
There are 7 books that are directly related to children,
There are 11 books that have an indirect relationship with the child.
In fact, I have always recorded the information for my child to read, watch movies, listen to stories, and travel, and when he graduates from elementary school, he can hand it over to him to continue. It is only today that the intersection of the book lists that my children and I read has suddenly emerged, which shows that the content boundaries of reading have crossed and merged. Isn't abundant talking and topic a guarantee that parent-child communication is durable? The thought of father and son being able to chat in the north and south of the world is really happy!
Books that are directly related to children
I. "Snow Leopard Lament"
One of the easiest and most effective ways to approach your child is to have the same hobbies. Animal story king Shen Shixi's series of works, the little guy has almost finished reading. One of his favorite books is "Snow Leopard Lamentations". Since he likes it, then I will also read it, so I will have a chat topic on the way to school and school. Therefore, on the way to the first half of 2021, taking a few minutes to chat about the wonderful segments of the story has become a good opportunity to sing and harmonize.
2. "The Quarter Of the Dream Trip"
To be precise, the creators of the book must not have imagined that there would be elementary school students in the audience. My fate with this book comes from an excerpt from the book in the mobile phone reading software, because he liked it after reading it to his child, so he specially bought a second-hand book online and came back. The book is actually a compilation of the short stories of the three authors.
I have to say that the brain circuits of the three authors are very powerful. Due to the theme of the story, I only told the children the content of two of the authors as bedside stories before bedtime.
Some of the stories in it are very imaginative, as if watching the text version of "Mr. Strange and Miss Miao", and the children can't help but laugh when they hear the interesting content.
III. "Nils Rides the Goose"
Enjoy traveling through sweden with Nils on the back of a goose, and it's fun to learn about the customs and customs. Some chapters are a little protracted, so the child occasionally appears when I am still reading and he is already asleep. At first, I also worry that the coherence of the story will be destroyed, but later I find out that what the little guy missed is not the main content of the story at all.
It reminds me of Naruto. Several episodes were missing in the middle, and it was later found that the story was still branching around, and the main line was still not mentioned. The same is "Grim Reaper", which played N episodes and flew in the sky without deciding whether to win or lose.
IV. Selected Readings of Wang Zengqi
It is said that the bean juice of old Beijing is difficult to drink, but when reading the article describing the bean juice in "Wang Zengqi's Selected Readings" with the child, I still can't help but swallow a few mouthfuls. The talent's smooth writing made the little guy lying next to me show a look of anticipation, thinking that he could quickly go to Beijing to taste it. However, this wish has not yet come true due to the epidemic.
V. Selected Readings of Ice Heart
With a sense of distance from the times, when reading the description of the oppressive environment, the child wonders what happened to the last little orange lamp. Some articles do read a little early, although the article is said to be a letter to young readers, but the barrier of time and space, so that children now read, always seem a little strange. I think the best way to solve this problem should be to wait for the child's growth, and when multiple knowledge can naturally set up a reading environment, everything will naturally become logical.
VI. "Celebrity Biography"
It's a book that the lad and I find very uncomfortable. Because I read the electronic version, the good version of Yilin Publishing House was also ruined. The content of the annotations and the content of the main text are not well distinguished, so that when reading and reading, you can't feel the direction.
After reading the admirable Beethoven story, I read the whole book quickly, and then gave up reading it to my children. Then we turned to another interesting popular science book.
VII. "Strange Knowledge Added Again"
When watching small videos with children, you will encounter a kind of interesting popular science videos, and you will always add a sentence "Strange knowledge has increased" at the beginning or end. The little guy loves popular science about black holes, so he came across this interesting book in the process of searching the bibliography. We raced all the way from the interior of the Earth to the mysterious black hole of space. Some chapters are very interesting, and some are slightly jerky. This jerkiness is not caused by the author, but by our own limited knowledge reserves.
At this point, should it end or continue? Some parents like to say things to their children: "You are still young, the content of this book is not suitable for you, wait until you are older to read it." "In my opinion, it is not impossible to read and listen. Has not been in contact, has been jerky, listen to see the total no harm, see more knowledge is not so a little bit of accumulation of well.
Bedside stories are a very important thing, reading stories does not mean that children can not read, but that adults will have questions, answers and other dialogues with children when they read stories. This process cannot be done by a person reading. Recall, when we were young, did we all like to listen to the stories of our parents and fall asleep? That being the case, there are reasons and benefits to this thing until the child rejects the bedside story. From another point of view, this is also one of the ways to get along with parents!
Books that have an indirect relationship with children
The next book is either to give the child the next stage to use, or to read the completed version and find the story good, according to Tu Suoji to find the juvenile version.
I. Outline of the History of English Children's Literature
When reading stories to children, they encounter two problems from time to time:
1. Why is the way fairy tales are always written the same?
2. What are the values that fairy tales want to convey?
Thus, this historical outline entered my reading category. Through learning, the influence of a cultural concept atmosphere and even economic factors has led to the archetypes of the various versions of the story that we see now. This is good for children to ask how to answer questions.
2. "Peter Pan", "The Adventures of Candy"
These two books are in English, but the version I am looking for is a simplified English version of the Foreign Research Agency. For me, their value is to help guide children to self-reading when accumulating similar vocabulary and sentence patterns in the Process of Learning English.
The first six books in the Magic Tree House series
This series of books is actually very similar to a series for children before - "Magic School Bus", which is very beneficial for expanding knowledge in English and already understanding some authentic English expressions.
IV. Douluo Continent
The reason for being able to read this book and look back is a bit surprising. I'm a fan of anime, and when I encounter an anime with a good shape or plot, I always take the time to watch it. Of course, now there is less time to watch the whole thing, and most of them, like many movies, will fast-forward to watch. "Douluo Continent" is such a domestic animation that has entered my field of vision.
I thought that more than 100 episodes should be finished, but it turned out that the promotion of the plot had obviously not yet reached the end. It was at this stall that the child came home from school to share school fun with me, mentioning that the classmates were playing cards from the Douluo Continent and introducing me to the background story of the characters shared by others. Heck, it's not fun, because what he said was probably fast-forwarded by me.
In order to have an early grasp of the main story line, it is good to communicate with the child. So I read the novel as fast as I could on the Internet.
In the problem of chatting with children, parents are not omnipotent and all-knowing, and there will always be shortcomings in a certain field. One day, when he finds out what he's following, and you're not interested or interested in understanding, the person who ends up closing the chat door must be ourselves. The child just passively chooses to give up when trying to communicate ineffectively.
Therefore, it is not a pleasure to pay close attention to the content of the child.
V. "Iron Man of Silicon Valley"
There will be a reading plan for the book, simply because I saw Elon Musk building school press materials for his own and his employees' children while browsing the web. Use the most basic physical rules to look at the problems around you, and penetrate the appearance into the essence, and then build a school for the child. This interesting approach made me suddenly interested in the way this person thinks and does things.
What can his brilliance do for me as I grow up with my children? With such questions and expectations, I began my reading journey. While reading about the author's bio, I learned that he also wrote a teenage version of Musk's biography, Achieving the Impossible, specifically for kids.
Because it is all technical content, and there are various difficulties and successes faced by a person growing up, I bought a new book for him when I determined that the child had an interest in reading.
From book to book, it's an interesting process of pressing the tussocks.
It's only about yourself
II. "Social Change"
This is actually a photocopy textbook used by colleges and universities, and it is read entirely to exercise the long-abandoned English reading ability. I won't say much about it here.
Language and Silence: On Language, Literature and Inhumanity
This is a book that I specifically sought out to read because I read "The Long Saturday.". The feeling that Steiner's language is in place. The process of watching it always reminds me of Wittgenstein, because when some content is expressed in words, it is no longer the original. Like Saturday, some of the ideas are debatable.
IV. "Think Fast, Think Slowly"
Thinking is a troubling, painful, and sometimes thankless thing. So, the author found that each of us has two sets of thinking patterns – one fast and one slow. I have seen the domestic translation of "Thinking, Fast and Slow" before. This edition is a Taiwanese version translated by Hong Lan. Hong Lan's language expression is very fluent, and I felt it when I read her work on education issues in 2013, so it is considered to be an old text and a new look. The process of contrast is the process of seeing similarities and differences in ways of thinking. It's fun!
V. Python Programming Quick Start
I've always wanted to learn Python, but this time I was beaten by myself. Didn't work out. The biggest obstacle encountered at present is that many highly operational tutorial books always jump in a place where details are particularly needed. In 2022, try it again!
VI. "Playing with Blender: 3D Animated Character Creation"
Since programming has not yet borne fruit, let's start with animation! So I started contacting Blender. The book is good overall, and it shows the thought process of animating modeling and production.
But the disadvantages are also obvious:
1. The version is old
The current large version of blender software has come to the 3.0 era, but the version introduced in this book is still stopped at 2.79. I also don't know if the original authors abroad have pushed a new version. Anyway, the domestic translation version is too old.
2, translation and proofreading quality - huh.
The quality of the translator and the translation proofreading is really not flattering, and the words can be different before and after, which causes many obstacles to understanding and operation. Not only that, but in some places, the pictures and texts are not right.
Of course, shortcomings are also the driving force for moving forward. So I began to write my own self-study tutorials based on my own experience. Record your experience!
Write at the end
The more you insist on reading, the more inseparable you will be. Because there is a lot of fun in reading, every reader can create an imaginary world of their own for themselves. That feeling of communicating with the author makes you extremely fulfilled and satisfied.
Reading needs guidance and companionship, especially in the process of children's reading growth. In 2021, I actively avoid becoming a kind of father who only buys books for his children and never participates in their children's reading journey.
Almost a month has passed in 2021, but it seems that it is less than the Lunar New Year, and the year seems to be not over. Therefore, this list of books on "flowers and oh" is also presented in front of your eyes! Best wishes!