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A good day for baking.

A good day for baking.

Li Jiaying
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The highly anticipated return of Revolving Planet presents the new BackLit series – shedding light behind literature. The first work in the series is a limited edition, commemorative bonus "Good Days for Writing" writing set, including a journal and a customized jade rabbit pencil.
The journal concept and copy are inspired by "Good Days in the Oven," a unique notebook designed to focus on each "today"—today I saw goosebumps; what happened today...; today someone told me: "Unvisited places always seem as far away as if they could never be reached."—recording the unique sights, sounds, and experiences of each day.
"Are you dying?"
A memoir of hunting down elementary school classmates and battling others' memories, concealing a novel that unearths the secrets of growing up, our attempts to make cherished moments eternal.
Once the idea of immortality takes hold, everyone must go into the oven.
"After time breaks into a line, the further you go, the more you see those as specimens of moments; they died when I pinned them onto a flat surface with words."
Literary urban legend Jia-Ying Li's new novel, sixteen years after "Don't Bark," "47 Wandering Seeds," and "Small Minced Meat."
American poet Plath put her head in the oven and ended her story. But where does Adan's story begin?
In fourth grade, she was ostracized by the class "Children's Committee" for being "too fond of playing with boys" and "too proud"; since birth, her mother talked to her about everything except baby talk; during the "Liar" game at dinner, her parents, who had never argued, suddenly announced their divorce; during the summer vacation after elementary school, she lay alone on the living room floor waiting for time to pass; in junior high, living in a girls' dormitory, she saw hickeys on necks and lovely scents; at thirteen, she met 25-year-old He Wei-Guang, and his question "What are you thinking?" made her uncontrollably feel love every time she heard it thereafter; she unexpectedly discovered she had been deceived, and the one who defrauded her was her own...
Is it a memoir, a writing journal, or a novel? Adan caught a ghost and, placing it on the tip of her pen, could transmit it. However, any image, sound, text, or broad definition of recording is a delusion of sealing the present into eternity; once the idea of immortality takes hold, everyone must go into the oven!
Literary urban legend Jia-Ying Li's new novel, sixteen years after "Don't Bark," "47 Wandering Seeds," and "Small Minced Meat," wraps a coming-of-age story in sharp, lively language, striking at the essence of writing. Through the protagonist Adan, who temporarily abandons writing novels to rewrite memoirs after growing up, the contradictions between memory and writing are reflected from her fifteen-year-old life. Whether it's idol worship in her youth, or the lovable parts of a heart still alive in a world that felt abandoned, everything is covered and consumed at the moment of recording. When memory and words intertwine, in the layered narrative, those attempted stories remain incredibly good, and meaning is about to emerge.
Recommendations from Notables
● Filmmaker / Wang Shi
● Lyricist / Li Zhuo-Xiong
● Writer and Host / Ma Shi-Fang
● Novelist / Zhang Yi-Xuan
● Writer and Former Editor / Chen Yu-Hang - Recommended without delay
★ Completely unprepared, this novel suddenly pried open the door to my memories, and I felt an urge to cry. Filmmaker / Wang Shi
★ An easily accessible novel that will inspire a bit more thought. Writer and Former Editor / Chen Yu-Hang
★ Allow me to borrow Jia-Ying Li's words: She is someone who can "live a moment into a universe" through writing. Writer and Host / Ma Shi-Fang
★ "The funniest girl is on stage!" — I kept exclaiming in admiration as I read. This book is beautiful, deeply moving, and very feminist. If Virginia Woolf had turned to comics, Shusaku Endo had been reincarnated as a woman, and Medea's children had one day faked their deaths and revived, it would probably be this magnificent! I love "Good Days in the Oven," not only because Jia-Ying Li addresses many of the crucial nooks and crannies that I have long considered important but also because this is a spirited "book of relaxation." Relaxing from suffering, relaxing from gender, and even relaxing from literature—like a long, slow sigh, letting us know that someone is still offering deep breaths. "Breathing well"—to help the world breathe, I want to strongly recommend this book. Novelist / Zhang Yi-Xuan

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页数/Page: 280