Open the First Page of the New Year，Let Words Illuminate Your Path
In 2025, through the pages of books, we embraced countless souls—witnessing their struggles in hardship and their quiet greatness in the ordinary:
At the dawn of the new year, WKU library invites you to a journey through words. May these books light your path through life’s wilderness: in "Departure", glimpse the world’s endless facets and take your first steps; in "Voyage", navigate the depths of connection and the questions that shape a life; in "Arrival", let the journey’s landscapes settle and feel the quiet resonance of your path.
departure The World’s Edges & the Echoes Within
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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"Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" spans two decades of friendship, creation, and love. Sam and Sadie build worlds in pixels while navigating life’s losses and second chances, reflecting our hopes and uncertainties in a digital age.
《小城与不确定性的墙》
PL856.U673 M87 2024 CN
In a town walled by "certainty," the mist of "uncertainty" sparks upheaval. An archivist, teacher, and engineer confront collapsing boundaries, realizing the wall restricts both space and thought. Their choices explore humanity’s struggle between safe confinement and the freedom of the unknown.
The Vanishing Half
PS3602.E66444 V36 2020
Twin sisters Stella and Desiree take separate paths—one passes as white, the other stays with her daughter. Across forty years, their children’s meeting reveals the entwined costs of race, identity, and choice.
《可能的世界》
G439 Y36 2024 CN
Journalist Yang Xiao retraces the 1938 southward journey of Southwest Associated University students, blending past and present. The book reflects on history, memory, and place, and on young people seeking their place and inner home amid societal upheaval.
Voyage Navigating Relationship Fog
《未经删节》
PN149.9.A88 A84 2024 CN
A profound reflection on life, exploring honesty with others and self-acceptance. It follows a woman navigating upheaval, asserting boundaries, and attaining inner growth and freedom.
《东京八平米》
PL819.O8 Y67 2022 CN
In an eight-square-meter Tokyo flat, the author discovers freedom and forms warm urban connections, redefining home and savoring life’s quiet joys.
THE BEE STING
PR6113.U78 M87 2023
The Barnes family navigates hidden struggles amid middle-class life. Through metaphor and turmoil, the novel traces their isolation, yet hints at fragile possibilities for connection and redemption.
《离岛》
PL2944.U77 K87 2024 CN
Kuso spent three years on Japan’s remote islands, immersing in their quiet rhythms and daily life, capturing each moment with prose full of salty warmth and gentle healing.
Arrival The Taste of Life & the Shelter of the Soul
《四千周》/ Four Thousand Weeks
HD69.T54 B87 2022 CN / HD69.T54 B87 2023
A reflective guide on time and life, inviting us to embrace our limits, savor the everyday, and cultivate inner calm amid life’s busyness and restlessness.
A Man of Two Faces:A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
F869.S394 N48 2023
Against the backdrop of war and migration, memory and history intertwine. Trauma, identity, and cultural divides are gently reconciled, guiding readers on a soulful journey of warmth and reflection.
《隐墙》
PT2617.A425 H38 2024 CN
Isolated by an invisible wall, she faces the forest and time alone, rediscovering life’s essence. The novel’s delicate pace evokes the subtle bonds between humans, nature, and self, offering quiet reflection amid modern noise.
《成年人的谎言生活》
PQ4866.E6345 F47 2021 CN
Between truth and illusion, Giovanna navigates pretense, conflict, and emotion, learning resilience and discernment. Each insight lights a small glow, revealing the weight of growth and the warmth of life.
In an age of noise and fractured attention, we need a steady light—one that doesn’t flicker like a screen, but glows quietly through words and thought.
May the new year find you drawing strength from reading, clearing the fog with every page, and moving at your own rhythm toward a wider world and a farther horizon.
Content | GU Mengmeng & CHENG Yang
Layout | LI Siyao
Review | GU Mengmeng & HU Linxiao
