Besties 2
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Summary
Editor's review
Ai Mingya's writing has its own texture—restrained and precise, rarely sentimental, yet able to capture precisely the subtle emotional folds and relational tensions in plain descriptions of daily details. She discusses support and comparison, witnessing and estrangement, symbiosis and independence among best friends; her observations go beyond gender to touch on the emotional maintenance and self-boundary issues that modern people generally face. This makes the book's value lie not only in finding resonance about women's friendship but also in engaging in reflection on "relationships" and "the self." For readers who often feel that interpersonal relationships are superficial and self-knowledge blurred in a fast-paced life, this book offers a possible path to slow down, look inward and sort out important relationships.
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who wish to think deeply about the multidimensional meaning of women's friendship and seek resonance beyond appearances
- Urban people in a period of adjusting relationships who long to sort out their self-boundaries and emotional connections
- Ai Mingya's loyal readers who wish to continue following her calm and delicate touch in observing life
- Those interested in non-fiction works exploring modern emotional states and self-growth
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting light, pleasant, plot-driven best-friend stories or gossipy anecdotes
- Readers seeking immediate interpersonal skills or solutions to emotional problems
Reading tips
- Read the chapters in order to feel the gradual unfolding and deepening of the author's thought; there is no need to rush.
- While reading, you may reflect on your own experience, but better to maintain some aesthetic distance and savor the precision of her language and density of thought.
- Read alongside the author's previous book Besties to better appreciate the continuity and evolution of her thinking.
About the publisher
Yilin Press focuses mainly on translated foreign literature. Its current catalogue of 318 titles covers common categories such as mystery and detective fiction, foreign literature, world classics, biography, and social novels. Representative books include The Complete Sherlock Holmes 2: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, To the Lighthouse, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, and Lives of the Artists: Michelangelo, often presented in bilingual or English-language editions that serve both original-text reading and language learning. Its author resources include foreign writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Romain Rolland, as well as translators including Li Jiazhen, Gao Fen, and Ma Ye. The catalogue also includes Chinese works such as Li Jieren's Ripples Across Stagnant Water. The press shows a concentrated publishing strength in foreign classics and bilingual readers; given limited public information, this overview is based only on catalogue data.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 代序 我们这样沉入生活的深海
- 自序 丰满的是心，不是臀
- 衣食住行
- 舌尖之上，心头之下
- 最养十指阳春水
- 有日常，浮生不似梦
- 家住烟火人间地
- 与老闺蜜的少年游
- 谁人不识芒果台
- 大城姑娘，小城姑娘
- 春当看花，夏可观雨
- 长沙城里的濡与沫
- 屎尿屁的人生才是人生
- 过节时，松松绑
- 接地气的人，过日子的心
- 赠人红酒，心有余香
- 杨贵妃迷死唐明皇
- 闺阁夜话
- 之前是梦，之后是痛
- 现实太饥荒，你要狠心肠
- 做伴侣，不要做知己
- 头脑清醒时，爱情甜蜜日
- 千山万水与近在咫尺
- 觉醒过后，冤家聚首
- 自由是方向，坚强是翅膀
- 我的闺蜜，她的爱情
- 相亲就是一场衡量
- 没点小宇宙，哪能江湖走
- 成熟虽残忍，但它不可耻
- 《简·爱》，爱得简或者繁
- 高帅富一笑泯恩仇
- 好男善杀猪，好女会读书
- 带得走的性，带不走的爱
- 放下爱情，立地成活
- 乱点鸳鸯
- 过去有多近，未来有多远
- 少谈一些爱情，多谈一些自己
- 鱼虽鲜美，熊掌也肥
- 下乡有风险，孔雀需谨慎
- 好好学习，自退情敌
- 胡同边有马路，井口外是大天
- 是头狮子就要咆哮
- 你只需要选择走，或是留
- 你的爱情你做主
- 好感之后，爱情之前
- 好男如烈马，好女要擅驾
- 原谅之后，轨同虚设
- 什么山，什么鸟，什么歌
- 你的爱为何总不得善终
- 艾明雅
- 关于本书
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About the author
Ai Mingya is an author about whom limited public information is available; three of her works are included in the collection. Judging from the existing titles, her writing falls mainly into two categories: social fiction and inspirational personal growth. Her representative works, Guimi and Guimi 2, take female friendship and urban life as their subject, using close bonds between women to portray the emotional, workplace, and self-identity dilemmas of contemporary women. The Uterus Is Not a Prison: Awakening Women's Inner Strength turns to women's physical and mental well-being, encouraging self-awareness and personal growth. Together these works show her attention to women's experience and inner strength, written for a general readership in accessible language. Because details such as dates of birth and death, nationality, and education are unavailable, her personal life cannot be described in detail; this introduction is based only on the collected works and their categories, without further inference.
