Saturday, March 30, 2013

The #spbkchat Russian classics list

This past week the chat was about Russian classics.

Coming up this Thursday, we're talking foodie fiction - should be tasty. :-)

On to the list!

Titles: 
The Simpsons
The Battleship Potemkin
Howl's Moving Castle
Baba Yaga
Petersburg
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Gulag Archipelago
The Seagull
The Cherry Orchard
The Last Station (film)
The Master + Margerita
Happiness is Possible
Maidenhair
The Light and the Dark
Notes from the Underground
Eugene Onegin
The Lady with the Dog
Pride and Prejudice
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
Lolita
Pale Fire

Authors:
Andrei  Bely
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Anton Chekov
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Vladimir Nabokov
Gary Shteyngart
Vladimir Sorokin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Aleksander Pushkin
Oleg Zaionchkovsky
Mikhail Shishkin
Jane Austen

Links:
http://tonysreadinglist.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/colours-of-chaos.html

Sunday, March 24, 2013

The #spbkchat Brontes chat list

This past Thursday, the Brontes were the topic of discussion.

This coming Thursday we turn our attention to Russian classics.

On to the list!

Titles:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Agnes Grey
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Vilette
Lady Chatterly's Lover
Sex and the City
Twilight
Jane Bites Back
Shirley
Wide Sargasso Sea
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Eyre Affair
Jane Slayre
Sense and Sensibility

Authors:
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anne Bronte
Stephenie Meyer
 Michael Thomas Ford
Jean Rhys
S A Erwin
Jasper Fforde
Byron
Keats
Shelley
Jane Austen

Links:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/reviews/2007-01-18-jane-eyre_x.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7_uNOTpG5Y
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism

Sunday, March 17, 2013

The #spbkchat general chat list

This past Thursday we had a general chat, and the spectre of losing Google Reader soon loomed large in a lot of chatters' minds.

This coming Thursday we're talking about The Brontes.

On to the list.



Titles:
Ever  After
Minority Council
Just One Day
The Anteater of Death
The Koala of Death
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Driving Her Crazy
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (web series)
Bitter Greens
Paper Towns
The Fault in Our Stars
The Wild Girl
Lincoln (film)

Authors:
Kim Harrison
Kate Griffin
Gayle Forman
Betty Webb
David Levithan
Amy Andrews
Kate Forsyth
John Green

Saturday, March 9, 2013

The #spbkchat International Women's Day chat list

This past Friday was International Women's Day, so that's what we celebrated for last week's chat.

This coming Thursday is a general chat.

On to the list!

Titles:
Harmless
Little Women
Sea Hearts
Tender Morsels
Good Wives
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Wild Swans
Desert of the Heart
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Anne of Green Gables (series)
Wolf (series)
Miss Marple (series)
Lord Peter Wimsey (series)
Rachel's Holiday
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Chaos Walking (series)
Wolf Hall
The Queen of the Damned
Blackwood Farm
The Witching Hour
Graffiti Moon

Authors:
Julienne van Loon
Louisa May Alcott
Margo Lanagan
Amy Tan
Jung Chang
Jane Rule
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Baroness Orczy
L M Montgomery
Jane Linksgold
Dorothy L Sayers
Agatha Christie
Marian Keyes
Patrick Ness
Sarah Waters
Diana Wynne Jones
Ursula Le Guin
Kij Johnson
Hilary McKay
Yoko Ogawa
Hiromi Kawakami
Hilary Mantel
Melina Marchetta
Anne Rice
J K Rowling
Caroline Overington
Shirley Marr
Margaret Mahy
Elizabeth Knox
Karen Healey
Cath Crowley
Megan Whalen Turner
Fleur Beale
Kate deGoldi

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Alcott