While reading in the study, I was drawn into a book until midnight. Outside
the window, the wind was blowing on the autumn rain was starting to fall. I got
off my chair and went to close the window. The raindrops knocked on it, and made
a beautiful rhythm. Then when I took up the book again, there seemed to be
something else on it. That was a shadow of myself in the past.
Books have been my best friends since my early childhood. I loved books. I
read picture-story books first, and then novels. My mother bought or borrowed
many picture-story books for me when she found my hobby. Some of them were given
as my birthday presents. When I was a little older, I bought picture-story books
with my small savings that were saved from the breakfasts and the luck money I
got on Spring Festival. There was always along list of the books’ names when I
went to the library. I found I couldn’t enjoy myself to the full. So I often
went to the bookstore to buy some more.
Then came the “Culture Revolution”. I couldn’t go anywhere, and could not
be one of the“rebelled persons”. So reading was my only “job”. I hid in my
little room everyday and read my“library” one by one. It can be said that by
this way of living, books were my faithful friends. Reading and buying books was
an interesting thing.
It is true that books are my best friends. But once they put me into a bad
situation. It was thirty years ago. On the farm I was working, a movement
called “cleaning the thought of capitalism’ wasstarted. All the books had to
be handed in and burnt, including English text books. Someone reported to the
head of the production team that I had some capitalist books. So I was ordered
to hand them in. I put the books into my baggage and kept silent about it. The
leaders there had talks with me one by one. I could not be insistent and handed
in some of them. I tore a novel before them to proof my determination. I hid in
the bed and had a sad weep for my books.
From then on, I always locked my baggage carefully, so that they could not
find my books. One day, however, after I came back from the farmland, I got a
glimpse of my baggage and my face turned white at once. God save me! The cover
of the baggage was opened, and a novel appeared within the clothes. I closed
it hurriedly. But one head there found the book. She asked me to land the novel
and promised to return it some days later. So I lost another book.
I locked my baggage all the time to prevent others seeing my books, especially
that English book. The owner of the book was a good friend of mine. She was worried
about me and asked me to keep itcarefully. My nerves always felt tense during those
days until the situation was changed. No one knew about my books that were hidden
in my baggage while I left the farm.
Those sad and ignorant days were passed. Books are still the best friends of
mine. I often go to the bookstore to spend hundreds of RMB Yuan and take back many
books, not only Chinese readings, but also English ones. I get the books not only
for me but for my daughter as well.
I am so satisfied that I can swim in the sea of books.










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