12/27/2023 0 Comments Ordinary world reviewIt was at this time that he started to become well-known across China. In 1982, Lu Yao published his novella "Life", which was made into a film in 1984. After graduation, he became an editor of Yanhe magazine. He began writing novels when he was a college student, and graduated from Chinese Department of Yan'an University in 1973. He had six siblings and grew up in a very poor family. He was born on 3 December 1949 in Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province, and died on 17 November 1992. After graduation, he became an editor of Yanhe Lu Yao (Chinese: 路遥), born Wang Weiguo (Chinese: 王卫国), was a Chinese writer. Lu Yao (Chinese: 路遥), born Wang Weiguo (Chinese: 王卫国), was a Chinese writer. The world that Lu Yao creates is ordinary but full of meaning and wonder, and by reading his words, I find that I am coming to understand the beauty in the life I'm living, however ordinary, today.more all of that, capped with elegant writing and breathless imagery, has made me feel some type of way about myself, my life and how I fit into the world around me. While the story is set in rural China of the 1970s and 80s, a context that is not super familiar or relatable to me, the connections between characters, the emotions that arise from life events, happy or sad, and the ideals and struggles and tragedies and dreams. Despite this, Lu Yao's book describes what its title proclaims - the ordinary, the day-to-day of life, and how beautiful it can all be. Reading this book has been exhausting, and it's entirely unclear whether that's been because of the amount of time it's taken me to finish it, the fact that Chinese is my less comfortable native language or something else. While the story is set in rural China of the 1970s and 80s, a context that is not After more than 5 months, I am finally done with this book. Perhaps my biggest positive takeaway is from Chapter 21, "Hearing Aid": "Tell me about the God you love tell me about what He has inspired uniquely in you tell me about what you're going to do about it, and a plan for your life will be pretty easy to figure out from there." (p.After more than 5 months, I am finally done with this book. I'd be curious to find out how, exactly, Goff does engage the scriptures, as well-given his aversion to "Bible study." Sometimes the book feels geared more toward Christians already well versed in the Bible, to move them out of head knowledge and into action, living out what they believe. I'm still SMH a bit on that chapter in _Love Does_. We give "satan" (little-"s" intentional, because Goff made _such a point_ of that) too much credit? How would Goff respond to 1 Peter 5:8, or Ephesians 6:10-17? Maybe we do give the devil a lot of credit, and when he gets more credit than our Savior, I fully agree that's problematic. Still other times, I felt the scriptures or stories themselves somewhat shoehorned into the point Goff was attempting to make. (The $400 room-service-bill prank on a honeymooning BFF? Really? I kept waiting for him to say, "Don't worry, I did actually cover the bill," but he never did. Other stories, though, I just found at best tacky. Several of the stories were literally-LOL funny. With all its 5-star reviews, I feel somewhat in the minority (and probably am).Ĭertainly, Goff writes engagingly (much like I envision he speaks live/in person), and I understand the appeal of the read.
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