The process of reading - entertaining yourself through the "Ice Book Challenge"

Notes

After I finished writing, I found that there were two 5’s. One *** wrote 11 books, but I don’t know which one to delete. Well, buy ten and get one free. .

After the "Ice Bucket Challenge" left, the "Ice Book Challenge" came.

I was waiting for someone to invite me to play together, but there seemed to be no sign of being invited at all. I remembered that my best friend Yuan'er once said: "Cat is the person who loves reading books the most around me. "No one reads books except you." I went to Guangzhou on a business trip a few days ago and gave two books to an old classmate. The old classmate, a bookworm back then, said: "The spiritual food I brought from Beijing must be read carefully before going to work." I haven’t read a book since.” After hearing this, I couldn’t help feeling that in our busy life, reading is becoming more and more niche.

I was born in a small rural town. There was no bookstore or library. As long as the villagers are literate, they will be called "literate". When I was a child, I had no idea about the so-called cultivation of reading habits, from my family to myself. However, it seems that I am quite interested in reading, as shown in the following: I especially like to read the textbooks passed down by my brother, and even like to read my mother’s Chinese medicine instructions. What I particularly remember is that I once read with great interest a copy of "Social Knowledge" distributed by my brother. I still clearly remember that it said in it that trains leaving Beijing have odd numbers, and trains entering Beijing have even numbers... …and my mother’s instructions for traditional Chinese medicine said, “It is mainly used to treat ‘chest tightness and shortness of breath’…’deficiency of both Qi and blood’…. At that time, I particularly liked this four-character word with a mellow tone. I thought it was very interesting. Every time I see a medicine, I rush to read the instructions. In fact, I have no idea what effect the medicine is supposed to achieve. Now it seems that it is entirely a complication of reading hunger caused by lack of reading.

When I was in the fourth grade, a little classmate got a vertically arranged copy of "Zengguang Xianwen" from somewhere. It had no cover and looked very torn. But the more it goes like this, the more mysterious it feels, just like a bunch of people in costume dramas at that time who traveled all over the world to find martial arts secrets without eating, drinking or working. Therefore, everyone rushed to spread the word. When it was passed to me, I was told that it could only stay in my hands for five days. At first I copied hard, until my little hand spasmed and I couldn't hold the pen. Then I got up early in the morning to recite. When I returned to the next classmate, I memorized what I had not copied, and then supplemented the entire text through dictation. , and then carried the front one as well. Watching "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and seeing the scene of Huang Rong's mother reciting the Nine Yin Sutra in one breath, I suddenly thought of this story about memorizing "Zengguang Xianwen" when I was a child. Alas, Mother Huang was so tired that she died. Fortunately, I was still alive and kicking. To this day, there are still a few catchy sentences that can still be said: "The virtuous articles of the past taught you earnestly, and the rhyme has been enriched. You have seen and heard more. When looking at the present, we should learn from the past, and the present will not be the same without the past..."

2. "Ten Thousand Flowers Tower"

"Ten Thousand Flowers Tower" is the first novel I read. As the name implies, the title of this book is more likely to be associated with prostitution. To describe it in current language, it is a "clickbait". Because it is a serious novel. Looking back, it was also a turbulent experience.

It was in the fifth grade of elementary school. I don’t know where a friend got it from, and the period of stay in my hands was also very short. At that time, my mother would not let me read novels. As a kind-hearted "uneducated" (illiterate) woman, she wishfully divided books into two types: textbooks and novels, and in her eyes, "textbook" is a positive word, and "novel" is a derogatory word. Therefore, in order to make my mother think that I am doing my real job - reading textbooks, I must wrap the novel in a book cover.

Wrapping up the book cover, I finished reading "Ten Thousand Flowers Tower" with trepidation. After that, I read many other novels secretly in this way. More than twenty years later, I don't remember at all. I don't know, but "Ten Thousand Flowers Tower" left a deep impression on me.

3. "Ten Things to Know About Composition for Primary School Students"

This is my first extracurricular book.

My father was on a business trip and asked me what gifts I wanted. I specifically asked him to buy me a composition book - my awareness at that time was really limited! I remembered a joke in a sketch performed by Song Dandan: "Do you like watching football?" "Yes!" "Which team do you like?" "Which team do you have?" This was my understanding at that time, and I wanted my father to I bought books for myself, but I didn’t know what to buy. “Masterpieces” and “classics” didn’t come to my mind, and novels were not allowed, so I had to ask for composition books. When my father came back from a business trip, he bought me a green pen and a composition book - "Top Ten Knowledges on Composition for Primary School Students". I still remember that book about various writing techniques, such as crested heads, pork belly, etc. Leopard tail and the like. However, these techniques do not seem to work when writing. Instead, they come to mind only after writing and evaluating. However, the impact of this book is still great.

4. "Students' Idiom Dictionary"

Now, I think back to the time when I was still a young boy. I used to hold an idiom dictionary and read it page by page. , you will find it fun and weird. A name was heavily traced with a pen on the notch of this idiom dictionary. My brother said it was the name of his classmate. Because this dictionary was exchanged by my brother for his toy, and I vaguely remember that it was an ice cart (a tool made by adults for children to play on the ice out of wooden boards after the river froze in winter) with this classmate. At that time, I was thinking randomly while reading the entries and explanations of idioms. The random thoughts at that time are what is now called "open brains". For example, when I saw "Heroes working together", I thought, how do these two different animals cooperate? Thinking of the monkey charmers (buskers) who often come to the village, the monkey charmers tame the monkeys and make the monkeys make fools of themselves to make money for them. Which one is more advanced, the wolf or the embarrassed one? Who tamed whom? The wolf listens to the wolf, or the wolf listens to the wolf? They both did bad things together, how should they divide the benefits they gained? Wait, wait. This idiom dictionary brings me a lot of unknown fun.

5. "Gadfly"

After entering junior high school, the school built a library in order to cope with the so-called "universal nine-year acceptance test". However, library books cannot be borrowed. Fortunately, the teacher in charge of the library was my neighbor. Later, he made an exception and lent me books because of his acquaintanceship and because I usually had good academic performance and was considered a reliable kid in the eyes of my neighbors. . Only then did I have the opportunity to get in touch with famous books, and I read a bunch of books such as "Don Quixote", "Midsummer

A Night's Dream", "The Three Musketeers", "Jane Eyre", "The Ordinary World", etc. . Compositions were very popular at that time, so I learned from the spirit of Zhang Haidi’s eldest sister. Occasionally I read an article saying that Zhang Haidi’s idol was Paul Korchagin, so I followed it and read "How Steel Was Tempered". Paul Korchagin Jin's idol was Arthur (Gadfly), so he read "Gadfly" along the way. Maybe it has something to do with the family situation at the time. I particularly like the character of Arthur, especially the description of him laughing wildly at the executioner and making the executioner tremble with fear. I have gone through it many times in my mind, and it is particularly vivid. In the future, I often silently abstracted this "executioner" into difficulties. I felt that if I encountered any difficulties in life and treated them with ridicule and contempt, the difficulties would tremble and scare me. "Gadfly" makes a little girl's heart become very strong.

5. "Science Fiction World"

When I was in high school, I was very nervous about studying. Of course, looking back now, there is no need to be so nervous, but it is impossible to repeat it. My experience is that during those three years, I basically threw myself into a sea of ??test papers and questions. Classes, self-study... just read "Science Fiction World" to relax a little. It is often said that "young people don't know what it's like to be sad", but in high school I felt quite sad because the college entrance examination was so important that every slight change in grades would cause huge mood swings. Fortunately, the vastness and vastness shown in "Science Fiction World" will free me from worrying about scores for a moment in time. Therefore, during my high school days, I watched "Science Fiction World" when I was happy and "Science Fiction World" when I was sad.

6. "Global History"

"Global History" is the first book I bought.

It's a bit funny to say that the motivation for buying this book at the time was that I wanted to improve my history scores by reading this book. I'm not very good at studying history. I learned things like the gunshots at Lexington and the Bourbon Restoration in a vague way. However, it hit the ground hard, and although the historical results did not improve significantly, it gave me a huge impact on my thinking. On the one hand, it is a re-evaluation of "textbooks". A book that I thought was very thick and difficult in the past suddenly became so thin and simple; on the other hand, all kinds of boring knowledge that I had a headache to memorize have become A real group of people once had the experience of warmth. At that time, they felt that they were suddenly detached, beyond reciting and scoring points, and had a strong interest in understanding, observation and insight.

7. "Vanilla Hill"

"Vanilla Hill" is an autobiographical love novel. The process of reading this book was full of emotions every time. Oh, that is the best love in the world I can imagine! When I was writing this, I flipped through it again and saw this advice: "Cherish your time, do your own thing, and always keep a peaceful heart." How nice!

8. "The Rule of Law and Its Local Resources"

This is a professional academic book. I chose to study law in college, and the teacher gave me many reading lists. Some can understand it, some can't understand it; some insist on reading it to the end, and some can't read it at all. Among all professional books, the most influential one is "The Rule of Law and Its Local Resources", so much so that it can be described as "Su Li and Its Surroundings" for a period of time. So, it was this book that inspired my interest in studying law.

9. The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip ("Black Tulip") is the first original novel I read. At the same time, reading this book also started a new habit, which is to write down the last sentence of each book after reading it. The last sentence of this book is: The man who suffers much has the right to be happy.

10. "Experiencing Investment Banking"

"Experiencing Investment Banking" was planned by me as an editor. Books read by first readers. It is also the best-selling and most influential book I have written so far. Later, when the book was made into a hardcover version, the author wrote in the preface that "My personal experience in investment banking changed my life." As an editor, I still felt very gratified. Maybe there are not many opportunities for a person's life to be changed. As an editor Being able to be involved in something like this through a book made me even more committed to my career as an editor.

There is a saying that you can probably understand a person by looking at his or her reading list. I looked back at the ten books on my train. Fortunately, it didn't seem to expose me (smirk).