Weibo chats have turned exams into valuable tools, fueling a surge in reading…

# Argenti­na:
Last night I gave my daugh­ter a book. I told her it was a top-notch sto­ry! She asked why. I explained that a good friend had enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly told me about a fan­tas­tic teen film he’d just seen. After a few lines of the plot, I declared with cer­tain­ty that it had to be “Bridge to Ter­abithia”! There are many sto­ries in this world, but only a hand­ful are tru­ly top-notch. The film, trans­lat­ed as “Bridge to Ter­abithia,” is large­ly faith­ful to the orig­i­nal.

(Today 09:42)
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# Argenti­na:
Before going to bed, she read a few chap­ters of “Bridge to Ter­abithia”. I said, it’s late, I’ll go to bed after read­ing this chap­ter. She said that this chap­ter is too short and she needs to read anoth­er one. I said, okay, actu­al­ly you can bring it to school tomor­row and read it with your good friends. Final exams are too annoy­ing, you should read a few more good books to relax.
[whee]
(Today 09:49)
 
# Yanzi:
Haha, the final exam is real­ly annoying~~Mengmeng is also look­ing for a book to relax:) Read­ing “When Hap­pi­ness Comes”.
 
# around ZZ:
The end of the semes­ter is approach­ing, and the teacher does­n’t allow us to bring extracur­ric­u­lar books to school. For­tu­nate­ly, I have very lit­tle home­work recent­ly, so I have time to read more books to relax [haha]
 
# Red Mud Argen­tin­ian A‑League:
My daugh­ter’s home­work has dou­bled. She only feels dizzy and her hands are sore when she does it, but she won’t stop doing it. I said, “Then find some good books to catch up. Life should not be with­out fun.”
[hehe]
 
# around ZZ:
Xiaoyin, the elder sis­ter of Aji­a’s fam­i­ly, is in a senior grade and nat­u­ral­ly has a lot of aca­d­e­m­ic work. My lit­tle girl is in the sec­ond grade and is doing well. :)
 
# Qian­qian Lin­feng:
Do you have time to watch it dur­ing this peri­od?
 
# Argen­tine Jia replied to @芊芊临风:
Accord­ing to my expe­ri­ence and some sam­ple sur­veys, for chil­dren who love read­ing, stress­ful exam peri­ods are actu­al­ly peak read­ing times, as read­ing is actu­al­ly one of the best ways to relieve stress. Of course, to have this kind of leisure, one must tru­ly be indif­fer­ent to exams. But strange­ly enough, the less you care about some­thing, the more enjoy­able the results often are.
 
#Daozike­ma:
As par­ents, we can only try our best to use love and tol­er­ance to make up for the harm caused by school edu­ca­tion.
 
#Christinez:
Our fam­i­ly is always in the peak of read­ing, haha! I don’t expect her grades to be very good, just pass­able is fine.
 
# Red Mud Argen­tin­ian A‑League:
It’s true that there are dai­ly read­ing peaks, but if exams can be used to their full poten­tial, they can become a valu­able tool for boost­ing read­ing. At the end of third grade, Xiaoyin and sev­er­al of her class­mates read near­ly 4 mil­lion words of Har­ry Pot­ter in just two weeks. At the end of fourth grade, they tack­led the even more ter­ri­fy­ing Lord of the Rings (includ­ing Past and Present Lives). Hon­est­ly, exams are more use­ful than hol­i­days, as there are so many games avail­able to replace them.
[Ha ha]
 
# Zhong Yu Par­ents:
Haha, “The final exams are so annoy­ing, I should read some good books to relax.” I like this sug­ges­tion.
 
# Changchang Youy­ou:
I’ve also heard of this book. Do you sell it at Hong­ni?
 
# Argenti­na:
This book has been rec­om­mend­ed on Red Mud for years, so it’s def­i­nite­ly avail­able. Kather­ine Pat­ter­son is a writer I par­tic­u­lar­ly admire, and she has a strong con­nec­tion to Chi­na (she was born and spent her child­hood there). Her oth­er two books, Kiri the Adopt­ed Daugh­ter and My Twin Sis­ter and I, are also excel­lent.