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The concise and powerful Hemingway and the simple and mysterious Borges all have their own origins in the formation of their stylistic styles. To understand their methods, we need to see through the hidden clues behind their works - which authors and works have profoundly influenced them? There are also clues behind these authors and books. When all the clues gradually come together, the freedom of reading will truly come. All clues are roads, and they intersect like a network. Each road leads to a vast world, and each intersection may lead to a choice of different directions. From Zhao Song's collection of book reviews, there are those unspeakable uncertainties and possibilities, as well as the subtle rhythm and rhythm inherent in the text.

This reading essay discusses the works of more than 40 writers in the world literary world, including first-class literary masters such as Leo Tolstoy, Dickens, Maugham, Borges, and Junichiro Tani. It also analyzes the creations of powerful stars, including the 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glick. Glück's exposition and in-depth exploration of his works "Until the World Reflects the Deepest Needs of the Soul" and "The Alloy of Moonlight" have won the recognition of book friends from all walks of life. This collection of essays includes discussions on popular writers such as A. S. Byatt and Peter Handke, and also introduces Western literary works to readers. It has unique insights and is full of brilliance. In addition to seemingly casual reading notes, it is a spiritual journey. Zhao Song is both a novelist and an amateur but "professional" reader. He considers himself "wild", but he reads more extensively and deeply than professional readers.

"Memories will not bring comfort, but they may make the inner life continue." However, "Fushun Stories" is not a memoir-style work. From the initial writing of people and things to the final writing of those insignificant places, after eleven years of preparation, a narrative space was created in which characters and places flowed based on a certain network structure. Among the twenty-five short stories related to Fushun, fifteen are about people and ten are about places. They are scattered and intertwined, continuously unfolding an imaginary place that is erratic but contains warmth and seems to be reminiscence. The latter story moves to a small German town, where there is light where the space opens up.

The ten novels in "Yichun" seem to be able to penetrate and merge with each other. Whether they are seemingly realistic, or interspersed with dreams and the flow of consciousness, they all reflect the author's strong overall control. He focuses on the construction of narrative space. Although there are stories of love, family, family, travel, and detective stories interspersed among them, the situation and immersive experience of the novel are the biggest gains he brings to readers. What he wants to emphasize is that novels exist for imaginary worlds to provide intensely unique experiences that become some kind of "reality." These novels have a "story quality", but they are not "stories". In daily life, people who really have stories often talk little. What Zhao Song wants to do is how to make "storytelling" become a fish swimming in the water in silence, constantly changing, disappearing and appearing. In his eyes, real discovery will always make people silent, and understanding silence is the beginning of understanding novels.

"Hidden" is a collection of short stories that uses part of the content of "Zuo Zhuan" as material and is created using the techniques of contemporary novels. The author does not attempt to present a panoramic view of the Spring and Autumn Period, but pays more attention to the subtle relationship between personal destiny and the times. In that era of constant strife, there were rationalists who adhered to the moral and ethical traditions of the Zhou Dynasty, and there were also people who broke all rules and had no moral bottom line. What appear in the author's writings are Confucius, Xia Ji, Zi Lu, Lu Yingong from a different historical perspective... In the world of novels that constantly change narrative perspectives, readers will even ignore the names of the characters and be immersed in the constant changes in vision, the constant overlap of time, and the constant fusion of various sounds and breaths. It all seems to be happening in the reader's imagination, or in a dream.

A collection of Zhao Song's latest essays. Still continuing Zhao Song's fine observation and control of people, things, and places, the main time and space scene is moved from Fushun, a small northeastern town in "Fushun Stories", to Shanghai, a prosperous city where the writer later lived. Memory and present, past and surroundings are interspersed, recording a missed meeting with Robbe Griet, life in Shanghai, stories with his son, travel diaries, etc. The words are calm and detailed, yet have a soft texture. You need a little patience to encounter these words, because they can allow you to read carefully, make you feel confused, and also allow you to imagine your own story in them.

"You Go to the Wilderness" is a new collection of short stories by Zhao Song, winner of the Young Writer of the Year Award at the One-Way Street Bookstore Literary Award. This is another masterpiece of Zhao Song's novel after Douban's popular novel "Fushun Stories Collection". The stories in the book cover a variety of topics such as real life and the science fiction perspective of artificial intelligence. For example, a mother and her twin sons' trip to the aquarium, the memories and reflections during the journey. There are also conversations between people and artificial intelligence, the unique relationship with robots, the subtle interactions between strangers in urban life, the life changes of middle-aged people, and so on.

"Building Block Book" is the representative work of writer Zhao Song. "Building Block Book" tells the process of how a "person" uses his eyes to establish feelings with the wind, water droplets, buildings, crowds, distances, relationships and many other concrete or abstract things in a modern city without a sense of time. It is a book about life that tells how a person understands himself, approaches others, and coexists harmoniously with all things.