book/article/poem rec

Favourite books

Waiting for the Night Song

Julie Carrick Dalton

Throughout the story, secrets are gradually revealed, piecing together decades of unanswered questions.

By the end of the story, Dalton brings you to love the most unexpected characters, because of the meticulous way the writer humanises the worst criminals. No, there is no ‘good’ and ‘evil’ one here, but only each one acting in one’s best intentions - often for another person one loves.

By the end of the story, your unconscious stereotypes towards a certain group of people shatter; you involuntarily empathise with people you may never meet or people with personalities you dislike. I think, in this way, the bonds of humanity perhaps become a little tighter.

Is telling the truth always the right thing to do? Dalton reveals the plight of illegal immigrants, who live in constant fear of the truth, in constant fear of deportation, back to a homeland that lacks the safe embrace of home.

And through the supporting images of environmental disasters, Dalton slips in humanity’s dependence on nature, magnifying our smallness in the universe, amplifying the main themes of the complexity of friendship, family and love (and embracing them all).

The Word For Woman is Wilderness

Abi Andrews

Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future

Beth Gardiner

Summer

Melissa Harrison

Tree

Matthew Battles

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

Eating Dirt

Charlotte Gill

Bring the War Home

Kathleen Belew

Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

The Hunger Games (trilogy)

Suzanne Collins

Talking To My Daughter About the Economy

Yanis Varoufakis

I Found a Bone and Other Poems

Teo Kah Leng

童话之城

王元
故事讲的是一个女孩,名叫童话。她父亲在她小时候离开了她,而母亲病逝了。所以她从小就在爷爷的照顾下,孙子俩感情深厚。在爷爷抚养她长大时,告诉她,童话之城的存在是真的。后来爷爷去世了,她便开始寻找这个世界,但是虚拟世界跟实际世界根本不能混合,她伤心了,不解爷爷为何欺骗了她。但是,她慢慢地理解爷爷的意思,理解童话之城的真实性,并找出了她的亲生父母,而爷爷到底是不是她亲生爷爷......
这个故事让我感情丰富。它是一本非常不普通,不常见的一本书,有着深厚的含义。我一边读一边感觉自己如回到了美好的童年回忆,美好的童话故事书(但是它不是一件童话故事!)!