一切因为美好：《查令十字街84号》读后感
昨日收到朋友馈赠的《查令十字街84号》
虽近日工作极多，但还是忍不住读了一遍并想在这里絮叨几句，向恰好读到此文的你推荐。
这本书是一位纽约女作家与伦敦古旧书店之间关于邮购旧书的往来信件合集，出版后十分受欢迎，后来还改变成舞台剧和电影。
为什么这本书能如此受欢迎？我自己读后的感受，是心中感到温暖。《查令十字街84号》中有真诚，有汉芙小姐快人快语的真诚；有弗兰克
德尔及家人、其他员工无论尽心竭力收集汉芙小姐需要的书籍还是对她在英国物资匮乏时且自己经济不很宽裕时提供火腿、鸡蛋等感激的真诚；而汉芙小姐因为经济等原因在德尔先生生前一直没有去过“她的书店”，但汉芙小姐的朋友们去伦敦顺拜访查令十字街84号的马克斯与科恩书店时，并告知她们是汉芙小姐的朋友，都受到了最热情的招待“我们一说出是你的好友，便被大家团团围住......他们所有人都一副要好好地款待我们才肯善罢甘休的样子，我们差点儿就葬身在难却的盛情之中！”
为什么这本书能得到很多人的喜欢？因为里面虽有缘悭一面的遗憾，但到处都充满了美好，读书、搜书中的美好，当汉芙小姐收到一本其心系已久的书，小心翼翼地摊开书本，仔细地查看装帧、品鉴插图，与几十年前的读者在精神世界神游，多么美好！虽然你的生活比较拮据，但能对未能谋面的朋友纾困解难，多么美好！弗兰克
德尔对汉芙小姐的称谓从“敬爱的夫人”到“敬爱的汉芙小姐”到“亲爱的汉芙小姐”最后变到“亲爱的海莲”，英国绅士的谨言慎行让你感到美好！最后，一切是因为大家共同喜欢的书籍，让你感到美好！
我不是很关注书的品相的，但译林出版社的2005年版，装帧精美，尤其要提到的目录前的内页粘贴的一方小纸。
If
you
happen
to
pass
by
84
Charing
Cross
Road,
kiss
it
for
me!
I
owe
it
so
much.
你们若恰好路经查令十字街84号，代我献上一吻，我亏欠它良多。

84 Charing Cross Road is one of my favorite movies. Based on the memoirs of Helene Hanff (the book contains the letters from which they read throughout the film), this is the story of a single New York woman named Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) who builds a forty-year friendship with some people who work in a bookstore in England. The movie begins during WWII as Helene, a writer, is searching for out-of-print books and, frustrated at the poor selection in the city's bookstores, starts writing letters to the Marx brother's bookstore in England. Through her letters, she not only becomes a frequent customer, but eventually, becomes quite close with all of the bookstore's employees. And through their letters, they share experiences over the years, which the viewer witnesses through a juxtasposition of two different cultures: American and British.
I like the technique used in this film. The interaction between Helene and her British friends occurs only through letters, so rather than have the characters write a letter and then dub what is written, eventually, the characters just face the camera and say what they would have written, with the camera cutting back and forth for each others response at times as though we suddenly become the recipient of their conversations.
The film also has a wonderful cast with Anne Bancroft as Helene, Anthony Hopkins as the generous Frank P. Doel, Judi Dench as his wife, and Mercedes Ruehl as Helene's neighbor. It is a wonderful story.