【Bookcase at the end of the month】February: A month with few desires and two lines of experience

Recently, I have developed the habit of reading an e-book and a paper book at the same time. I reserve an hour before going to bed for e-books. When lying in bed, my hands are less sore, and my posture is free. Reading before bed like this seems to affect how I feel about a book and cultivate special feelings. For example, I watched The Neighbors this month. If I read it in normal time, I would probably be very impatient, but now I have a close feeling of listening to my friends nagging about the troubles of life before going to bed. When you read, how you read, and what state you read, you will read different books. This is my February reading experiment.

I'm a bit tired this month. I'm too lazy to be active in real life and in the virtual world, and I choose very easy books to read. February, four books, 1,427 pages, all fiction.

what books did you read in february

1. The Silent Patient | Alex Michaelide

"The Silent Patient"

• Mystery, Psychological Thriller, Mystery

The famous painter Alicia, who seems to be happily married, refuses to speak after killing her husband, which has become an unsolved case. This book did not guess the end, but there is no sense of surprise when the mystery is revealed. My favorite part is to borrow the Greek myth of Alcestis to construct the suspense point of the entire novel.

2. The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared | Jonas Jonasson

"The Centenarian Going Home"

Original title: Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann

• Humor, and a completely fictitious historical background

On his 100th birthday, Allan escaped from a nursing home and inadvertently provokes gang members into disappearances and murders. This is the Nordic-themed reading of this month. Although it is a different theme and the author's style is completely different, I always think of A Man Called Ove when I read it, and I vaguely see Swedish humor from these two books (? )

3. The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story | Monique Roffey

• love, literature, magic realism

I don't really like the color scheme of this cover, but I love the elements of this book: the Caribbean Sea, the mermaid, the ancient legends... The special thing is that the diary of a fisherman and the song of a mermaid are interspersed in the narrative. The words of the mermaid are full of rhythm, sad and tactful but also legendary and magnificent. The background of this story is set in modern times, which makes it even more strange.

4. The Neighbours | Nicola Gill

• modern romance

Thirty-four-year-old Ginny caught her boyfriend messing with her boss, lost her love and her job, and met her neighbor, an actress who was bullied by public opinion, and gained a strange friendship. The anxiety and struggle of the heroine at the beginning should resonate with many people, but to be honest, this book has no ups and downs, and the plot has been pulled to 400 pages. At the end, I just think about you enough.

What books did you buy in February What books do you want to buy?

I didn’t buy a book this month, and I didn’t even find an excuse to buy books for myself during the Lunar New Year, which means that this month has almost no other expenses except rent and vegetables, so it is a month of pure heart and few desires. This year, I set up a monthly translation book of Nordic writers, but found that none of the books in the list are works by Sami writers. Originally, there are not many English translation books of Sammy, and it is more difficult to find e-books. A little troubled.

Although I didn't buy any books, there were a few more items in the to-be-buy list in the shopping cart. The introduction of each book is just a rough scan, and the information may not necessarily be wrong, but they are all books I really want to read:

• Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

 I remember that I liked Kazuo Ishiguro's books very much, and when I saw his new book came out, I wanted to buy it without reading the book summary. This kind of naked reading is sometimes confusing (like reading 4 3 2 1 at the beginning), and sometimes super surprising (like Love and Other Thought Experiments).

• How We Are Translated - Jessica Gaitán Johannesson

 After reading the outline of a book that was not quite sure what it was talking about, I only added it to the shopping cart after reading the character introduction. The cover is beautiful.

• Empty Houses - Brenda Navarro

 A child is missing. At this time, his mother found another voice in her heart, and seemed to remember that she didn't want children so much in the first place. On the other side of the city is a woman yearning for a child who goes to great lengths to keep her stolen child safe. Super want to see.

• We'll Call You - Jacob Sundberg

 A collection of nine short stories centered around job interviews, rarely seen in books on this subject, and should be interesting. "We'll get back to you" is often heard during interviews and usually means "Thanks for contacting you again".

• Mother for Dinner - Shalom Auslander

 The cannibal mother's last wish was for her sons to eat herself, but it was difficult to implement because one son only ate kosher food, one died, and the other was vegetarian. The son, Lao Qi, felt the need to pass on their culture, but at the same time felt guilty. It should be a novel with a dark humor style.