I am a person who likes reading, but I have forgotten many articles and books I have read, which makes me doubt the significance of reading, but after reading this, I feel relieved: the books you read are like the meals you eat. Although you don't remember what you ate, the food you ate will become a part of your bones and body, which makes you who you are now. I am grateful for the books I have read, which make me grow into a better self.
I was born and raised in the countryside, my parents are farmers, and I have only studied for a few days. Fortunately, my grandmother is a Christian and often tells me stories in the Bible and teaches me to sing poems in the Bible. This is probably my earliest reading enlightenment, so I will always miss my grandmother. After I started studying in primary school, I was not satisfied with listening. I started reading books by myself, reading stories that grandma told and never told in the Bible, and reciting catchy children's songs. In the harsh environment at that time, I read all the books with stories and children's songs that I had the opportunity to see. I can recite almost all the texts in the Chinese textbook before grade five. My greatest wish at that time was to have a modern Chinese dictionary. Picture books were very popular at that time, and I still remember the illustrations in Revenge of the Prince, which I bought for twenty cents. My two favorite books in primary school are two self-study textbooks "Rain and sasha vujacic" and "Gifts for Girls in Winter" issued by the school. I still remember some stories and nursery rhymes. At that time, there was a book that opened my strong desire to read, called 365 nights. I have only read this book a few times, and most of the time I heard the story in this book from my neighbor and sister who are three years older than me. At that time, I longed for this story book of Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Nights as much as Lu Xun longed for a set of paintings of Shan Hai Jing when he was a child. I even chose my dream: to be a librarian when I grow up.
After junior high school, the school is still in the countryside, but the village is a little bigger. The school only has textbooks, and the extracurricular books are very poor. The only extracurricular reading provided by the school is the guide for middle school students in each issue. In my memory, there are only a few four-year junior high school Chinese textbooks and self-study textbooks given to me by my neighbor and sister (I also have the impression that "I am under the Northern Lights"). Meanwhile, I also read the original Journey to the West borrowed by my classmates. In the summer vacation after the senior high school entrance examination, I read the book Ordinary World, which had a great influence on my thoughts. That holiday, I almost dropped out of school because of an accident in the senior high school entrance examination and family financial difficulties. Therefore, in loneliness and depression, I read the Ordinary World back and forth five times, and every time I read it, I will draw great spiritual strength from it. When I encounter setbacks and difficulties, a sentence in Sun Shaoping's letter to his sister Sun Lanxiang always comes to my mind: Is the pain for nothing? It should make us great! )
Despite the twists and turns, I got into the normal school in the city as I wished. Here, I have to spit out the library of our old normal school. The library has only two small windows for borrowing books. Most of the books you want to borrow are not available. What you can borrow is the book just returned by other students on the windowsill. This can't satisfy my strong desire to read at all, and I have no spare money to buy books. So I didn't read many books during my normal school days, but I still have an impression on Dream of Red Mansions (I like it very much, and I have read many times to understand it, and I have also read many articles and books on Dream of Red Mansions), Fairy Tales of Qing Dynasty, Mirror Flower Garden, Muslim Funeral in Huo Da, Life of Lu Yao, Cultural Journey of Yu, Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu. Pride and Prejudice, Young Werther, Christopher john cleese and Niu Cong have been adapted into Gone with the Wind, The Roots of African American History, Red and Black by Stendhal, How Many Flowers Fall in My Dreams by San Mao and Misty Rain by Qiong Yao. Haruki Haruki's Norwegian Forest and One Hundred Years of Solitude have both been read, but I still have to bite the bullet and finish reading them. At that time, I liked Wang Guozhen's poems very much and bought a book, Poems of Wang Guozhen. Although the pages turned over are worn out, they are all on my desk now and have been borrowed by students as favorite books. Of course, I also read popular periodicals and magazines at that time, such as Stories, Readers, Boys and Girls and so on.
After graduation, he was assigned to a middle school and became a junior high school Chinese teacher because of his excellent recruitment results. Because of my disposable income, I started my free reading at this time. The books I read include professional books and literary works. Some of them were bought by themselves, and some were collected by the school. The earliest professional books were The Korean Army and New China Education and Qian Menglong and the Art of Reading Guidance in the Educators' Growth Series. Later, I read Good Students, Learning Law, Suhomlinski, Advice for Teachers and Reflection on Educational Habits edited by Yan and Li Yi. Later, I went to the city to study, and I personally listened to Wang Jun's class, which was very admirable. I bought her "A Young Teacher's Professional Growth Road" and "Listening to Wang Jun Classics" (two books). I learned about teacher Shi Jinxia from Himalayan listening software, and read Irregular Chinese Teaching and Reading is a teacher's lifelong practice recommended by her blog. These professional books are beneficial to me and have benefited me a lot. As for other books, I have read a lot of miscellaneous books.
Because children and teenagers are eager for books, I made up for this regret after work. Grimm's Fairy Tales, Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne of Green Gables, Het Achterhuis, Little Peas by the Window, Little Prince, Education of Love, Childhood, Insects, Two Wan Li under the Sea, Captain Grant's Children, The Adventures of Huck Belifen, The Adventures of Huck Belifen. Shen's Dream of Red Mansions, Red Ribbon, Zhang Tianyi's Secret of Treasure Gourd, Yang's Diary of Laughing Cat and Ma Xiaotiao, etc. I've read all the children's literature I can reach, and some of them have been read more than once.
Books that I didn't have a chance to read when I was in college were all on standby at this time: Lu Xun, Lao She, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Shen Congwen, Zhu Ziqing, Cao Yu, Ye Shengtao, Guo Moruo, Lin Yutang, Zhu Guangqian, Feng Jicai, Wang Zengqi, Wang Meng, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Bi Feiyu, Liu, Zhou, Lin Qingxuan and Liu Yong. In foreign literature, I have read Insects, Resurrection, Dead Soul, Notre Dame, Les Miserables, Smiling Man, The Old Man, The Old Man and the Sea, Selected Short Stories by Mo Bosang, Earl of Queshan, Shakespeare's Plays, Oliver Twist and so on. Some novels and drama works such as Tale of Genji have been read carefully, and some have been read like a fish in the throat, so some books are profound in content, and some can't remember the specific content.
After marriage, under the influence of my husband, I fell in love with movies. For good-looking movies and TV series, I like to compare and read the original works. Some original works are better than TV dramas (such as The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption and Suddenly Seven Days), while others are not as good as TV dramas (such as The Queen of the Palace and Twilight). Some of them are equally wonderful (such as Harry Potter, The Kite Runner, Secret, etc.). ).
My husband is also a reader. The depth and breadth of his reading often make me a Chinese teacher feel ashamed. The complete works of San Mao and a set of more than 50 English-Chinese translation abbreviated versions of the series of foreign famous books "Bookworm" are my favorite books in his collection. Under his recommendation, I also read Carnegie's complete works, American minimalist Joshua Becker's The Weakness of Human Nature, minimalism (also known as Finding the Life You Want under Everything You Have), Li Xiaolai's Take Time as a Friend, Tony Buzan's Thinking Guide, Zhong Daolong's Reverse Learning Method and Ajdero's.
Later, I had children and read more books on parenting. Among them, I think the books that are particularly helpful to me are: a series of books that are instructive for feeding children by Zheng Yuqiao, a pediatrician in Beijing, a classic baby volume of parenting in Zheng Yuqiao, a classic baby volume of parenting in Zheng Yuqiao, and Zheng Yuqiao's treatment of children. Sun Ruimin's The Sensitive Period of Grasping Children and Yin Jianli's A Good Mother Is Better than a Good Teacher are very helpful in educating children abroad.
Later, I bought an e-book reader, which made reading more convenient. I've read a lot, and I'm impressed by those things in the Ming Dynasty, when superstars fell, for fifteen years in Wanli. Later, I used my mobile phone to read books: browse the news, pay attention to the recommended articles of WeChat official account, and read books in JD.COM. COM, as well as books recommended by friends on WeChat. Great old people read classics, and new historical records are all interesting and good books found in the official account of WeChat.
If listening to books is a kind of reading, then listening to songs on the radio with my grandfather when I was a child is also a kind of reading: ballads such as The Legend of Heroes with Bridled Eyebrows, The Legend of Tonglin, The Water Margin, The Bagua Palm and The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties started my journey of listening to books and reading. Now I often don't have time to read books, or I can't understand difficult books. I once again chose to listen to books, Himalayan APP and Daodao APP, which are the software I often use to listen to books.
Nowadays, the pressure of work and life is increasing, and the time for reading and listening to books is getting less and less. But reading is still my favorite way to release stress. Every day after work, after the children fall asleep, they will find that their day is not wasted. As long as my eyes can see and my ears can hear, I will keep reading and listening. Because life is endless, progress should not stop. Reading will make me progress and let me meet a better self.