The way to understand my soul 

      李叔同说佛
        by 丰子凯

      爱的饥渴
        by 三岛由纪夫

        潮骚
        by 三岛由纪夫

        百分百女孩
        by 村上春树

      Inventing Money : The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It 
      by Nicholas Dunbar

      人面桃花
      by 格非

--The media says that this is the best novel they have seen in years. I don't agree. It's good, but not spetacular. I have read better, <<尘埃落定>> and <<受活>> are better.

      Boyhood
       by J.M. Coetzee

--It's a memoir by Coetzee of his boyhood. I first got interested in Coetzee because of his book Disgrace.  Reading Boyhood, I feel that sensitive and lonely boy. I share his fear of being different from others. I see the huge burden he's carrying. From time to time, I start to recollect memories of my own childhood. I reminisce the events happened, the self-awareness of a child. I awe myself to discover how much burden a child could carry. The burden of thinking like an adult, the burden of hiding everything under the surface. The burden of carrying the burden all alone, the burden of not able to tell anyone else. I'm surprised that Coetzee still remembers subtle feelings of a being a boy with such precision in his fifties or sixties. I wonder whether I will still remember what I was like in my childhood. If I don't, who else will? 

十年一梦说电影 (My dream of film-making)
by Ang Lee

--Ang Lee is one of my favorite directors. This is his autobiography about his ten years with film making. He's both a realist and a perfectionist. For a film, you have to have the most important several scenes shot in perfection. You have to get them right. Other scenes are simply fillers. I watch film differently after realizing this and find that it's ultimately true. Only those several scenes repeat in my mind over and over again, sometime even months or years later. Is life the same? Are all most of the things in life simply fillers? Do I know what are the scenes I have to get right?  

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