Reading Review
Book review
“How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours A Day” is a non-fiction book written by a prolific British writer Around Bennett. It was first published in Jan. 1st, 2010 by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. This book is more than popular in western countries. It is a time management motivational book that influenced the life of Winston Churchill, the British prime minister in the course of Word Wal II. French statesman Napolen, Ford Motor founder Henry, Ford Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and famous US president Bill Clinton all found inspiration in reading this book on their way to starting their brilliant lives “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours A Day” has sold millions of copies and remains popular.
Arnold Bennett, is an English writer. He is famous for his novels. He was also a dramatist, essayist, critic and journalist. Born in Stafford in the north of England, he was a prolific writer who wrote more than 30 novels and a large number of plays and book reviews. His masterpiece is “The Old Lady’s Tales.”
This book is a non-fiction book, so it doesn’t have inspiring plots and bright characters, but this book use its fresh, humor to show how one can improve the quality of one’s life by using one’s time more efficiently, it’s not a collection of time-using techniques. It is a real picture of everyday life that makes you feel so hateful and bored that you decide to make a change your current lifestyle.
From my own perspective, it is extremely useful book for our students to know how to manage our own time. The book gives us quite a few examples to manage our time. For example, as the book says: “when you have conscientiously given sever hours and a half a week to the cultivation of you vitality for three months-then you may begin to sing louder and tell yourself what wondrous things you are capable of doing.” But the precondition is that you can continue doing it, no matter how difficult it is you can hold on. As the matter of fact, many of our young people have a common phenomenon that we only have three-minute passion whatever we do, in the end, we did not t get anything done. This is a very bad phenomenon I think, especially as an English major student, we have an army of words、articles、sentences to remember, if we can't do it consistently, in the end, we will have countless things to remember, at that time, even if we were able to split our bodies, we wouldn't be able to remember them at all once.
This book is very suitable for our students to read. But I also think the language of this book is a little to understand, it's also have some difficulty reading it fluently. If there are more examples of the author, maybe it will be more easier to read. Although this, I also advise the students try to read this book, as to this book can give us many inspires about managing our time.
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