A. reminder B. partner C non-fiction D. setting E. survival F. acknowledges tastes H. symbolic I. value J. meaning K. grasps |
What makes the perfect winter read?
As the weather turns and the sky darkens, autumn and winter can often feel like the perfect time for curling up with a good book.
But I wonder if it's just me who finds that my reading seem to change along with the seasons? The books I might choose to read in some sunny garden are very different from the ones I want when the wind is blowing outside and a few precious hours of water y daylight are the best we can hope for.
I always writing that evokes(唤起) time and place, and in the midst of the coldest, darkest part of the year, I want more than ever for a book to be"a ball of light"in my hands, as Ezra Pound famously once put it a(n) of life and love
I also need a ce rtain degree of comfortness in a winter read --something that will keep me warm when the weather won't!Give me gothic (哥特式的) building in the snow, with heroines whose passions burn brightly Or let me escape completely, into some fantasy but I'd still like my forests icy and pine smelling Give me stories of and re birth Remind me that this time of year has, too.
Katherine May's beautiful , poetic deep thought on the season, Wintering, does precisely this. Seemingly, it's , combining aspects of her life with more universal thoughts on how we might winter well But there's a lyrical(抒情的), quality to the writing that confuses plain concepts like"genre" She that in winter we need different tools to get us through the season and it also offers one such tool, since Wintering itself is the perfect guide book and to see you through until spring.
That's why books that help me see the beauty of the season will always be high on my list of winter reads.
