Love stories can be different, but the process from the beginning to the end of love is essentially the same. With the accumulation of time, love relations are gradually permeated by a sense of bitterness, which seems to be everywhere. When love becomes too heavy a burden, we imagine a kind of weightless love.
Bluey is small, but has high aspiration. The world is not wonderful, so she creates her own universe, and enjoys travelling in it with little penguin Pipi. “Bluey’s Book of Genesis”, a bilingual picture book in Chinese and English, is filled with humour and wisdom. Drawn in a simple style, it reveals a long-lost touch of innocence that gives you a knowing smile and warms your heart.
A slasher, besieged by harsh reality of life, is unexpectedly given a rare opportunity to travel to the past and the future. With five coupons for time travel in his hands, he isn’t sure if it’s coincidence or fate. Before he has time to think about it, his life-changing journey is already about to set off.
A swordswoman from Hong Kong and her local Taiwanese guide; their short trip of several days in Taipei turns into a bloody fight with touches of tenderness. She says: “The underworld is wherever I am.” People are involuntarily hauled into the underworld, and are mercilessly engulfed in it. What indeed is an underworld? This is a surreal martial arts novel, set in the modern days, but it actually tells a realistic story about personal growth, life and love.
3 stories in the past tense, about the ruthless passage from youth to
adulthood; an ongoing story in the present tense, about how love dwindles
and sinks; 4 forlorn funerals that will take place soon in the future. Between
the blooming and dying of love, and between life and death, there are
moments of slight happiness.
“Love Wandering” is a road novel. It‘s about a desolate train journey of 7 days
and nights. The train carries travelers to the “Love Island”, which is a mythical
place where it’s rumored that people’s deepest wishes would come true.
During the long journey, travelers are unconsciously drawn into their
innermost dark holes, where they themselves are ignorant of their existence.
Will they have the courage to face their deepest selves?
For a woman, getting married, having children, and becoming a mother seems like a given, but is it really?
Maniniwei says, "My child. My marriage. These are stains that can't be wiped clean. This marriage is a series of slow scratches that can't be erased."
Creating poems just as cultivating the fields, found the aesthetics of human life. Huts, hedges and open fields, hitherto comprise logic and meanings. We cannot live without this fundamental activity. I am again thrilled by this aesthetics. Or should I say, the thrill has been in my heart.
This book provides an insider’s view on running an independent bookshop, “Small Small Bookshop”, reveals the challenges they met and shares the wisdoms they gain. It’s also a guidebook on the “ecology of bookshops”. For those who want to join bookshop industry, it may lead you to a shortcut.
