世界读书日/ World Book Day
"The fragrance of books is overflowing, the sea of poetry is sailing, the classics are flavorful, and the room temperature is always new". Reading can give people wisdom and strength, reading can cultivate sentiment and improve personality, and reading can increase knowledge and broaden horizons.
Today (April 23) is World Book Day, and Warm News recommends good books that you can't miss↓↓↓
poetry
Wang Jibing "People in a hurry"
Wang Jibing, delivery man, poet. In between delivering takeaways, he used poetry to record his exhaustion with his fellow workers. This book is the first collection of the author's poems. Among them, "The Man in a Hurry" was praised by readers as "the poetry of real laborers".
prose
Li Juan "Altay's Corner"
Li Juan was born in Xinjiang in 1979. He started writing in 1999. His works have won the People's Literature Award, the Lu Xun Literature Award, the Zhu Ziqing Prose Award, the China Good Book Award, and the China Outstanding Publication Award. At one point, he followed his family into the Altai mountain pastures, ran a grocery store and tailor shop, and lived with Kazakh herders who lived on water and grass. Reading Li Juan, rather than saying that the words are beautiful and the stories are moving, it is better to say that I prefer her life attitude of "knowing the world and not being sophisticated". It is a book that records daily life, but it can drag people out of their daily trivialities.
novel
Yang Benfen "My Fragrance"
Yang Benfen, born in Xiangyin, Hunan Province in 1940, was admitted to Xiangyin Industrial School at the age of 17, and later entered the branch of Jiangxi Gongda University. After that, he worked hard for a few decades to make a living, married and taught children, and then retired from a transportation company. He began to write in the first year of his career, and his achievement was to see four female trios, and his achievements were remarkable. "My Fragrance" is the third of them, which tells the story of 60 years of marriage. It is the pain and confusion that no one knows, to all you, me and her who are not seen. Readers' comments: "Flowers bloom from the ashes, fragrant in the corners." ”
novel
Lin Yi "Tide Chart"
Lin Yi was born in 1984 in Shenzhen, Guangdong. The first novel, Flowing Stream, was the finalist of Douban's annual Chinese literature and the 3rd Blancpain Ideal Country Literature Award. In 2021, with "Flowing Stream", he won the Most Potential Newcomer Award at the Southern Literary Festival. This book is her second full-length novel, which was first published in the fifth issue of Harvest literary magazine in 2021. It is a little difficult for readers from non-Cantonese-speaking areas, but as long as you read it, you will be amazed by the unique style and imagery of the language. Testimonial: Special enough.
culture
Zhang Lixian (Editor-in-Chief) "Reading Library 2202"
Zhang Lixian is a well-known publisher and writer. As the editor-in-chief of "Reading Library", he single-handedly created a miracle in the Chinese publishing industry to continue to publish a reading brand "Reading Library". There are more than 100 books in the "Reading Library" series so far, and each one has its own charm. If you are interested, you can try to read one or two books. Reading "2202", you will find that the problems mentioned in the book are also problems that we often encounter, and you will have insights.
Prose + Poetry
Kitajima "Someone Must Rewrite Love"
"Someone Must Rewrite Love" is a collection of works by the famous poet Kitajima, with 46 classic poems and prose works, presenting a complete picture of the poet, essayist, painter and photographer Kitajima's creation. The arrangement of "one poem and one text" is like the continuation of the Chinese poetic tradition. From "Memories of the Storm" to "The Exile of Words" to "The Book of the Earth", the three collections of poems and essays fully show the poet's life journey from childhood to the present, reflecting the turbulent landscape of the times in the second half of the twentieth century.
novel
Ma Boyong "The Eater of the South"
Ma Boyong is a writer. Winner of the People's Literature Award, Zhu Ziqing Prose Award, and Mao Dun Newcomer Award. His works have been rated as "the genealogy of historical literary creation since the May Fourth Movement", and he is committed to the exploration of "historical possibility novels". "The Eater of the South" is Ma Boyong's new historical novel in 2024. The gluttonous Han envoy Tang Meng came to the gluttonous holy land of Nanyue, but he did not expect to be involved in the political disputes of the Nanyue court, the confrontation between the north and the south, the estrangement of ethnic groups, the struggle for power, and the rise and fall of national policies...... The situation is turbulent, and the only thing he can trust is food, and the only thing that can break the situation is the heart that pursues the ultimate food - the so-called "food does not deceive people, everyone will reveal their true nature in front of it." ”
art
【USA】Gao Juhan "Farewell on the Riverside"
James Cahm, born in California in 1926, was a long-time professor of art history and graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, and an advisor to the Department of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy at the Freer Museum of Art in Washington. Farewell to the River Bank explores the development of painting in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, and discusses not only how Ming painters continued the painting achievements of the Yuan Dynasty and sought innovation, but also discussed the expression and development of court painting and local painting schools such as Zhejiang, Wu (Suzhou), and Nanjing. The book also has a brilliant discussion of the relationship between the social and economic status of the painter and his painting style.
Documentary
Yang Suqiu, Why Should There Be a Library in the World?
Yang Suqiu, Ph.D. in Literature from Soochow University, Associate Professor of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington, and Promoter of Public Reading. From 2020 to 2021, he led the construction of the Beilin District Library in Xi'an during the government suspension period, and was featured in CCTV News Weekly, and was known as the "public book selector". Recommended for "Gentle and accommodating, almost judgmental experiences and feelings." ”
Picture books
Jimmy "A flower blooms every day in my heart"
Jimmi, a picture book writer. In 1998, he began to create his own picture books, which are widely loved. The author not only shows amazing creativity and varied narrative style, presents a unique life landscape, affectionate and charming, and has a strong personal style.
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Source: Warm News WeChat public account
Planning and co-ordinating: Wang Hongmei
Booklist arrangement: Fresh
Editor: Li Rong
Proofreader: Liu Jinglu
Review: Wang Boyang