Foreword
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that if the young generation has ideals and responsibilities, the country will have a future, the nation will have hope, and there will be a steady stream of powerful forces to achieve our development goals. In order to improve the political and theoretical level, cultural and moral quality and professional work skills of young cadres, and advocate the reading fashion of "reading more, reading good books, and being good at reading" among the majority of young people, the Xiangtan Municipal Transportation Bureau will open a column of "Positive Youth· Traffic Travel丨 Joyful Reading" from now on, so as to improve cultural quality, cultivate moral sentiments, stimulate the strength of endeavor, and promote the transmission of books through reading.
Joy reading is youth · sharing
Issue 18
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"Positive Youth· Traffic Tour" Joy Reading Sharer
Zhou Yiqi, cadre of Xiangtan Highway Maintenance Center.
Introduction: "Island Bookstore" is a novel written by United States female writer Gabriela · Zevin. The island bookstore is a Victorian-style cottage with a faded sign hanging from the porch that reads: No one is an island, every book is a world. The novel expresses the author's perception of love and redemption and his unique insight into books and bookstores, in which no one is alone.
Reading experience
"Island Bookstore": A book about love
and the story of life
"No one is an island, every book is a world". It was this sentence on the cover that attracted me to open this "Island Bookstore" - a story about love, books and life, which made me feel endless warmth and emotion in the process of reading.
The protagonist of the story, A.J. Fekri, a withdrawn, middle-aged widowed bookstore owner full of grief in his heart, has a low point in his life, and fate never seems to favor him. Just when Fekri's life is at a low point and his heart is reduced to an island, Maya, an abandoned baby who appears in the bookstore, saves him and becomes the link between him and his wife's sister Ismay, Sheriff Rambias, and Amelia, a saleswoman at the publishing house. Several people on the island support each other to get out of the predicament of life, and the isolated island condenses the most vivid life forms.
The book is titled as chapters of classic novels, and the clever narrative structure connects the novels together to form Fekri's life. Fekri reads his life as a book, and all his experiences and thoughts have deepened his understanding of his own book of life. Because of the arrival of Maya, Fekri's silent life is filled day by day. In order to provide Maya with better reading conditions, Fekri began to become close to the people on the island, and his personality was no longer withdrawn, and he changed his once stubborn attitude towards book selection, and instead sold the books that everyone liked to read, held a variety of reading clubs, exchanged ideas and methods of educating children with the residents of the island, continued reading and discussion, and people's lives became more and more interesting and vivid. The bookstore, which used to be deserted, has become not only a gathering place for the island's residents, but also a must-stop place for foreign tourists on vacation, and this bookstore has gradually become the warmest place on the island. At the same time, the existence of the bookstore has also contributed to two relationships, Fekri and Amelia have broken up from four years ago to four years later, Ismay and Rambias have gone from staying away from each other to protecting the bookstore together, and the power of love has made people who had a bleak life no longer lonely, and "life has become beautiful and vast".
This book made me deeply appreciate the power of books. In the book, we can see a variety of lives and experience different emotions and experiences. Books are not only a way for us to acquire knowledge, but also a sustenance and bond for our hearts. Because of books, people with different backgrounds and experiences can collide with spiritual sparks, and bridges between isolated islands have been built.
At the same time, this book also made me feel the warmth and love between people. In this world, each of us is an island, but as long as we open our hearts and feel with our hearts, we will find that there is a lot of love and warmth around us.
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