From the day I babbled, my mother told me the story of Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White. I am always fascinated by it, as if I were traveling in a fairy tale world. Gradually, I fell in love with listening to stories and pestered my mother to tell stories every night. In my mother's arms, I heard thousands of stories, just like the spring rain falling into the ground.
Books are our inseparable mentors and friends on weekdays, and they are the ladder of our progress. "There is a golden house in the book, there is a Yan Ruyu in the book, and there are thousands of chestnuts in the book." As long as you read it carefully, you will find the infinite treasure contained in the book.
With the growth of age, the amount of books read increases, and the artistic conception in my heart is getting higher and higher. In the sacred temple, I listened to the sweet music played by books. I enjoy it, roaming, imagining and never returning. By the pond, you can see that "Xiao He only shows sharp corners; There is a dragonfly standing at the top of the landscape; Standing on the desert with a spear, there is a tragic scene of "the wind is rustling and easy to flow"; Waiting for the arrival of the "West Wind and Old Road Thin Horse" in the sunset. You can watch all the mysterious wonders of nature given by the creator; You can feel Wen Tianxiang's patriotic feelings of "no one died in life since ancient times, leaving a heart to shine on history"; We can sigh Xiang Yu's great ambition of "pulling mountains and rivers out of the world".
Recalling the wonderful contents of that book, I am still hungry and still want to read it again. Every time I hold a good book, there are always many ideas; Visit heroes and listen to books to tell their touching stories. Nervous plot, touching story, really exciting. Reading makes my mind bloom in the spring sunshine like petals; The days with books are full, happy and wonderful, shining and cheering in the warmth of books.
Books don't make people drunk. How many times have I been alone in the study, enjoying the fun in the book? Seeing the happy scene in the book, my face was filled with happy expressions and danced; Seeing sadness, I shed tears of sympathy for the tragic experience of the protagonist; Seeing humor, I couldn't help laughing and felt wonderful; When I see something profound, I often think hard and worry about the answer. Closing a book is like returning from a battlefield battle-swimming around in the universe sweating like rain-excited, discussing with ancient and modern sages and returning-an epiphany.
I even forgot to eat and sleep at school. Listen to me slowly if you don't believe me.
I always pick up a book and read it carefully after finishing my homework every day after school. I also read a book with relish when I go to the toilet. Until my legs and feet are sore, I will reluctantly leave the world of books. Sometimes I am so absorbed in this book that I forget that my mother invited me to dinner. Finally, my mother pulled me out of the book with The East Roar of the River Lion.
Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "Reading is like breaking thousands of books, and writing is like a god." Once, when we were writing a composition, I suddenly felt that the whole person's thinking was clear and very agile. As the saying goes, "other stones can attack jade", writing composition can be said to be my hobby. I applied the knowledge I learned from books to my composition flexibly. Every time I see the wavy lines and five-pointed stars in the composition book, I feel indescribable joy in my heart.
Later, I passed the book because of my poor eyesight in reading. But I have a strong desire to read. In the dead of night, it is a good time for me to study. I hid my book and desk lamp in the quilt and began to read. When my mother came to check, I pretended to be asleep. After my mother left, I took out my book and started to work, but the paper wouldn't catch fire. While I was enjoying the wonderful fragments in the book, my mother suddenly burst in and found me reading a book. I had to say goodbye to books and sleep peacefully, but I was in Cao Ying and my heart was in the Han Dynasty. Although I went to bed, I still imagined the story in the book and the tragic scene of the protagonist in my mind, which kept me awake all night.
Reading a good book is like meeting a charcoal fire in the severe winter, which will ignite your passion with selfless self-confidence; Reading a good book is like meeting the sun in a hot summer, bringing a breeze to your impetuous mind when you are narcissistic; Reading a good book is like a lost ship meeting a beacon light, setting up an ideal sail and sailing for life.
"The book is as sentimental as ever, dating every morning, with 3,000 words in front of you and no dust in your chest." "Reading is not in the middle of the night, and I am afraid that I will be violent and cold."
"The most important thing is that the book is far-reaching, poetic and self-reliant." At this moment, I recall this fascinating book, and my ideal lamp is brighter and my goal of progress is more firm. Because I know that the books I bring with me will definitely bring me more knowledge and wisdom and give me greater strength and courage. There is a road to shushan. I will bravely climb the mountain of Shu, take root in my hometown and my motherland, and write more brilliant poems for our Houjie and our motherland!
Shu Xiang ban wo hang
Since I can read, books have become my closest friends. Whenever I wander in the sea of books, I am like a free fish, happily foraging in the sea of books. Books have also inserted flying wings for me, and made my heart bloom with beautiful flowers.
I remember when I first learned to read, I especially liked to read Andersen's fairy tales and Grimm's fairy tales. The kind mermaid, the beautiful Snow White and the seven dwarfs, the poor little match girl and the lovely Cinderella in the book enriched my childhood, made my world colorful and made me understand the evil and the good in life.
As I grow up, I like reading more books, such as the great discovery of dinosaur mystery, the greatest invention discovery in the world 100, the adventure in Little Tiger, the story of a great man and so on. I have learned knowledge from these books that I have never had in my life, and I have also met many great men who have made outstanding contributions to mankind. For example, watching "The Great Discovery of Dinosaur Mystery" let me know all kinds of dinosaurs and the age when they lived. Reading "The Story of a Great Man" taught me to be ambitious from an early age and not to be easily defeated by difficulties. Success belongs to the persevering. Little Tiger, a Reading Adventure, taught me to be cautious in everything and to explore repeatedly to get the answer and succeed.
Reading is like having a deep dialogue with a writer, just like having a dialogue with a great man. Accept the influence of great men in ancient and modern times, Chinese and foreign countries, and let you become elegant and talk extraordinary. Reading is the baptism of the soul, which enriches your soul and washes away the garbage of thinking, thus becoming a person with rich feelings and upright behavior.
Come on, my friend, let this book accompany you and me forever. ...
Shu Xiang ban wo hang
The famous educator Suhomlinski once said: "The way to make students smarter is not to make up lessons or increase homework, but to read, read and read again." This shows the importance and unique function of reading. Reading teaching is a vital part in Chinese teaching. Reading teaching includes two parts, one is reading in class, and the other is reading outside class. Extracurricular reading plays a very important role in developing children's imagination, cultivating aesthetic taste, improving children's ability to distinguish right from wrong, good and evil, enriching the spiritual world and promoting the formation of correct moral concepts. It is the most important content in extracurricular Chinese teaching activities, the continuation and expansion of in-class reading, and an important part of reading ability training. At present, in-class reading has always been valued by teachers and students, while extracurricular reading has been neglected, which is worrying.
To this end, I have been planning a reading project to let children adapt to and face the needs and challenges of the future society with profound knowledge, active thinking and healthy body and mind.
In rural areas, it is more difficult to make such activities colorful. Not to mention that there are all kinds of extracurricular reading materials now, it is difficult to buy a good book. Even if it is not good, it is difficult to have books. On the one hand, rural families seldom read extracurricular books because of their own conditions, so parents can't set a good example for their children and create a good reading atmosphere. In their view, it is enough for children to consciously complete the homework assigned by the teacher. Don't tell them, but urge them to read after class. Some people even hold an opposing attitude and think it will affect their children's normal study. When they hear that they want to buy extra-curricular books, most parents choose to buy compositions, which directly reduces their interest in extra-curricular books by half. Secondly, the school conditions are limited and it is impossible to provide children with a good extracurricular reading environment. No child in the library reading room has heard of it. Even if there is, most of them exist in name only. What's more, under the control of some conditions, it is difficult for teachers themselves to break the traditional educational thinking around textbooks and rarely encourage students to read some useful extracurricular books. I did the same myself. I tried several times and failed in the end. It seems that it is not enough to have such an idea, but also to find ways to make the activity full of vitality and perseverance.
This semester, I took over a first-year class. First grade, pinyin has just begun. With reading, I can kill two birds with one stone. Last Friday, I assigned a special assignment: let parents accompany their children to the bookstore to buy an extracurricular reading. Because of the differences in age and knowledge level, students of different ages have different interests in extracurricular reading. Junior students mainly use cartoons or cartoons, with pictures and texts, bright colors and vivid composition; Middle school students can read illustrated fables or fairy tales. When you are in your senior year, you can read stories of heroes and model figures, historical stories and popular science books. So I ask parents to choose pinyin reading materials, mainly fairy tales, story books and poems that children like, with exquisite illustrations to attract children better. As a result, seven of the 32 children didn't bring it, 1 forgot to bring it, and the other six said that their father didn't buy it or didn't have time to buy it. I don't know how to work with such parents. Parents can't even finish their "homework" seriously, how can they ask their children? The difficulty of carrying out this activity can be imagined. Of course, there are also some active parents, such as Dongdong's father, who came to the school today to inquire about the situation and insisted that I write down the title of the book and buy it in Qiao Feng this afternoon. From the conversation, I feel that this authentic farmer doesn't even know what a story book is. Another example is Wang Yiting's father, who sent a message saying that they would support him as long as necessary; Parents who have prepared more than one book for their children ... here, I want to say to these parents who are actively preparing for their children: thank you for your cooperation!
Next, I explained the numbering and registration of books, the training of administrators and the whole borrowing process. As soon as I came into contact with reading, I carefully protected my child's immaturity and interest, without asking too much, and only made a few simple plans:
1. Read extracurricular books for more than half an hour every day at school, and hold a recitation contest once a week.
2. Teachers and students read * * *. I also want to follow them to taste books, not only reading adult works to increase my cultural heritage and literary accomplishment, but also reading children's works to enter children's hearts.
3, parent-child reading. "If there is no high educational literacy of the whole society, the first is the family, then no matter how hard the teacher works, he will not receive satisfactory results." Therefore, I expect parents to participate in our reading and spend a few minutes reading with their children every day.
After borrowing books in an orderly way, the children turned over, spelled and read with relish. Interest is the best teacher, and I am really happy to see them fondle admiringly. In order to better stimulate their interest, I made a beautiful reading card for each child and posted it on the wall, and recorded it in time after reading the new content. Looking at their reading scores, children's interest is higher.
"Books are the nourishment of the whole world. Without books in life, there seems to be no sunshine; Wisdom without books is like a bird without wings. " This sentence by Shakespeare, the master of drama, points out the direction for our extracurricular reading and brings us endless enlightenment. May reading lead children into another time and space, feel another situation, and let them spread their wings of imagination and fly in the sky of knowledge.
Shu Xiang ban wo hang
I don't know when the shadow of the book floated into my world. When I was a kid? When the top is small and the top is small? I vaguely remember that at that time, the afterglow of the sunset had not faded. My grandmother hugged me in the shadow of the sunset and read me a poem. She was holding a small book with yellow pages. I still remember the tone of the poem: driving to the ancient garden with the shadow of dusk in my heart. Sunset, infinitely beautiful, only near dusk.
Time flows in the river of life. The shadow of the book will continue to linger in my mottled memory. Close your eyes, there will always be a few colorful corners floating out of the corner of your memory. I don't remember if they were torn from that book. When I was young, my mind was full of fairy tales. The vivid image in the book has become my best playmate. Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Ugly Duckling and the little match girl are all my good friends. At that time, the greatest pleasure was to tell children the stories in these books and be a story king.
A wisp of book fragrance, just like this, floats in my life.
Reading seems to be my favorite thing to do. I am a restless person, and my extroverted personality makes me feel a little lonely, but if I am given a book, I will sit quietly for a day, because for me, the world in the book is my most lively and noisy.
I like the rhythm of poetry, the classical Chinese feelings of the ancients, the profundity of Liu Yong and the boldness of Su Shi. Han Ruchao, Su Ruhai, Liu Ruquan, Ou Rulan. Those ancient poems are all exquisite. I am full of thoughts, enjoying the author's joy and mourning the author's sadness. Their momentum and profound phonology, even for people thousands of years later, are quite similar to the feelings, emotions, emotions and profundity in China culture.
I also like famous books. Famous books are famous books because they show the soul of world thought through stories. I like to laugh about the success or failure of the Three Kingdoms, and I like the Red Chamber with profound connotations. Qian Zhongshu's insight and ridicule of human nature in Fortress Besieged: Tolstoy shows the difficult course of spiritual exploration in Resurrection. Feel Gorky's childhood growth and admire Jonathan and Swift's wonderful satire. They keep injecting new life into me. I started thinking: thinking about truth, thinking about life. One book after another has brought me into a sacred place I have never set foot in: the golden hall of human thought and civilization.
A wisp of book fragrance continues and spreads in my life like this. Stepping on the ladder of books, I have gone through joy and wind and rain. I felt the responsibility of growing up, learned to be strong, and learned how to deal with people. I have too many ideas and words about books. Books are the most important part of my growing up.
So, I tried to pick up a pen, learn to release my emotions, either happy or sad, or happy or sad, and try to tell everyone the essence extracted from each book in my own way. When the soul of thought jumps out of the pen tip and beautiful words rush on white paper, I always think of a passage in a book, and I always vaguely see some feelings and see my growing footprints in the book. I imitate the sharpness of Lu Xun; Qiong Yao's softness. Try to shape your role in the article and see through your life.
I thank books, I love books, and I love that quiet book.
Later, I came into contact with different kinds of literature and books. The books of rascal Cai, Jing M.Guo and Han Han are filled with a little melancholy shadow behind youth. I usually spend most of my time in the bookstore, reading one by one, thinking over and over again, and shouting loudly in the sky of books over and over again. It is too high for me to reach, but I have long been deeply addicted to this flawless blue, so a wisp of book is swaying. The purpose of reading is no longer to satisfy curiosity or feel anything. Through books, I seem to see the essence of society and human nature at a deeper level. Therefore, I try my best to understand my own needs in the book. Every time I read a book, I write with a pen at night. I often feel like an armored soldier wearing a helmet. I still have some doubts in my fragile bones about using foreign objects to thicken my chest and improve my chances of winning. I didn't get the victory shirt on my own. Therefore, I would rather wear a thin white cloth and hold a sword to defeat my enemy, even if I lose my life. This is the sense of reality I want. So read, so write, so thick and thin. I sometimes even feel that I am the charming fragrance and the soul of the book. The only way to keep yourself strong is to read and nourish your spirit. Write one article after another. Create a world for yourself, even if blood will dye my white cloth at any time, it is also the taste of pride.
When all is silent, I still sit by the lamp and stare at the pages that have not been turned for a long time.
A wisp of book is just floating in my soul dream, and it is getting stronger and stronger. Books are the ladder of human progress and the soul of human thought.
Shu Xiang ban wo hang
Knowledge is the eternal taste of life.
Learning is the faint ink taste of books, the flash of the author's inner soul and the inner taste of books.
In the book, there is the magnificence of "the dark snow-capped mountains with long clouds in Qinghai", and there is "How can I make it clear through these clouds?" There is the melancholy of "leaving the clouds to the west" and the magnanimity of "the white clouds are endless from there". A single word "cloud" is very different in different books, which makes people sigh: how colorful the world in the book is!
Book fragrance, drifting from distant history. Books have been an indispensable part of people's lives since ancient times. The ancients loved and respected books. The ancients often introduced literati with "extensive reading", which shows that books have a supreme position in the hearts of the ancients. Of course, the ancients also loved reading, so they appreciated Lu You's "appreciating strange articles, solving doubts and doubts", Du Fu's "one article will last forever, knowing gains and losses" and Su Shi's ambition of "reading all the books in the world".
Accompanied by their poems, the faint book fragrance floats through the long years; Accompanied by their feelings, the books flowed all over China; Accompanied by their feelings, the spring breeze-like book fragrance fell into my heart.
Gradually, my study is also haunted by a faint book fragrance. Gradually, I also fell in love with books. Gorky once said that "books are the ladder of human progress." Indeed, books have taught me a lot. I learned love and beauty from books. Whether it is the ups and downs in the book, or the ups and downs in the book; Whether it is the joys and sorrows in the book or the clouds in the book, everything is so intoxicating, so intoxicated, so let it rise and fall.
I still remember that the book I read the most was A Dream of Red Mansions. When I was a child, I saw a cartoon version in which various characters attracted my attention, and sometimes I even copied it myself. For the content, I only know that the protagonist is very pitiful. I grew up little by little, watched the juvenile edition, and gradually learned the sad love story of Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu, and also got to know a group of versatile women. After I graduated from primary school, I saw the original Dream of Red Mansions for the first time, only to find a little taste of the Red Mansion: behind the Grand View Garden, there are many little-known murky, flowery and gentle countryside ... This summer, I opened this beautifully bound Dream of Red Mansions again, which is still a bustling Guo Rong mansion, familiar people and Dai Yu's tearful songs. The years have passed quietly, and the books have not changed, but the people who can read have quietly changed.
A red building accompanied my childhood and will accompany me to another stage. Inadvertently, I found that the book in the bookcase was "transformed", no longer a fairy tale or a composition, but a plain and philosophical book, which led me and Yu to embark on a cultural journey together and witnessed the quiet changes of history; It accompanied me and Bing Xin to stare at "Stars in Spring Water" to feel naive childlike innocence; It made Xu Zhimo and I review Farewell to Cambridge and listened to his inner sadness. ...
"A cup of tea tells the story of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and a volume of classics tells the story of the Spring and Autumn Period." Scholarship led me to witness the vicissitudes of life, accompanied me to experience the changes of the situation, taught me to feel life, guided me to listen to my heart, and made me discover:
Reading is a pleasure. Reading from spring flowers to autumn moon, from the night of the first snow to the morning, in the silent alternation of spring and autumn, in the silent operation of the years, the mind is moved by books, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes sighing, sometimes understanding, full of twists and turns, ups and downs, all of which are the beauty of life.
Reading is a change. As the saying goes, the book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu. Indeed, reading can lead people to the other side of wisdom. People who don't study are confused all their lives, always wandering in the clouds and fog, and can only regret their mediocrity in their later years; Readers, books are the eternal light in his heart, leading him to be always awake, wise step by step, and finally walk out of a perfect life!
Reading is a need. People can eat without sleeping for a day, but they must not study for a day! In his later years, Ouyang Xiu claimed to be a "six-year-old layman", and one of the "one" is to have a "volume of Confucian classics", which shows the great writer's demand for books. As Shi said, "My mind is full of poems and books". Books can not only entertain people, but also spread the rain and dew of knowledge to readers' hearts and cultivate people's sentiments.
In fact, each book has its own unique fragrance. Delicate is not a color, but it burns at first sight, but it is like plum blossom, with a faint fragrance; Learning is not a storm, it comes naturally and goes quickly, but the sky is high and the clouds are light and the background is evergreen. Let's pick up the book in our hands, sip tea, feel the long years and taste the lightness of the book!
Shu Xiang ban wo hang
My ideal is to be admitted to Tsinghua University and become a computer expert of Microsoft in the future. To realize this ideal, we need rich knowledge and superb skills to set off ourselves, among which useful books are more important. There is a golden room in the book. I wandered in the sea of books. Typical and distinctive characters fascinated me and made many jokes.
At that time, I was six years old, and I saw Journey to the West for the first time. My mother bought me an illustrated version of Journey to the West. When I opened the Journey to the West and saw the birth of the Monkey King for the first time, the bright pictures lined with beautiful words immediately attracted me. the Monkey King's furry face and Lei Gong's mouth went deep into my heart. When I watched the scene of the Monkey King's birth, I looked at the picture on the left, as if I was there. I live on the mountain peak where the Monkey King was born, wrapped in purple smoke, and I dance and play with the Monkey King. The more I read, the more interesting I feel. My mother asked me to come out for dessert. I followed the Monkey King's example, called the Monkey King out, crept out, picked up the bread and wolfed it down. After eating, I asked Monkey to come back and go back to the study. Mom and dad were still standing there for more than ten seconds, smiling from ear to ear.
More interestingly, I was only seven years old when I read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. When I read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms for the second time, the wise image of Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu's upright character have been engraved in my heart. I couldn't help but get excited when I saw Zhuge Liang retiring Sima Yi on the 95th. I thought of Zhuge Liang burning incense and playing the piano. In the face of Sima Yi's army, I am not afraid at all, and I am completely empty. Sima Yi was frightened by Zhuge Liang's imposing manner, did not listen to Si Mazhao's advice and returned to the camp. Seeing this, it's time to eat, and my stomach is growling with hunger. I shouted to my mother, "Mom, if you don't cook, my stomach will turn into Zhuge Liang. I want to make an empty plan!" " "Mom also replied," that's good. My baby's belly is Zhuge Liang. How clever! ""When this was said, we both laughed heartily.
Classics are immortal, whether it is Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Mysterious Island or Anna karenin. These Chinese and foreign masterpieces have given me happiness and knowledge, just like opening one window after another for my soul, letting me see the colorful world outside and understand the truth contained in each book. The brushwork of literature is to walk up a flight of stairs. Let's sail forward in the sea of books together! Scholarly companion, life dream!
I have been influenced by my parents' culture since I was a child, which is why I can study so consciously today.
When I was in the first grade, my father simply decorated a small bedroom and made it our study. The bookshelf is full of all kinds of books, and my school supplies and small toys are placed on a desk. Every day after school, as soon as I enter the house, I carry my schoolbag into the study and do my homework. I will swim freely in the ocean of books and absorb the nutrition from the ocean. How happy it is! "The book has its own Yan Ruyu, and the book has its own golden house". This sentence is really good. Only by reading can we know that the contents in the book are so precious. After dinner in the evening, my parents clean up the kitchen, and we will enjoy the fun in the book. Father said, "There is so much knowledge in books. Only by reading more books can we know the mystery in the book and understand the content of the article and apply it to practice. " The contents of the book are really endless. What is the effect of cooking? "My mother told me," Cooking a book is not about putting the book in a pot, but about the content of repeated reading. How to understand the book thoroughly. I suddenly realized, oh, that's what I meant! "Dad asked me if I had read the ancient poems of the ancient poet Du Fu. Du Fu, a great poet, studied hard when he was a child and loved reading extracurricular books, so he was able to write such excellent poems. After listening to many famous stories told by his parents, I deeply realized that reading more useful extracurricular knowledge can't be learned in textbooks, and I also deeply realized the wonderful literary talent in the book and tasted the good sentences and paragraphs in the book. Reading can enrich my knowledge, make full use of my mind and enrich my extracurricular time. More perfect. I will study harder, make use of the good atmosphere of my family to enrich myself, enjoy the fun in the book and make myself more perfect!
Lao She jumped into Taiping Lake and left his life with words full of Beijing flavor. When Nietzsche arrogantly shouted "I have written enough about this world, now let the world write about me", his poetic and philosophical words have been integrated into his soul.
These dusty classics span the spring flowers and the autumn moon, telling the writer's unforgettable past. The lost years can't corrode its essence, wash away its beauty and take away its shocking enlightenment. It is like dew after a long drought, and it is like an angel in the wind and rain, washing your soul and conveying the thoughts of giants.
The essence of human civilization embodies the writer's painstaking efforts and sweat, contains the myriad weather of the vast universe, covers colorful beauty and details, and carries profound national spirit.
Reading is a pleasure. Wandering in the sea of books, let Gorky's Haiyan teach you courage, Melville's Moby Dick teach you reason, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes teach you wit and observation, and St. de Huberley's Little Prince teach you innocence and kindness. Sow our emotions on this fertile soil and devote ourselves to this colorful world, and the source of wisdom will inevitably erupt in our hearts, washing away lead and dust.
Humble head, poor, reading Confucius and Mencius, you can cultivate your self-cultivation, "sing elegant songs in the morning and Fu Bixing in the evening." Reading the Book of Songs can enlighten customs and cultivate sentiment. Reading Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly, Lao Zhuang makes us wise and knowledgeable. Reading Li Sao and Historical Records, we are deeply moved by the grief and indignation of poets and heroes who have nowhere to serve their country and the lofty sentiments of Jin Ge.
Tonight, the night is as cool as water. It was the ancients who brought wine to the wind and were full of lofty sentiments. Moonlight balcony full of wine, wonderful poetry. This is the true feeling of literati. We are deeply moved by the joy of "the spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease", the resentment of "rushing to the crown with anger, leaning against the railing", the sadness of "who can pick it today?" and the bitterness of "who can understand the taste when the author of Dou Yun is stupid?" Centuries have passed, poets have been sleeping for a long time, and the past has vanished, but the poems they left behind are more touching and refreshing like Chen Xiang's wine. They left inexhaustible literary treasures for future generations.
Another morning sun shone in the room, and the birds outside the window broke the silence of the city. Pick up the book, feel quiet, fresh and lofty, and the gloomy sky becomes gorgeous.