It is said that in the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire experienced a crisis, the economy withered, the society was in turmoil, and the ruling class suppressed the people everywhere. At that time, a Christian saint, Valentinus, was arrested and imprisoned. In prison, he fell in love with the warden's daughter, but Valentine was executed on February 14, 270.
Before his death, he wrote a long suicide note to the warden's daughter, in which he expressed his innocence and deep admiration for his lover.
Since then, in honor of Valentine and his pure love, People have designated February 14 as Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's Day, a day on which couples express their love for each other (not to say that other days are not, of course).
Since it is Valentine's Day, as a book company, of course, we have prepared a valentine's day book list with a super atmosphere for two people to read together and increase the happiness index.
Of course, on this day when even the WeChat state has specially set the "eat dog food" state, we also specially selected a book suitable for single people to read, since there is no lover, it is better to choose a book to be today's "lover"!
"Companion Version"
The School of Life: The Truth about Love
We are not born to know how to love, but we have to spend our whole lives learning.
Few things can give people more hope for happiness than love, and few things can bring pain and frustration more effectively. We make the mistake of thinking that we naturally know how to love, so that we can easily control a love with our intuition.
However, love is a skill to be learned, not just an emotion to be perceived. This book takes us through the main problems of love in a calm and intimate tone, and it will make us believe that the success of love is no longer destined to be determined by luck alone.
Edited by British contemporary thinker Alain De Botton, the 10th anniversary of the Global Philosophy and Psychology Popularization Project "School of Life" is a blockbuster production for contemporary people to receive a lifelong "love lesson".
"Love is, with you by my side"
Explaining the word "love" in words is really a difficult thing to do.
Famous American illustrators Lisa Swarrin and Ralph Lazar use cute and healing vistas to easily depict 500 small moments of "love". For example, sending each other intimate gifts, taking a long car to meet you, exploring unknown cities hand in hand, and being excited about each other's dreams"...
These warm moments remind us that when we are with someone we like, life is full of happiness and surprises. After reading this small picture book, we can suddenly understand: love is, with you by my side.
"Love is to be together, eat a lot of meals"
Love is to be together, to eat many, many meals, and each meal is treated well.
A book about love is also a book about life, about beauty. Carefully arrange each table, when we sit around the table, let the time slow down, let the sun shine down, let love haunt us, let life be more and more tasteful.
This book is the first book in China specifically for table decoration, and the author is the aesthetics master Zeng Yanbing.
This book is not just about beautiful tables, but about the happy times at the table; not a meal, but a beautiful meeting; not a long table of lavish dinners, meticulous floral ornaments, but plants with dew collected in the garden in the morning; and not the gentlemen and ladies who sit on the edge of the business banquet, but the afternoon time of chatting and cooking.
Carefully decorating these tables is just a way to make friends and family happy, and yourself.
Happiness Is: 500 Little Things About Happiness
Is Valentine's Day without gifts and without a "sense of ceremony" still a happy Valentine's Day?
Of course, happiness is eating a delicious takeaway, a word of blessing, high-fives with people, spending time with people...
Happiness is hidden in every hour of life.
This book is a picture book about happiness jointly launched by the famous American illustrators Lisa Swarlin and Ralph Lazar. The book depicts 500 small things that make people happy, and these funny, smiley illustrations remind us that life is full of these insignificant but very happy little things.
Cherish these relaxed and pleasant daily routines, we live in happiness every day! Happiness is on Valentine's Day, but it's by no means limited to Valentine's Day.
"Single Edition"
Exquisite Solitude
"The feeling of being alone is always bad, but the feeling of being alone is often great. The two intersect to a greater or lesser extent, and how to maintain a balance between them is the subtlety, and this is what the author of this book captures. ”
Stephanie Rosenbroom combines her observations and reflections with the results of psychological and sociological research, taking her own personal experience and the lives of artists and writers as a sample, analyzing the importance of solitude for everyone, answering what is beneficial solitude and how to make solitude valuable. She records the travel footprints of the year with elegant brushstrokes, showing us how to be in the same life, through being alone, combing through the various connections she has established with the outside world, zeroing back, and better integrating into the world and gaining new energy.
Living alone is not scary at all, it's important to make being alone valuable. This book provides a lot of thinking space and methodological suggestions for this.
The Lonely City
In crowded cities, people say it's "shameful" to be alone.
How do we live if we are not entangled with another person? If we can't easily talk, how do we connect with others? Does technology bring us closer to each other, or does it lock us in a cage behind a screen?
When the author of this book lives alone in the glass caged city of New York, a state of lack of secrecy prompts her to constantly question the nature of loneliness. She took several representative contemporary artists as an entry point to use a natural flowing narrative to bring Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Henry M. , David The lives of Wernalovich and others are seamlessly woven together with their own reflections, deeply analyzing the unavoidable loneliness experienced by people living in modern cities, and presenting readers with a complete picture of loneliness from many aspects such as art, sociology, and psychology.
This book has a rare insight that can stimulate you while giving you comfort.
《Lonely Patient》
The book is a confession of an autistic person and is based on the author's true story. The world has always adopted a single measure, and everyone who is "too much" or "too little like that" has questioned their differences and ununderstood loneliness.
The style of the painting is relaxed and lively: the cool tones of the first half contrast with the warm tones of the second half, and have a warm healing power in the sunshine of Margaret.
Embrace true loneliness and accept yourself as different. Even if it doesn't fit in, it's worth being hugged.
"When Love Is Lost"
The author, Matthew Quake, is one of the top 10 most influential authors in Hollywood alongside J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, and George R. Martin.
In this book, Matthew Quake writes about the various failures of life, and then deduces the undead love in the chaos of the chaos, reminding people that what kind of person you choose to be, what kind of person you will become. So don't give up your efforts when you're sad and stop moving.
Lost love divorce, love will always have failures, and nothing will ever change. Just like every protagonist in the book in the chaos, still live with enthusiasm, whether it is love, or something else, do not give up to live a wonderful life.
The Woman Who Woke Up
It was praised as a "fictional version of The Second Sex", and even indirectly promoted the second feminist movement, was adapted into a film, and received 3 Emmy nominations, and then adapted into a radio drama by the British BBC.
Countless women believe that this book writes about their inner world that has been suppressed and even changed their lives.
The owner of the book, Mira, is a small-town girl who loves to read, and has been an independent and intelligent child since childhood. She read Nietzsche and Paine at the age of fourteen, and on the first day of school she finished all the textbooks, and the school had to let her skip grades. But this was the United States in the 1930s, and the most common occupation for women was "typist", and the theme of life was "family". Her mother's greatest expectation for her was to "marry a good family." In a small, enclosed place, her cleverness and independence make her an outlier.
Over time, she gave in. Like other girls, she got married hastily, wore tight gowns, learned to cook, cleaned up the house, gave birth to two children, and tried to make herself a "good wife and mother". Her husband has a decent job, and she lives in a big house that many people dream of. She behaves elegantly and always smiles. And only she herself knows that under the calm surface of life, she is silently collapsing...
Singles Bias
This book fits in both places, because the single group needs to be recognized and understood.
This book explores the challenges or discrimination encountered by single people in their daily lives from multiple perspectives such as social structure, policy, welfare, workplace, and other evaluations, so that people can gain insight into this lifestyle that is being chosen by more and more people.
The author also calls on people to correctly understand the life state of being single, and the resulting rethinking of the value of life. Eliminate prejudice and justify singles.
Suitable for single people to read, but also suitable for non-single people to read, especially for people who are biased against singles, in order to gain some new understanding of singles.
Talk about it
If you don't receive a gift today, or if you don't receive the gift you like, you may wish to gather in the comments section, share the gift you really want, and pray that next year's Valentine's Day gift has been realized!
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All in all, I wish you a happy day