8.29.2009

2009 books

The scalpel and the soul
One of the best reads of the year, takes science to a new dimension. Packed with actions yet loving and tender, author is indeed a very good storyteller. very powerful. 

了凡四训

明日灭亡
The last one of the trilogy. Finally got a hold of a copy. It took me 3 years, on and off, to finish the series. I was transformed by the ideas and culture manifested in this book.  
sex and psychic energy 
Read it but didn't really understand...

the alchemist
This book was on the New York Time and Barnes & Nobel's best seller list for over 3 years. Finally read it. I wish I can be a shepherd in Andalusia.  
  
沈家桢居士演讲集
高人,好书。原来人还能活出这种境界。

green building A to Z
Environmental architecture tool book

双城
无比罗嗦的一本书,勉强看完。

the five people you meet in heaven
A novel about the journey of a man who died accidently. Interesting, easy read, touching...

broken open
罗嗦,故事情节再多点更好。说教成分很多。

佐贺的超级阿嬷
朴素的真理和不凡的智慧在温馨的故事和笑声中显现!居家过日子,最好的最坏的都有准备。给人激励和斗志。推荐!

a whole new mind
还挺有意思的一本书,  introduces a lot of new ideas. 但是论据不够严谨。

云空行
语言精炼,情节率性而为,一气呵成,看了觉得很爽。同时,又对野史和古代风貌有了更切身的体验,棒!古今风云,时空变幻,空旷的山林,世间的缘起缘灭,看一集老几十岁!看完全集以后,已经忘不了云空。有时坐地铁的时候会突然想到这个虚构的人物。

少有人走的路
很幽深的一本书,适合一个人的时候安静地看, 安静地想。明白很多,也还有很多不明白,还有明白但做不到的。

庄子喃哗
还没看完,一看就范困

The essential Rumi
2am brought me to tears. 
8am made me smile. 

The five love languages
Very practical relationship advices, it generates a deeper understanding of human nature and gives you many great ideas on how to make your other half happy!
我用一生去寻找
潘石屹的博客书。很喜欢里面童年和少年时的故事,朴实震撼反映了时代的变迁。其他的还行。
The Little Prince
makes you smile and feel at ease instantly. It's comforting to know that there existed a person appreciating the same things as you, and he put it in words and won the heart of millions.  deep down there is a silver cord connects all of us, after all. written in new york. original art work restored by wife consuelo.   

The tale of the rose
written by the Little Prince's wife. I think she's a real artist and a bewitching storyteller.  the story draws me in at page 1. it is quite romantic but not pretty. i liked seeing the human side of people. it is fascinating to know that a man who writes so beautifully and understands all the important things life...is still not perfect in reality. this helps me set a reasonable expectation for the male species.  

大口小吃
台湾小吃书,有很多好看的图片,边看边流哈喇子,还有地址,电话和交通建议捏!

Gnomes

Everything about gnomes. with beautiful & charming illustrations! :D

兄弟
真费解这书出了这么久我怎么现在才看到。无比痛快的一本书,一晚上看完。先是哈哈地笑,没过多久我又嗷嗷地哭,从来没因为一本书哭得那么痛快,也没看过一本书能让我又哭又笑像个傻子。真是长了见识。没有一丝矫揉造作,有事儿说事儿,没事儿滚蛋,留下爱恨恩仇任人评说。

8.10.2009


Gift


A day so happy.
Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over the honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw blue sea and sails.

Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004)


Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost/New Hampshire, 1923