Another way to welcome the New Year
I don't know where you all spent this year's Spring Festival? Some small partners can't return to their hometown temporarily because of the epidemic, and miss the opportunity to share delicious food with their families and spend warm moments together. Less with the family to watch the atmosphere of the Spring Festival Gala, always feel that the taste of the year is insufficient.
You can't go out and travel, even if you stay at home, you can still spend a happy day without closing. The intimate Chuangchuangzi specially prepared a Spring Festival holiday spiritual supplement pack for you, containing 10 works with a Douban score of 8.0 or above, so that books can contract your entire vacation!
1. "Thanks in Winter to Summer"
Douban score 9.4
"Thanks in Winter for Summer" won the "Fitz Joseph Hungarian Librarian Award" and the Weibo Children's Book of the Year 2021 Good Book Recommendation. This book is also a blockbuster work by the author of the International Children's Book Federation "Book of the Year" and the winner of the "Josef Attila National Prize" of the Hungarian National Literary Award.
Author: (Hungarian) Judit Berg
(Hungarian) Timko Bieber painted
The Verdi were the guardians of the Sea of Reeds, and the underage Verdi had green hair. Only when their hair turns brown is they allowed to join the Guardians.
In the spring, Willie was looking forward to his hair quickly turning brown and growing into an adult so that he could join the Reed Sea Guard. But until the autumn, he did not succeed and could not fly. However, with wisdom and courage, he and his companions defeated the swans, water rats, and red-faced Grim people and defended the Reed Sea.
In the winter, Willie's hair finally turned brown, and he also realized that a long wait was a good thing, the fruit of autumn, from the seeds planted in the spring, and to thank the summer when winter came.
Douban user @ jieyi. Children are always full of yearning for the adult world, eager to grow, who has never dreamed of growing up overnight. The background of the story is very interesting, the brown hair is a sign of growing up, the protagonist Willie has been looking forward to the day when his hair will turn brown from spring to autumn, so as to become an adult in everyone's eyes, to do what only adults can do" paddle rowing, riding on the back of a frog, using weapons...".
It wasn't until the end of the story that Willie's hair finally turned brown, and he finally got real growth. Growth is actually a force emanating from the inside out, like an egg, breaking out of the shell is a new life, while the external breaking is destruction, growth is a slow thing.
2. "The Dwarf"
Douban score 9.1
A good fairy tale is to let people know that the author is talking nonsense, but still believe it. And the book "The Dwarf" tells such an imaginative story.
Author: (Netherlands) Will Hagen
(Dutch) Painted by Ryan Putwood
In the author's gentle and rigorous description, we will re-understand the dwarfs who live outside the fairy tales with a new and interesting perspective.
Open this book, you can follow the dwarf father, get up at sunset for breakfast, pick wild fruits, make honey wine, collect animal hair to make clothing, work in a blacksmith shop or glass factory, help a deer untangle the wire entangled in its horns... Meet all creatures with the dwarfs and enjoy the pleasures of the slow life of the forest.
The moment you open the book, it is as if you temporarily escape from the inner volume of real life, blend into nature, experience a fantasy escape, and harvest a comfort of the heart.
The moment you see the last time you close the book, you want to tell yourself to believe it, maybe there are really dwarves in some corner of the world?
Douban user @*ST-MachineGUN: Very beautifully made books with stories of another world hidden in them. With the feeling of an encyclopedia, the living world of the dwarfs is carefully described, and a complete and detailed fairy tale world is constructed.
For an adult, opening a book is a refuge, and in a fairy tale book it seems to be a return to a carefree childhood. Unconsciously watching for hours, in the current era can make people immersed for a few hours to do a relaxing thing, it is really valuable. Fairy tales are able to touch the depths of the heart, and the more cruel the reality, the more we need fairy tales.
3. "Scream"
Douban score 8.7
Author: (Japanese) Ye Zhen Zhongxian
The book "Absolute Scream" was recommended by Luo Xiang, Zhi'an and other big V, ranked in the Top 10 Douban Social Reasoning Books, and won the top spot in the Douban Reasoning and Suspense Books in 2020.
This book is as dark and depressing as "The Life of an Abandoned Pine Nut", losing to the point of suffocation but also making people feel that they can't stop. Not only does the high-energy dark system reasoning at the beginning of the book, but also gives the reader the truth that cannot be seen until the last second.
Not only is the content beautiful, but the idea is also far-reaching, integrating a variety of social issues. It can be said that it is written about all the plight of modern women, and it is so real that I can't bear to look at it directly!
Some people say that Yangzi is depraved, but if it is we who encounter these things, can we really live this life well?
After reading the whole book, you may not blame Yoko, on the contrary, you will feel sad and sorry for her. You will know from her how hard a person has to work to get rid of the chess game of fate.
The indifferent original family is the butterfly effect in Yangzi's fate, but a storm is not enough to crush a person, gender prejudice, class, and knowledge, it is these fuels that make Yangzi howl like a beast.
Douban user @ Orange Outsider: "In this world that can't be decided, can't guess, has no reason to speak of, everything is a natural phenomenon, as a person, you still can't erase your inner desire." Even if you know that a lot of your life is affected by your uncontrollable birth environment, you still have the desire to break through the obstacles and figure out what your birth means to the world. I had hoped I was a boy, but now I'm trying to find the meaning of my life as a girl.
4. "Assassin Wu Liu Qi"
Author: He Xiaomad
"Assassin Wu Liuqi" animation original "Wu Liuqi" B station more than 210,000 people scored 9.8 points, Douban more than 120,000 people scored 9.2 points, the whole network broadcast more than 4 billion, has won the Golden Dragon Award, Magnolia Award, shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Annecy Animation Film Festival.
The story takes the protagonist Wu Liuqi's search for lost memories as the main line, and the branch line composed of love and hatred between the characters and the characters runs through the whole process, telling the story of the protagonist in the process of helping others and finding himself, knowing different people, and the interesting things that happen between different characters, and finally using love to resolve hatred and prejudice.
Douban user @Joycee: very good-looking, some small philosophies, some comedy humor, some small daily, (love, family, friendship) human true feelings, can be seen.
5. The Greek Gods: The Song of Troy
Author: (Australian) Colleen McCullough
Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Ares, Apollo... The gods of Olympus sat high in the clouds, each with their own thoughts, and they used the fate of mortals as a pawn to brew a stormy power game.
Prince Parris of Troy kidnapped the Greek beauty Helen, and the Great Greek King Agamemnon finally waited for an excuse to go to war against Troy.
Achilles, Odysseus, Aeas... The heroes of Greece were called to the magnificent and fortified city of Troy, wielding Vulcan spears and Medusa shields, and engaged in a brutal battle with the prince of Troy, Hector, for a decade, while staging the love entanglement and power game behind the war.
Spies, undercover, guerrillas, intelligence, psychological warfare... In order to win, the two sides have exhausted all kinds of means, this war dominated by the gods and heroes, who will achieve the final victory?
Douban user @ Nightfish: The Greek gods are actually "supermen" with human character, and we have inherited their joys and sorrows and desires, and continued their tricks and mistakes.
In the book, the author pays attention to restoring the human characteristics of the Greek gods and excavating the practical significance of Greek mythology, presenting the classic Trojan Battle in the way of "crowd narration", which has a strong sense of presence, so that readers can experience their favorite characters from the first perspective, and cross-add and observe the details to fully display the grand story.
6. "Four Hours of Life, Nine Tastes of Tang Poems"
Douban score 8.6
Author: Xiong Yi
"Four Hours of Life, Nine Tastes of Tang Poetry" is a literary book that combines the life conditions of modern people to interpret Tang poetry works.
In the book, Xiong Yi selects fifty very representative Tang poems, which are divided into different emotional and scene units such as ascending, nostalgia, zhuangxin, pastoral, gathering, traveling, sadness, feeling time, and admiration, integrating the lives and emotions of modern people into them, overlapping the scenes in Tang poems and the scenes of modern people, deeply excavating the unspoken meaning of Tang poems and the taste of life contained in them, evoking our profound resonance.
Douban user @ Qiao An's Anzhai: The amount of information is very large, the author exchanged a lot of life problems with readers through Tang poems, and the emotional state of the Tang Dynasty literati was also introduced to the readers. It resonates a lot and loves it very much.
7. "Little Mushrooms" (all 2 volumes)
Douban score 8.4
Author: Fourteen Continents
In 2020, the Earth's magnetic poles disappeared, humans died in large quantities due to cosmic radiation, and in the past hundred years, organisms began to mutate and devour each other, while humans were left with tens of thousands of people in the artificial base struggling.
In the abyss of the xenomorph grows a small mushroom with self-consciousness, which has become a human being and named Anzu after the death of human anze. Ann is determined to go to the human base to find the spores that he has taken from the humans.
Lu Feng is the Inquisitor Colonel of the Human Base, who is responsible for the xenomorphs and will be shot as soon as the xenomorphs are discovered. However, the mutation of An Fold concealed Lu Feng's eyes, and the story of humans and xenomorphs unfolded...
Douban user @Mberose: the wasteland background is set meticulously, the protagonist small mushroom is very cute, and the theoretical knowledge of science fiction elements can withstand scrutiny.
8. "Cat's Rose"
Douban score 8.1
The story takes place at the end of the world, the earth is abandoned after suffering viruses, wars, and pollution, and the human alliance pilots the Voyager spacecraft away from The Earth, sailing through the interstellar spacecraft in search of new habitable planets, and the people who get the Voyager ticket are elites in various fields.
The ship is full of doubts, and in the shadows there is a conspirator who wants to destroy mankind, and the protagonist is a genius scientist on the spaceship, who unites with everyone to find the mastermind behind the scenes and protect the human spaceship.
At the end of the story, the "Voyager" spacecraft finally found a planet suitable for human habitation, but what was not expected was that this planet was actually the Earth abandoned by humans...
Douban user @ Holding Ying: The settings and brain holes are excellent. I like this fantasy work that does not deliberately render the dark humanity, but focuses on space exploration, the continuation of civilization, and the relationship between Kozhe - the end of reason is romance; from its unchanging point of view, things and I are endless.
9. "Good Coffee"
Douban score 8.0
Author: (Sun)Hidenori Izaki
Good Coffee is a book full of professional coffee making techniques and an exploration of the taste of coffee.
From the time Hidenori Izaki began making coffee at the age of 16 to becoming the winner of the World Barista Competition, all of his thoughts on coffee making are presented in the book. From how to choose beans to choose the caffeine method, utensils, proportions, production principle analysis and other aspects show the conditions required to make a good cup of coffee.
The book not only shows the coffee making techniques, but also allows readers to discover their favorite flavors from multiple perspectives, and they can also make delicious coffee at home.
Douban user @Alexandra_xy: As an amateur coffee lover, I appreciate the discussion of "preferences" in this book. Some of the coffee guides I've read before tend to introduce coffee culture and production processes in general terms, and lack tailor-made coffee guidelines for each reader.
The so-called tailor-made is basically to help readers understand their "preferences", for example, do they like bitter or sour coffee? Prefer a refreshing or full-bodied coffee? Let's dig deeper, what kind of fragrance does the reader like? Of course, finding out your "preferences" for taste is only the first step, and then, "Good Coffee" starts with beans and introduces it step by step, with a clear structure and no difficulty in reading.
10. Insights
Author: (U.S.) Robert Wright
It's a book of insights that subverts cognition. The authors corroborate the philosophical ideas in Buddhism with the cutting-edge achievements in modern psychology, evolutionary psychology, modern brain science and other research fields, helping us to recognize the causal relationship between gene carriers, evolutionary psychology and human self-consciousness, and liberating us from the limited perspective of natural selection.
This book confirms the Buddhist view through the theory of evolutionary psychology, and then helps people discover a more authentic self, harvest the great wisdom of life, gain insight into the truth of things, and truly experience the original beauty of the world.
Douban user @summer: The author popularizes the operation of the brain from the perspective of evolutionary psychology, thus supporting "why Buddhism is true", which is quite novel and interesting. Basically you can use it as a popular science book on brain thinking, or a philosophy book on Buddhist concepts, and it's highly readable.
Genes in order to continue to design countless "desires" and "fears" for the brain, the brain with the burden of ten thousand years of history is often in an illusion, the "self" is always changing, and it does not exist permanently, and life is "endlessly bitter"! The deepest sentence: "The price of bloodline survival may be a lifetime of discomfort." "Thinking about a life of hardship, I suddenly became enlightened.
The Spring Festival Not Boring Program is officially launched! Enjoy every moment with the most comfortable way to read a book, and add some ingredients to your New Year's holiday!
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