-- I'm a book worm, but it does NOT mean that I know more.
2024 Feb & Mar
| No. | Title | Author | Rating(out of 5) | Category | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Place 一个男人的位置 |
Annie Ernaux | 3.5 | Biography | How a daughter saw, felt, and evaluated her relationship with her dad? What role does mother play in the father-daughter relationship? |
| 2 | Invisible Women 看不见的女性 |
Caroline Criadoperez | 4 | Feminism | There are many things that we take for granted, but only after we put gender into them do we realize that they are designed for men!There are so many unseen aspects of women, both in the light and in the dark, that it takes a lot of thinking outside the box to break the so-called "traditions". |
| 3 | The King Bows and Kills 每一句话语都坐着别的眼睛 |
Herta Müller | 5 | Literature | It's been too long since I've read words so life-affirming that I feel like I'm going to be peeled back and seen through by the author the next second.Every word spoken harbors the gaze of another, and the diary can't be completely honest with itself, with third-party eyes running through every second, and every corner.å |
2024 Jan
| No. | Title | Author | Rating(out of 5) | Category | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Writer's Diary (思考就是我的抵抗) |
Virginia Wolf | 4 | Literature | The second half during the war is more attractive. |
| 2 | Becoming Beauvoir：A Life 成为波伏瓦 |
Kate Kirkpatrick | 5 | Biography | Never before have I felt so much like a man in terms of my worldview and mode of living. To see Beauvoir, forever in conflict, growing, struggling, to see how women struggle to strip away the shackles that bind them to men, to see women's unconscious self-attack and self-rescue. |
| 3 | Sakhalin Island 萨哈林旅行记 |
Anton Chekhov | 3.5 | Travel Notes | More serious than a travel diary, more entertaining than an academic book. Honestly I'm not a fan. |
| 4 | The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild 遇见动物的时刻 |
Craig Childs | 3 | Literature | Fun to read. All creatures have souls. |
| 5 | WOMEN & POWER：A MANIFESTO 女性与权力 |
Mary Beard | 4 | Feminism | A booklet. Until today, the female figure remains absent from the top echelons of power, and the gender violence of civilization lies in its neglect. When will we think of words like "powerful" without the first male figure coming to mind? There is a long way to go in stripping oppressive positive words of their gender shackles, in order to get them out of the gender frame. |
| 6 | The Memory Chalet 记忆小屋 |
Tony Judt | 3 | Autobiography | Memoirs. You can always find something to resonate when a historian wrote autobiography. |
| 7 | 观念的水位 | 刘瑜 | 3 | Political Critics | 不好看，不值得，不推荐。 |
| 8 | 成为雍正 : 从隐忍的胤禛到帝国权力巅峰 | 李正 | 3 | History | 个人比较喜欢的B站历史区up主，但说实话写成书就没必要了。 |
| 9 | 鳄鱼手记 | 邱妙津 | 3 | Literature | 台湾文学有时候敏感到了令我不适的地步。女性之间的爱实在无需如此撕心裂肺。 |
| 10 | The Roots of Romanticism 浪漫主义的根源 |
Sir Isaiah Berlin | 5 | Literature Critics | Finished it on my flight back to the States. Rather than philosophy, this is more of literature critics. Berlin's writing is elegant, beautiful, and incredibly smooth. I love this world more after reading this. |
| 11 | Patrimony: A True Story 遗产 |
Philip Roth | 3.5 | Memoirs | How we face the death of others, the death of our loved ones, and our own death? The topic of death is something that runs through our whole life. |
| 12 | Look at the Lights, My Love | Annie Ernaux | 4 | Literature | Shopping with Nobel Prize Winner. Fun to read. |
| 13 | 最小的海 | 叶昕昀 | 3 | Literature | 没有达到预期。 |
| 14 | Cinderalla's Sisters: A Revionist History of Footbinding 缠足：“金莲崇拜”盛极而衰的演变 |
高彦颐 Dorothy Ko | 4 | History | Definitions of Female Beauty, Culture, Power, and Sex ...... Who says there is no alternative to foot binding now? From the individual to the group, the gaze of others is a shackle that is extremely difficult to break free from. |
2023 Dec
| No. | Title | Author | Rating(out of 5) | Category | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II 第二次世界大战后的欧洲 |
Keith Lowe | 4 | History | There is a wealth of data and historical information, some of which is yet to be verified. After reading the book, I realized that: 1) no ordinary person on one side of a war is a winner; 2) there is no limit to the evil of human nature; and 3) the power of "identity" and "emotion" is a kind of leverage that can be used for politics. |
| 2 | All Men Are Mortal 人都是要死的 |
Simone de Beauvoir | 4 | Literature | Finished this in a bookstore in Zhengzhou. You may feel blue after reading it. |
| 3 | 秦岭记 | 贾平凹 | 3 | Literature | 没有惊喜也不太失望。贾平凹的文字瑰丽诡谲，想象力丰富，不过读完忘得也快。 |