The city selected scholarly families and secretly looked at the hardware conditions. I actually meet the requirements. In recent years, I have bought very few books, all because I bought too many books before. According to the latest statistics, there are 3,000 volumes in the home. It sounds like a lot, but it's about a mixed bag, spanning my old collection from junior high school to college.
There is about a peak of buying books, that is, in college, on weekends, when used book stalls are placed on campus, you can buy a very good book to read for a few dollars, which is really huge**.
Some people say that books can't be read unless they are borrowed, but for me they have been invalid for a long time. I love to read, but I didn't use the library well during my time at school. It's just that I wandered around the messy used book stalls again and again, relying on fate, eyesight, and energy, to find friends in the book one by one.
The old bookstall is my ** of a large number of books, bringing books home from Jinan, quite a foolish man's stupidity to move mountains, every time I go home, I don't have to bring anything, the suitcase is full of books, and the backpack is also. One time the train manager wanted to put his luggage away, and before I could remind him, he was so confident that he almost flashed to his waist.
When my dad saw the books I piled up, he admired them and commented that people always have to have a peak of buying books, and then they will subtract again. I grew up in my father's huge stack of books, so I naturally knew what he meant.
In 2016, I spent several weeks counting the bookcases and bookcases in the study, only to find that I had probably reached the point where it was difficult to collect books.
At that time, he was quite sympathetic to the minimalist opinion, that the fewer things that people possess, the better. So I had to self-discipline myself in terms of money, and set myself the goal of not buying books this month, and only 1,000 yuan a year. After three years, the implementation has been quite good. Except for the occasional book purchase, I generally only read and store books, and no longer buy books.
Reading a book has a few tangles and a few transitions. It's worth writing about. One of the entanglements is the debate in idle books. I always feel that reading should first satisfy these tasks before I can read some leisure, but reading is endless, so I often fight between the two. The second entanglement is in the debate of the classics. The classics are the best in the book, and everyone knows it. But most of the classic comments are on others and not on themselves. Looking at the collection selected by the people, it is even more clever. But it is extremely difficult to read and be creative. The difficulty lies in the fact that there are so many books and so little energy. The third entanglement is the debate of seeking perfection. When I was young, I bought a large number of anthologies, and later I went to the used book stalls and bought many fragments. For a while, I was keen on collecting the whole book, and I always felt that it was not biased to read it all, and it was quite atmospheric. But in fact, if you buy the whole book, or put together the whole work, the style in the cupboard looks good, and the opportunity to read it is even less.
There are several changes, one of which is that reading is getting slower and slower. In the past, I used to read books to ask for a neat layout, but later I liked to criticize and draw on them, because reading notes often did not take advantage of the correspondence, but it was not as neat as the book. Some books have already been read for the first or second time, but they still want to read them again. The second shift is that there are fewer and fewer books to read. This less is less and less variety, and basically only look at the precipitated classics. Even if you put a bestseller in front of you, you can't sink your mind to read it, and if you feel that the quality is insufficient, you will be impetuous. The three shifts are that reading is getting harder and harder. After a list of cleaned books, I looked at it in a statistical way, and the reading has long been biased towards literature, history and philosophy. So I deliberately found a lot of books on economics and natural sciences to read, but I didn't dare not read to be lonely and unheard, and I really didn't dare to read to narrow my vision. I, who am extremely poor in mathematics and logic, really enjoy myself and enjoy it.
After college, I talked less and less about books with my friends. A few book clubs were added, but there was less time to talk about books, and the organizers loved to talk about business, so the book friends were interested. In my spare time, I still like to visit bookstores and libraries, because these two places are definitely not based on your interests, and you can often find treasures that you have not read.
There are often stupid things to do in book collections, and I often buy a good version, and I am reluctant to read it, so I will put it on the shelf, and then buy other editions to read for myself, and over time, I seem to be a stupid man. The latest stupidity is to buy the first edition of Balzac's complete works, read a few carefully, and sit upright, never going back to bed to the toilet and the heroic posture of the car. But after reading the book, my eyes only touched the spine of the book, and I ironed it like ice cream in summer and hot pot in winter, and I had to go down.
The dream of buying a big house and putting books in it has always been there, and with the release of the second child, it seems to be even more distant from me. I miss the days when I slept on my college bed with stacks of books on my side, waking up and grabbing a copy in every corner, and immersing myself for a while. On the opposite bed, there are also one or a few roommates, a few small talks, and they are in love. I long for a winter when the mountains are covered with heavy snow, and I can study in winter.