Perri Klass and her mother, Sheil a Solomon Klass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be ideal co-writers as they examine their decades of motherhood, daughterhood, and the wonderful ways their lives have overlapped（重叠）.

Perri notes with     1     how closely her own life has mirrored her mother’s: both have fulltime careers; both have published books, articles, and stories; each has three children; they both love to read. They also love to travel ---- in fact, they often take trips together. But in truth, the harder they look at their lives, the more they acknowledge their big     2     in circumstance and basic nature.

A child of the Depression（大萧条）, Sheil a was raised in Brooklyn by parents who considered     3     a luxury for girls. Starting with her college education, she has fought for everything she’s ever accomplished. Perri, on the other hand, grew up     4     in the New Jersey suburbs of the1960s and 1970s. For Sheila, wasting time or money is a crime, and luxury is     5     while Perri enjoys the occasional small luxury, but has not been successful at trying to persuade her mother into enjoying even the tiniest thing she likes.

Each writing in her own unmistakable voice, Perri and Sheil a take turns     6     the joys and pains, the love and bitterness, the minor troubles and lasting respect that have always bonded them together. Sheil a describes the adventure of giving birth to Perri in a tiny town in Trinidad where her husband was doing     7     fieldwork. Perri admits that she can’t sort out all the mess in the households, even though she knows it drives her mother crazy. Together they compare thoughts on bringing up children and working, admit long-hidden sorrows, and enjoy precious memories.

Looking deep into the lives they have lived     8     and together, Perri and Sheil a tell their mother-daughter story with honesty, humor, enthusiasm, and admiration for each other. A written     9     in two voices, Every Mother Is a Daughter is a duet（二重奏） that produces a deep, strong sound with the experiences that all mothers and daughters will     10     .

3 . If you’re looking for an amazing book, here are some of the best books of the year.

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is a historical science fiction novel. It blends elements of fantasy and science fiction with unconventional organization to create a complex world of plots relating across generations. The plot follows five main characters through three timelines. The characters all face internal and external conflict when they learn that the world is more complex than they thought in a coming-of-age plot.

Crying in H Mart

When Michelle Zauner was in her twenties, her mother’s death changed her life forever and forced her to accept her Korean American identity. Crying in H Mart extracts the facts from the human memory’s self-protective mechanism in the face of grief and gives readers a chance to relate to Zauner.

Pony

It is a historical novel that suits adolescents. It talks about a 12-year-old boy named Silas who is woken in the middle of the night to see his father being taken away by three horsemen. With only his horse named Pony by his side, Silas sets off on a life-changing mission to find his father.

You Will Get Through This Night

It is a nonfiction read about mental health that offers both a personal and professional outlook on how to get through personal struggles with depression and anxiety in the dark nights. Dividing the book into three chapters —This Night, Tomorrow, and The Days After — Daniel Howell wants readers to not just survive the dark nights but properly care about their mental health.

Chinese Online Literature Gains in Popularity Overseas

Thanks to our country’s push to help Chinese culture go overseas, many Chinese online literature companies have been gaining influence overseas in recent years through the     1    (establish) of online platforms. According to a recent report, the number of overseas readers of Chinese online literary works     2    (rise) to more than 31.9 million.

Many overseas readers even write online novels by imitating Chinese online literary works. Logan,     3     young man living in Texas of the United States, is a big fan of China’s online literature.     4    (inspire) by Chinese online literary works, he began to write his own online novels. “I draw inspiration from Chinese online novels. Classic Chinese literary works,     5    (particular) Journey to the West, are also the inspiration for some of the characters in my novels,” he said.

“Human beings love stories, and some values of heroes in stories     6    (share) by people around the world,” an employee of China Literature said, adding that heart-warming stories with ambitious characters and traditional Chinese culture elements are     7    (attract) to overseas readers.

    8     translation of mainstream Chinese books may be struggling, English language readers of popular online writings are funding their own translations. For some Western readers,     9    (check) whether or not the latest chapter of their favorite online serial has been translated from Chinese     10     English is the first thing they do in the morning.

Science fiction is regarded by many people as a mirror through which our future can be     1    (free) imagined and explored. The Three-Body Problem, written by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, is one of those     2    (astonish) predictions about the future. The work was first published in a Chinese sci-fi magazine in 2006. When the first volume     3    (translate) into English by Chinese-American author Ken Liu, it attracted attention around the world, becoming the first Asian winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book represents many     4    (theme) such as space exploration, alien contact, AI, and the future of humans.

The Three-Body Problem begins with the stories of two unrelated people, Ye Wenjie and Wang Miao. Ye is recruited(征募) to join     5     secret project in a remote area of China, which has been set up to contact alien life forms. In the other story,     6    (set) 20 years later, Wang Miao gets caught up in a popular online game called “Three Body”, in     7     people live on an unknown planet with three suns. But Wang discovers it is more than a game — it uncovers a great danger     8    (threaten) human existence. How are these two people’s stories connected? And how will their     9    (behave) change Earth’s future and the civilisations of other planets? Answers     10     all these questions are waiting to be discovered when you go on reading.

There’s been a warning about the immediate death of literate civilization for a long time. In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to bring disaster for the written world. None did. Reading     1    ; in fact, it has thrived. The world is more     2     than ever before—there are more and more readers, and more and more books.

The fact that we often get our reading material online today is not something we should worry about. The electronic and digital revolution of the last two decades has     3     shown the way forward for reading and for writing. Take the arrival of e-book readers as an example. Devices like Amazon’s Kindle make reading more convenient and are a lot more environmentally friendly than the traditional paper book.

As technology makes new ways of writing possible, new ways of reading are now     4    . Inter-connectivity allow for a reading experience that was     5     imaginable before. Where traditional books had to make do with photographs and illustrations, an e-book can provide readers with a(n)     6     number of links: to texts, pictures and videos. In the future, the way people write novels, history and philosophy will resemble nothing seen in the past.

On the other hand, there is the danger of underestimating. One Twitter group is offering its followers single-sentence-long “     7     of the great novels. War and Peace in a sentence? You must be joking. We should fear the fragmentation (碎片化) of reading. There is the danger that the high-speed     8     of the internet will reduce our attention span—that we will be incapable of reading anything of length or which requires deep     9    .

In such a fast-changing world, in which reality seems to be     10     each day, we need the ability to focus and understand what is happening to us. This has always been the function of literature and we should be careful not to let it disappear. Our society needs to be able to imagine the possibility of someone utterly in tune with modern technology as well as make sense of a dynamic yet confusing world.

The day I heard that the Rainbow Bookstore was closing after 50 years of business, I was heartbroken. The bookstore was a place    1    anyone could drop in and connect through their love of books.

When I hurried to the store, I had a long chat     2     Casey, the store’s elderly owner. Sighing deeply, he told me how it was becoming difficult    3     (run) an independent bookstore. Most young people preferred    4     (read) e-books on tablets.   

Childhood memories came back to me so clearly, as if the events    5     (happen) only yesterday. I turned to wave goodbye to Casey, with he and his bookstore    6     (hide) in a thick mist.   

A few months later, I was    7     (surprise) to see that the Rainbow Bookstore was still there and open for business.     8     (clear), the Rainbow Bookstore was in good, creative hands.

I joined Casey, who was looking up at the screen on which readers’ comments kept popping up. “Well, as you can see, corporate knowledge combined with    9     (creative) has brought my humble bookstore into    10    21st century!”