Saturday, September 29, 2012

The #spbkchat banned books chat list

A small housekeeping note before we begin:

New Zealand sprang forward for daylight savings last night, and the chat follows New Zealand time. So 10pm NZ time like always, but it'll be an hour later.

Er, if that makes sense. -.-

Next week we're talking about fantasy: sword and sorcery division.

On to the banned books list!

Titles:
1984
Lolita
American Psycho
In the Night Kitchen
50 Shades of Grey
Green Eggs and Ham
Brideshead Revisited
Frankenstein
The Lord of the Rings
Nancy Drew (series)
Moll Flanders
Twin Peaks (TV series)
IT
Chucky (horror movie series)
Catcher in the Rye
Rock Star
Black Beauty
Forever
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Howl
Harriet the Spy
Flowers in the Attic
Harry Potter (series)
Brave New World
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Color Purple
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey

Authors:
George Orwell
Vladimir Nabokov
Bret Easton Ellis
Maurice Sendak
Jackie Collins
Judy Blume
D H Lawrence
Allen Ginsberg
V C Andrews
Enid Blyton
Woodiwiss
James Joyce
Chris Crutcher

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/2000_2009
http://www.banned-books.org.uk/all
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/reasonsbanned
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments
http://www.chriscrutcher.com/censorship.html
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek


Saturday, September 15, 2012

The #spbkchat general chat list

I completely missed the chat - again - because I had a friend come around on Thursday night.

General chats always range far and wide, and I"m sorry I missed it.

Next week: Keeping track of your reads.

On to the list!



Titles:
Les Miserables
The Woman in White
The Great Gatsby
Great Expectations
Legally Blonde (movie/musical)
Mary Barton
Miss Saigon (musical)
Wives and Daughters
North and South
Anna Karenina
Cranford
Madame Butterfly
Lord Carew
Promise of Spring
Notorious Rake
Simply Love
Beauty and the Beast
A Rose in Winter
The Angel
Heartless
Shanna
Ashes in the Wind
Wolf and the Dove
A Matter of Class
Looking for Alibrandi
Married by Morning
Devil in Winter
Suddenly You
What I Did For  A Duke
Finnikin on a Rock
Wuthering Heights
Quintana of Charyn
Maisie Dobbs (series)
Fat Girls Bike
Thyla and Vulpi
Jane Eyre
Gregor Demarkian (series)
The Dinner
The Boy Who Made it Rain

Authors:
Jane Austen
Elizabeth Gaskell
Melina Marchetta
Lisa Kleypas
Julia Quinn
Mary Balogh
Elizabeth Hoyt
Jacqueline Winspear
Sue Ann Jaffarian
Kate Gordon
Nalini Singh
Jane Haddam
Brian Conaghan

Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEwogIdU4Pw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okha99tGvB4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1or1tmaa84
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1s9ubYbFvc
http://po.st/kGPJ4R
http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10292/1488/AndersonD.pdf?sequence=3

Sunday, September 9, 2012

The #spbkchat books read in one sitting list

Next week, we're all gathering for a general chat.

This past week, books read in one sitting was the topic of conversation.

On to the list :-)




Titles:
Diamond Brothers (series)
Jellicoe Road
Night Huntress (series)
In Death (series)
The Time Traveller's Wife
All He Ever Needed


Authors:
Melina Marchetta
Anthony Horowitz
Libba Bray
Jeaniene Frost
JD Robb
Jaci Burton
Mitch Kowalski

Links:
http://www.thereadventurer.com/1/post/2012/09/wall-of-books-a-metric-ton-of-short-ya-books-220-pages-or-less.html

Sunday, September 2, 2012

The #spbkchat poetry list

This week we talked all about poetry.

Next week it's all about books we read in one sitting.

On to the list:




Titles:
Love's Philosophy
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Chasing Brooklyn
The Second Coming
Norton's Anthology of Poetry
The Piper's Son
Wynkyn Blynkyn and Nod
W H Auden

Authors:
Percy Bysse Shelley
William Shakespeare
T S Eliot
Hone Tuwhare
Dante
Milton
John Donne
Matthew Arnold
Les Murray
Keats
Byron
Wordsworth
Sam Hunt
Steven Herrick
Lisa Schroeder
Seamus Heaney
Rumi

Links:
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nap/Poetry_Workshop.htm
http://www.stevenherrick.com.au/
http://honetuwhare.org.nz/more-poems/