A Different Life, Ten Thousand Books and Ten Thousand Miles of Road August 5, 2017, the 155th article of the 1,000-day reading diary.

I received a call from a familiar courier boy: Teacher Yin, another book has arrived.

I rushed to the school gate to get the book. I saw the puzzled expression on the courier's face: Why do you buy books every day? Can you read so many books?

That posture makes it seem like I am not an earthling at all, but an interstellar freak.

I just smile and don’t say much.

I couldn’t wait to open my express bag, looking at this book and touching that book. Every book is full of fine details that make me want to be in it and forget about reality. Open your arms so warmly to welcome the pilgrimage of my soul, and take me to spread my wings and fly to the heights of my soul.

Throughout the summer vacation, I read, bought books, coded, and read to my children... My life almost always revolved around words and books.

The summer vacation lasted only a month, and I had already bought more than 4,000 yuan in books.

Woo hoo, it’s really not greed!

It’s because I read every day.

Every time you read a book, you will find that the book will introduce some other masterpieces in this field. Or, when reading a related book, an idea flashes, and you think of another field, and then you go online to search for books in this field and get back ten or twenty books. Therefore, regarding reading, bibliotherapy, mythology, history, psychology, philosophy, writing... my reading fields are expanding day by day.

As soon as I entered the book, I was as deep as the sea, and I neglected to leave home ever since!

If I bought a lot of books during that time, it just proves that I read a lot during that time.

What about the trip you promised? I can't bear it. Ten thousand times I have used the famous words of the great Argentinian poet and director of the National Library Borges to state my ideal: If there is a paradise in the world, it should be like a library.

So, for me, a little woman with no ambitions, the paradise on earth is really nowhere else but in my little study.

Of course, in Changsha, which is as hot as a steamer, paradise must also be a place where you can wear pajamas, blow on the air conditioner, and occasionally nibble on a watermelon. The feeling of being in such a place is indescribable, a hundred times better than the sensory enjoyment brought by delicacies like bird's nest and shark's fin.

Of course, there is also the elf-like child cheering beside me.

Sometimes she pestered me to tell her stories, and sometimes she was cute and smart and acted coquettishly, irritating me. I always used my throat with severe laryngitis to give her my heart and soul and read a few to her. Hour. The novels with twists and turns and interesting folk stories take us thousands of miles away and thousands of years ago.

The words, after the vocal cords vibrate and come out of the throat, seem to become magical and regain their vitality. It seems to have jumped out of the book, and you can smell its breath, smell its fragrance, and see its gorgeous pictures. The emotions are stronger, the plot is more gripping, and the emotions are fuller and more intense.

When you look at the person in front of you, sometimes you open your mouth in surprise; sometimes you giggle happily; sometimes you nervously hold your hand tightly, as if the witches and monsters in the book will really catch you. She eats it with trepidation; sometimes she dances excitedly; sometimes she is sad without saying a word and even has tears in her eyes; sometimes when she hears the warmth, she runs to you, kisses you hard, and expresses " I love you, Mom”… What is that feeling?

You will be happy and proud that you have used your own voice, your own vision, and your own emotions to build such a unique and magical world for your children to comfort, comfort, and enjoy.

This kind of world is something that many Chinese children cannot enjoy. Although those children have parents who drive BMWs and live in villas, and have glamorous and high-status family members. However, many of their children are taken care of by nannies, TV nannies, mobile phone nannies... They are really busy or have no time to buy books for their children. Or, even if you buy it, you don’t have time to read it to your children!

And our simple home is full of books. At the same time, as a mother, I also have long winter and summer vacations to satisfy my children’s desire to listen to books. Therefore, in our daily life, we always hold a book in both big and small hands, or our mother is diligently reading in the study, and our son is guarding her cow and listening to the book and listening to wonderful stories.

There are many memorable moments in my reading time during the summer vacation.

During bedtime story time, the mother and son lay comfortably on the bed and read the international award-winning novel "The Monster Who Fell in Love with Reading". Let’s read the preface first. I read a passage from Professor Mei Zihan, whom I respect, who enthusiastically recommends books to children:

"Many years later, when you become a father or a mother, how will you treat your son, My daughter said: Read them, my child!

You will also be a grandpa, grandma, grandpa and grandma. You say to your grandchildren: Read them, I will treasure them all my life! "

Yabeibei raised her little face, hugged my neck, and said to me: I will tell my child, "Although you have boxes of jewelry and cabinets of gold, You will never be richer than me because I have a mother who reads to me.

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I looked at her in surprise.

Because, although she did not repeat this passage completely, I really don’t know when she remembered the most critical idea in it. .

I asked her: When did you know this passage?

She said: It was when you gave a lecture at Sisyphus Bookstore.

As a mother, I am gratified because the child remembers and understands the essence of this passage. She knows the meaning of her mother reading it hard to her every day, and she is willing to let this practice continue to pass on. To her children.

This reminds me of an incident when Clinton and her wife were reading a story to the children in a school when their subordinates anxiously told them, When such a huge event happened, the couple said: "Don't worry, let's finish reading this story to the children."

Maybe you will think that the president and his wife are simply crazy. There is no priority, but as you know, the family of Clinton and his wife has always had a tradition of parents reading stories to their children. And another president, Obama, even with a busy schedule, still often takes time to read to his baby daughter. They read aloud. Because this is how Obama’s single mother expresses her love for Obama!

In the West, this kind of reading is an indispensable ritual for children!

Now, through me, our family will continue this family tradition. Should I be really happy?

Another thing is that we read the famous Japanese picture book master Kazuro Iwamura together the night before. The "14 Mouse" and "7 Mouse" series of stories are so exquisite that the fiery red of autumn and the green of spring make people want to be in the picture. During the hearty breakfast, Yabel actually started to swallow her saliva. She held my hand again and again and said sweetly: Mom, dear mom, good mom, you have to make me such a breakfast tomorrow morning, like this. A delicious and delicious breakfast that made me drool.

And when we read about a big family of 14 mice fishing together, digging yams, and admiring the moon together... She started shouting again: Mom, I want a sister, I want a younger brother, seven younger sisters and younger brothers.

I laughed: If you have so many younger brothers and sisters, your mother won’t have so much time to spend with you. Ya thought for a while. , I think what my mother said does make sense, but she added: It doesn't matter, I can take my younger brothers and sisters to play together.

It makes sense, but this ideal is too far from reality. Yuan, Mom really can't help you achieve it. I explained to her.

"However, we can't achieve it in real life, but we can still achieve it in the book." "Yeah." So, we continued to read the story of 14 mice. The child laughed again.

Children are always easily satisfied. It would be nice if a wish that cannot be fulfilled in reality can be fulfilled in a book. After all, witches, magic, princesses and princes... are all impossible to experience in person. It would be great if books could be used to replace reality and allow children to escape from the constraints of reality.

Another day, I read this book of Jewish folk tales.

Folk stories full of wisdom. The various ways to solve problems are beyond children’s imagination. They are really a source of wisdom! Ya jumped up hearing this.

Read the story of hell and heaven. In Ya's imagination, hell is a gloomy and terrifying place, while heaven should be a place of harmony and happiness with the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers. However, the hell created by the clever Jews is the same as heaven. The only difference is that people in heaven can help each other, while people in hell can only drool over the food and wine.

Ya listened to the story and was shocked. This overturned her understanding. She couldn't accept it for a while, so she asked me to put down the book and discussed it with her for an hour.

As a result, this story simply penetrated into her bones. She deeply understood the meaning of sharing and helping each other.

I was surprised to find that she no longer seemed to ask me to wash the dishes, and even took the initiative to tidy up the living room.

I remember a writer said, what book should we read? Naturally, we want to read the kind of book that can give us a "kick in the face" feeling. I think this is what it feels like to read folktales like this.

Because, in this book "Jewish Folktales", almost every story is so unexpected yet profound and alarming.

Even though the sea of ??books is as deep as the sea, we will have no regrets in the end.

Haizi said: From tomorrow on, be a happy person, feed horses, chop wood and travel around the world!

So, we say: From today on, be a happy person, buy books, read and write articles, these are the three major things in life, how beautiful it is!

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