Wei Xiaohe, a young writer and book critic who works with books, explains why you should read books

Why do we read?

There are not many people who can calm down and read books now, and even fewer people can write down their feelings and share them with everyone after reading the book. I like to read, I think reading can experience different lives, different experiences, different growth, from which you can understand more of the true meaning of life, happy body and mind. Reading can change the breadth of a life.

Of course, there are many kinds of books to read, and some books are for entertainment, just like watching a reality SHOW. Some books are for thinking, like watching a documentary. Some books can develop the imagination, just like watching a magical blockbuster. Looking for your favorite points, favorite sentences, favorite paragraphs, and favorite chapters in different fields, this is the joy of reading.

Today, I would like to share with you "More Than Reading" by Wei Xiaohe, a young writer and book critic who has been with you for many years, which includes the novel readings of Márquez, Hemingway, Jane Austen, Chekhov, Dickens, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Salinger, Shen Congwen, Zhang Ailing, Mu Xin, Zhang Beihai, Li Juan, Lu Nei, Shuang Xuetao, Ban Yu, Zheng Zhi's novel reading, writer's biography, literary criticism, and Wei Xiaohe's essays.

It is not difficult to see from these listed writers that there are famous artists and newcomers, which fully proves that Wei Xiaohe's reading field is still very extensive. Editors say: This "confirmation" work that belongs to young people themselves may help more young people to confirm themselves, renew themselves, and love themselves from reading - reading to the end, I hope that we can all be more tolerant to understand the complexity of the world.

At the beginning of this book, Wei Xiaohe wrote: Go up against the current with salmon-like determination! No matter how turbulent the water is, because this is your river.

It is not difficult to see that Wei Xiaohe especially loves what Janet Winterson said in "I want to be happy, I don't have to be normal", and uses this as a source of encouragement for himself, which is what I said about being able to find a sentence and a story that I like in a book, and this book is not read in vain.

Wei Xiaohe has published works such as "Independence Day: Resisting the World with a Study", "Reading in a Good Time", and "Offending the Classics". And over the years, I have been reading books and writing reviews, not only found the golden house from the books, but also published my own books through sharing, which can be described as a harvest.

Wei Xiaohe, after the 90s, from reading "Harry Potter", has now enriched his inner world through a lot of reading, and also let more readers feel the charm of reading through sharing. Everything Wei Xiaohe did explained why he wanted to read. Reading, one is to read to yourself, enrich yourself, and understand a more wonderful outside world; the other is to read to others, share the feelings you have read, let more people know more books, and thus find their favorite books in many books, which is a very rare thing. After all, there are too few people reading books now, and the books published by publishing houses are uneven, resulting in many good works being published and no one sees them. I like the writer Lan Xiaolong because I watched the TV series "Soldier Assault", so it is a very remarkable thing to recommend the books I see in simple language.

Wei Xiaohe's book is to recommend to readers the books he has read and impressed himself, in this book you can see a lot of books that you have not read before, and there is a desire to read.

In fact, there are many people who write book reviews now, and I am one of them. Over the years, I have recommended nearly a thousand books, and I thought that the feelings I wrote after reading them were also very serious and could be calm. But after reading Wei Xiaohe's book review, I feel that the gap is still very large.

First, the book reviews I write are too simplistic. Most of what I write about is the feeling after reading, that is, I share some of the feelings of reading with everyone, and I do not discuss enough about the writing method and the background of creation;

Second, the reviews I write are too similar. Most of the books I have read according to a template, resulting in different types and different qualities of books reading without much difference;

Third, the reviews I write are too superficial. The main thing is that I did not share the essence and brilliance of the book with everyone, resulting in book reviews that are recommended and introduced, and sometimes the content written has little to do with the content of the book.

To find your own shortcomings, you must naturally reflect on how to improve yourself. How can I read a book in depth?

It is to understand a book from multiple perspectives, to be able to ask questions, analyze, and judge a book, and to have their own views. Know not only what it is, but also why. That is, when you close the book, you can share your understanding of the book in easy-to-understand words, including the core concepts, main contents, framework, principles, advantages and disadvantages.

In "More Than Reading", Wei Xiaohe recommends classic works to everyone through the way ordinary readers chat with ordinary readers, and it can be said that his book reviews are more like self-reflection after reading books. Promote your own growth through these masterpieces.

Another thing I admire about Wei Xiaohe is that he uses popular language to recommend his favorite books to readers. I also very much want to recommend my favorite books to readers, and even hope that readers can feel the excitement of the book through my sharing, unfortunately, I am not up to this level at present.

In "More Than Reading", Wei Xiaohe through his reading of novels, talking about literature, talking about authors, but also talking about his views, some of which we have the same idea, that is, we all want to link the stories in the book with the author's creative motivation, only in this way, readers can more clearly understand the author, understand his original intention of creating novels, and the stories he shares with everyone, and the ideas and cultures that he wants to explore.

After reading every article in "More Than Reading", Wei Xiaohe wrote very carefully. He is not broadening the field of reading, talking about the advantages and disadvantages of a book in a high profile, and even deeply analyzing the personality of the characters in the book, he just shares his feelings and understanding after reading the book, and shares them with simple words, so that people who have not read the book can quickly understand the content of the book and the author's original intention of writing, and quickly determine whether the book is their favorite type.

It can be said that Wei Xiaohe is not a professional book reviewer, but the books he recommends can quickly enter your heart.