A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Human beings are the only life-based creatures. We have a calendar, we have a watch, we create a complete system and let us feel that we all know. The reason is that we are concerned about uncertainty. We do not want to feel stronger than us as we believe we are the top of the lifestyle chain. When we do not understand things, we feel helpless because we can not stop it. Whether your frustration will be a popular quiz next week, life will continue even after death. I do not like uncertainty about who knows what.

The book I like the most in this year is Ruth Ozeki's "Time Story". The story switched back and forth among Nao's diaries, Nao was determined to record the story of her grandmother Jiko's life, a suicide girl, Nao's diary was looted by Japan in 2011 I found out. Coast by tsunami. After reading the diary of several pages, Ruth was fascinated by it and decided to understand the life of Nao. - This book tells even people who do not know about death how people 's death will affect others. Toray, the hero, used to be a bully of Christopher Creed, it was not good for that. When the creed is gone, all Torres can think of finding him. This affects his mental state, he is obsessed with trying to pay attention to him. Tori for 3rd grade high school in Stilliton. He is playing baseball with football together with his best friend Alex of the blues band.

In the Akihabara area of ​​Tokyo, also known as Akiba Power City, Ruthoseki's "Time Story" will be held drinking coffee along with the 16-year-old Naoko (Nao). A series of bright electric stores and an avid game store. Nao wrote a diary to reuse purple ink at Proust's "Looking for Lost Time". She plans to write a story about her life as a great-grandmother: "A nun, a novelist and a new woman from the Taisho era." He told him that Nao is planning suicide . In the next chapter, the diary was found in Hello Kitty lunch boxes that landed on the Canadian Pacific coast of Japanese American writer Ruth. This story is spoken in these two alternate voices. Nao of Tokyo, Ruth of Canada

In the majority of "the story of time", Ruth provides explanatory information about Japanese culture and the geography of British Columbia, and is a career that can tell the reader whether the incident described in the Nao diary is correct. Occur. Of course, sometimes Ruth will talk about the background, but this is not that funny. With a pleasant exception, wise Ruth was used as Nao's imaginative temperament foil. "There is no difference between what you imagine and what actually happens to you, for a young man who is very strong in your mind." Nao says that at some point in her novel she will become a ghost through pure will I will make up my mind She is unsuitable for "living" condition. When a novel alternates between Ruth and Nao, the next chapter shows that Ruth encounters the harsh nature of reality.