Friday, August 26, 2011

The #spbkchat short story list

Lots of short story fans in the chat this week!

As an aside: it's always my (Maree/justaddbooks) personal little dream that more authors will join in the chat, so I have to give a special shout out to Aussie author Margo Lanagan, who is a semi-regular #spbkchat-er, and it's always fantastic to see her name in the stream :-)

On to the list!

Titles:
A Christmas Memory
Little Black Book of Stories

 First Love and Asya
Shiokari Pass
Hyouten 
Yearn
Oxford Collection of Japanese Short Stories
 My Cousin, My Gastroentorologist 
 Look Who's Morphing

Different Seasons
Apt Pupil
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
The Body
He-y, Come on Ou-t
Pavane
The Gifts of the Body
Am I Blue: Coming Out from the Silence
 A Pornography of Grief
The Square Persimmon
The Shipping News
Brokeback Mountain
In a Bamboo Grove
The Dark House
Under the Dome
It
Strange Horizons (online spec fic magazine)
Semaphore Magazine (spec fic magazine)
Zombies vs Unicorns
Shatterday
The Gifts of the Body 
Master at Margarita
Roadside Picnic

Over the Wall
Etiquette at a Dinner Party
The Master and Margarita
The Turning
At the Bay
Taking Pictures
War and Peace
Cathedral
A Million Little Pieces
Drunk Man's Letter to His Long Dead Wife
Letters for Alganon
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
East of the West
Smoke and Mirrors
Hell Screen
The Girl Who Was Plugged In
Once Upon a time in Aotearoa
Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
A Hero of His Time
Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather
How to Breathe Underwater
The Square Persimmon
A Perfect Day for Bannanafish
Red Nose Day
Love and Romanpunk
Nightsiders
Glitter Rose
Yellowcake
After the Quake
Burning Bright





Authors:
Truman Capote
A S Byatt
Stephen King
Roald Dahl
Truman Capote
Turgenev
Katherine Mansfield
Kaneko Misuzu
David Sedaris
Adam Gopnik
Ayako Miura
Tobsha Learner
Wil Wheaton
Kanai
Sergei Esenin
Mark Leyner
Tom Cho
Kim Westwood
R K Narayan
Sinichi Hoshi
Keith Roberts

Rebecca Brown
Philip Huang

Takashi Atoda
Carole Shields
Annie Proulx
Gary Crew
Terri Windling
Ellen Datlow
Will Self
Harlan Ellison
Isaac Asimov
Chekov
Rebecca Brown
Elizabeth Enright
Lisa Tuttle
Strugatski
Garth Nix
Sue Orr
M. Bulgakov
Tim Winton
Anne Enright
Pelevin
Bulgakov
Gor
Petrov
Lukyanenko
Lem
Raymond Carver

James Frey
Tina Makereti
Jack Marx 
Daniel Keyes
Michael Swanwick
Miroslav Penkov
Simon Van Booy
Neil Gaiman
Angela Slatter 
Lisa Hannett
Tina Makereti
Wolff
Carver

Lermentov
J D Salinger
Charles Bukowski
Henry Miller
Patty Jansen
Alan Baxter
Gary Kemble
David Witt Even
Gao Xinjiang
Akutagawa
Kelley Armstrong
Julie Orringer
Jorge Luis Borges 
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Alice Munro
Gene Wolfe
James Tiptree Jnr
Yevgeny Zamyatin 
Tansy Roberts Rayner
Sue Isle
Marianne de Pierres
Takashi Atoda
Peter Goldsworthy
Alice Munroe
Margo Lanagan
Lorrie Moore
Murakami
Ron Rash






Links:
http://www.belletrista.com/2010/issue7/reviews_9.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Hoshi
http://www.theshortreview.com/
http://www.enewman.co.uk/book-details/from-dark-places
http://literarymixtapes.com/
http://literarymixtapes.com/our-anthologies/nothing-but-flowers/
http://100storiesforqueensland.org/?page_id=22
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/18006
http://randomstatic.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_10&products_id=51
http://rosamirabooks.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Weeks-Apocalypse-Douglas-Lain/dp/1597800341/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3/
http://www.sickchirpse.com/2011/08/23/and-now-as-the-cities-weep/
http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/25-aug-1921/
http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/11/ponies
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/timjones&deepsearch=short
http://www.amazon.com/Transported-ebook/dp/B004R1R4XY/
http://timjonesbooks.blogspot.com/2008/07/said-sheree.html
http://lisahannett.com/tag/years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-2010-ticonderoga-publications-tiny-drops-singing-breath-into-the-dead-commonplace-sacrifices-recommended-reading-woot/


Friday, August 12, 2011

The #spbkchat general chat list

Happy twitterversary to us! Can you believe it's been a year for #spbkchat? Gone fast, hasn't it? Our celebratory chat was an open forum, which are always interesting. The topics range far and wide, and every week - along with our dedicated regulars - it seems we're drawing in new people. Both of these things make us happy. :D

On to the list.

Titles:
Guards! Guards!
Wyrd Sisters
Mort
Daugters-in-Law
The Lake
Love and Romanpunk
Geekzone
Greylands
Shanghai Girls
Secret Fan
Peony in Love
The Music of Chance
1984
IQ84
Revolutionary Road
Moving Pictures
Dreams of Joy
New York Trilogy
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Knuffle Bunny
Housekeeper & Professor
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Snuff
Obernetwyn (series)
Victoria Dahl
American Gods
The Sending
Your Skirt's Too Short: Sex, Power & Choice
Kafka on the Shore
Hard-boiled Wonderland
One Was a Soldier
Mr Allbone's Ferrets
After Dark
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (series)
Deadline
Graffiti Moon
About a Girl
Mirror
Why I Love Australia
Kitchen
Goodbye Tsugumi
Amrita
Piper's Son
Toppling
Noni The Pony
Dubosarsky World Spy
It's Bedtime William!
Family Forest
Tiger's Wife
The Arrival
The Devotion of Suspect X
A Cupboard Full of Coats
Fun & Games
Mr Rosenblum's List
Forgotten Garden
Wither
State of Wonder
Sylvester or the Wicked Uncle
A Game of Thrones
Finder's Shore

Authors:
Joanna Trollope
Banana Yoshimoto
Holly Black
David Leviathan
Margo Lanagan
Richard Yates
Lisa See
Paul Auster
Jackie French
David Melling
Bruce Whatley
Terry Pratchett
Mo Willems
Hauraki Murakami
Isobelle Carmody
Neil Gaiman
Emily Maguire
Oscar Wilde
G K Chesterton
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Fiona Farrell
Chris Crutcher
Jeannie Baker
Bronwyn Bancroft
Melina Marchetta
Sally Murphy
Yoko Ogawa
Anh Do
Shaun Tan
Keigo Higashino
Georgette Heyer
Judith Binney
Patricia Biggs
Ann Patchett
Laura DeStefano
Anna Mackenzie

Links:
http://rereadinglives.blogspot.com/2011/07/indonesian-short-story-event-post-by-co.html (NB: Next week's chat is on Indonesian lit - Indonesian Independence Day is August 17)
http://waurnpondssc.com.au/static/news/large/Booklover_April2011.pdf
http://cbca.org.au/Shortlist_2011.htm




Friday, August 5, 2011

The #spbkchat graphic novel/manga list

Before I get to the list, next Thursday marks our first twitterversary, which is kind of awesome, yes? We started the chat because there was a lack of Southern Hemisphere time-zone book chats, and it's been great to see it grow, and people embrace it. Anyone from anywhere is welcome to pitch up and start chatting - just make sure you include the #spbkchat hashtag and you're away. :-)

Also hit us up on twitter - me at @justaddbooks or Marg at @MargReads or Nat at @inspringthedawn if you have ideas for future chats - we're always open to suggestions. Meanwhile, our list of topics up to the end of September is here: http://spbkchat.blogspot.com/p/topics.html

Right. On to this week's list. We chatted about graphic novels/manga, and it was a fairly chatty chat :-)

Titles:
Phantom (comics)
Sandman (series)
Watchmen
Superman
Emily of the Woods
Hikaru no Go
Death Note
His Little Fish
Honey and Clover
Nodame Cantabile
Batman: Year One
Batman: The Long Halloween
Emma
Kobato
The Lost Girls
Sylvester or the Wicked Uncle
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Batman: No Man's Land
Asterix
The Wolves in the Walls
Oishinbo
Nana
When the Wind Blows
The Snowman
TinTin
Archie Andrews
Smile
One Piece
Kimi ni Todoke
The Arrival
Coraline
Lovelace and Babbage
Teen Titans
Titans
Batgirl
The Boy, the Bear, the Baron and the Bard
Batwoman: Elegy
The Question
Five Books of Blood
Stars & S.T.R.I.P.E
Sailor Moon
Witchblade
Buffy
Dark Swan
Good Neighbors
Courtney Crumrin
Anya's Ghost
Pride and Prejudice
Hard Times
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Dorian Gray
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Outlander
Twilight
Dykes to Watch out For
Fathom & Soulfire
Broken Pieces
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Y: The Last Man
The Walking Dead
Persepolis I and II
Vampire Knight
The Preacher
Preludes and Nocturnes (Sandman)
Fables



Authors/Artists:
Neil Gaiman
Yoshitaka Amano
Charles Dickens
L M Montgomery
Chika Umino
Alan Moore
Georgette Heyer
William Blake
Kaoru Mori
Raymond Briggs
Shaun Tan
Sydney Padua
Gregory Rogers
Michael Turner
Stjepan Sejic
Joss Whedon
Richelle Mead
Holly Black
Ted Naifeh
Vera Brosgol
Raina Telgemeier
Agatha Christie
Alison Bechdel
Marjane Satrapi
Matsuri Hino



Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Anime_and_Manga
http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=312&author=230
http://comicsworthreading.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/blacksadp1.jpg
http://comicsworthreading.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/blacksadp7.jpg
http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bat.jpg
http://www.mariannedepierres.com/peacemaker/peacemaker-details/
http://www.bookdepository.com/Fables-Bill-Willingham/9781401224271
http://www.bookdepository.com/Blacksad-Juan-Diaz-Canales/9781595823939
http://www.bookdepository.com/Y-Last-Man-One-Brian-Vaughan/9781401219215
http://www.bookdepository.com/Walking-Dead-Bk-1-Robert-Kirkman/9781582406190
http://vspages.com/comics-vs-graphic-novels-2050/
http://www.tradereadingorder.com/dc/teen-titans-go-truth-justice-pizza/
http://www.tradereadingorder.com/dc-series/dc-all-ages/