不便利的便利店

金浩然
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人生就是會有很多不便利、不舒服，
這間有點慘澹的便利店，卻為我們撐起了閃閃發光的空間……

艱難時刻的光亮之書
一間便利店，接通了我們的幸福人生

★韓國年度最受歡迎小說

這間有點不便利，卻讓人想一再前往的便利店，
藏著能在艱難生活中給你安慰的各樣物品。

買一送一的喜悅、三角飯糰模樣的悲傷，
以及一萬元所帶來的四次歡笑，
充滿特別的故事與奇妙商品組合的便利店，時時歡迎您！

◎便利店「幫人生加值」小語
※我問，支持妳的力量究竟是什麼？
她說，人生本來就是不斷解決問題，既然都要解決問題，那就努力選還可以的問題來解。
※便利店是個人們來來去去的空間，無論店員還是客人，都只是短暫停留的過客。便利店就像間加油站，讓人們用物品或金錢為自己加值。
※為什麼開心？因為炸雞？因為爸爸的陪伴？其實無論是什麼都沒關係，因為能一起吃雞的就是家人。
※人生就是關係，關係的根本就是溝通。我發現只要我們能跟身旁的人交心，幸福其實離我們不遠。
※巴布狄倫的外婆曾經告訴他，幸福不是在通往目標路途上的某樣東西，而是那條路本身就是幸福。你所遇見的每個人，都在苦苦掙扎著與什麼對抗，所以你必須親切待人。

韓國讀者口碑推薦
‧這是一本我想推薦給所有人的人生之書。你讀的時候，很可能一會兒哭一會兒笑，但不知不覺間心頭就暖呼呼了。
‧擦肩而過的人，竟然可以成為彼此生活前進的支撐。一本讓我看到人生力量的書。
‧我的眼角掛著淚，嘴邊帶著笑。多虧這本書，讓我熬過疫病籠罩的日子。
‧哭著，笑著，心也跟著暖了。
‧場景不陌生、人物不陌生，就連裡面的衝突也不陌生，但是人們彼此表達善意卻是這個冷陌時代最需要的態度。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Your Time to Thrive: End Burnout, Increase Well-being, and Unlock Your Full Potential with the New Science of Microsteps

Marina Khidekel
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This revolutionary guide to real change introduces microsteps—tiny, science-backed changes that will help you get your life back on track.

​Live the life you want, not the life you settle for.

Helping people build healthy new habits that improve their lives is more important than ever. Arianna Huffington launched Thrive Global to do just that--Thrive's specific mission is to end the epidemic of stress and burnout and help individuals and companies unlock their greatest potential. Science continues to show that we don't have to sacrifice our well-being in order to succeed; in fact, it turns out that well-being is critical to peak performance.
Learning to thrive means:

• Moving from awareness to action - from knowing what to do to actually doing it
• Embracing solutions that appeal to wisdom, wonder, intuition, reflection, and are steeped in science
• Taking the time to rest and recover in order to fuel and maximize productivity, both personal and professional
• Making the mindset shifts and habit changes that supercharge performance in ways that truly matter to us

Eschewing trendy self-care fixes or the latest health fads, Your Time to Thrive is the revolutionary guide to living and working based on Microsteps--tiny, science-backed changes. By making them too-small-to fail, we can incorporate them into our daily lives right away, and begin building healthier ways of living and working. This book is a Microstep bible. With chapters dedicated to sleep, nutrition, movement, focus and prioritization, communication and relationships, unplugging and recharging, creativity and inspiration, and purpose/meaning, Your Time to Thrive shares practical, usable, research-supported mini-habits that will yield huge benefits and empower people to truly thrive in all parts of their lives.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

閱讀電影與電影閱讀 : 深度解讀及分析著名的中外電影

曉龍
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透過電影提升學生閱讀興趣的影評結集，是學生及電影從業員必備的電影導賞天書

如果觀眾只看電影，忽視了創作人透過此故事表達自己的人生觀的意圖，就浪費了創作人藉著影片傳送的訊息的一番苦心。作者精選了62套電影，環繞著人際關係、生命價值、感情世界、社會探索，分別從縱向及橫向的角度進行思考和分析。資深影評人兼中學教師曉龍透過影像獨特的力量，帶學生閱讀世界的真善美，加深讀者對電影的認識，提升觀影水平！此書的後半部分被命名為《電影•閱讀》，作者以電影及其改編的原著小說為本，比較電影與小說的異同，探討電影與小說的關係，還對小說改編為電影的成果進行跨文本的分析。

本書獲電影界和教育界人士好評，電影愛好者必讀！

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Scott McCloud
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The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication.

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.

Amazon.com Review
A comic book about comic books. McCloud, in an incredibly accessible style, explains the details of how comics work: how they're composed, read and understood. More than just a book about comics, this gets to the heart of how we deal with visual languages in general. "The potential of comics is limitless and exciting!" writes McCloud. This should be required reading for every school teacher. Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman says, "The most intelligent comics I've seen in a long time."

(Excerpt from amazon.com)


Europe in a Comic Strip Exhibition showcases thirteen comic strip pages illustrating the great moments that have built Europe that we know today, with the objectives of introducing major events in European history at a glance, and appreciating comic art from a cultural and historical perspective. The exhibition is being held from 5 May to 16 June 2023 at Wofoo Foundation Gallery, Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong. READ MORE

城市如何文化

茹國烈
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城市是什麼？
文化是什麼？
城市如何文化？

本書探討城市文化，提出「文化系統」、「文化指數」、「文化地圖」及「文化空間」等概念，解構城市文化的各種要素。作者選取了十四個著名城市，深度考察它們怎樣成為獨特的文化都市。最後，作者走訪香港各區，探索各自的文化特質，對香港未來的城市文化發展規劃提出建議。香港如何「文化」？讀者可以透過本書，與作者共同思考未來香港的城市文化發展。

(Excerpt from mybookone.com.hk)

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Hernan Diaz
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

“Buzzy and enthralling …A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery…Fun as hell to read.” —Oprah Daily

"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression."—Vanity Fair

“A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed.” —Esquire

"Exhilarating.” —New York Times

Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.

Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.

At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.

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