The #spbkchat general chat list

This week was a general chat, which is always fun. For the next two weeks we're celebrating the dark side, with Gothic and Horror/Halloween the focus of the chat.

Let's get on to the list:

Titles:
The Passage
After Dark
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Kafka on the Shore
IQ84
After the Quake
The Hunger Games
Norwegian Wood
Hottest Dishes of Tartar Cuisine
Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Lola and the Boy Next Door
I, Coriander
Before I Go To Sleep
The Revisionists
The Leftovers
Summer Crossing
Alias Grace
The Shadow of the Wind
The Kitchen Boy
Rasputin's Daughter
The Winter Palace
Imperial Highness
Anonymums
Among Others

The Iliad
The Honourable Schoolboy
Fear (series)
The Sending
Hal Junior
I Am a Cat
Snuff
The Rose Garden
Annabel
Gone
Rules of Attraction
Chain Reaction
The Help
The Sending
Wicked

Business of Death
Language of Flowers
Lola's Secret
Debris
Letters of Tolkien



Authors:
Murakami (I've decided he's the unofficial #spbkchat mascot)
Sally Gardner
Margaret Atwood
Truman Capote
Robert Alexander
Cynthia Harrold-Eagles
Evelyn Anthony
Jo Walton
Isobelle Carmody
R L Stine
Soseki
Matthew Reilly
Jennifer Miller
Simone Elkes
Gregory Maguire
Monica McInerny
Joanne Anderton
Maria Snyder




Links:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
http://www.amazon.ca/Annabel-Kathleen-Winter/dp/0887842364
http://gabzillaz.deviantart.com/art/Stripper-Nightwing-254499653
http://girlsgonegeek.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/nightwing3.jpeg

The #spbkchat general chat list

Our periodic general chats always generate great discussions and I (randomly) name Harukai Murakami as The South Pacific Chat Author Of Every Week because no matter what topic the discussion is, Murakami slips in there somewhere. :-)

Right. On to the lists:


Titles:
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Help
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Game of Thrones
Pillars of the Earth
The Slap
Kafka on the Shore
Lord of the Rings
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Hobbit
Still Alice
IQ84
Kinglake 350
Safe From the Sea
Viewed Sideways
The Kitchen Daughter
A Complicated Kindness
The Flying Troutmans
Liar

A Visit From the Duchess
The Snowman

Ready Player One

Something Wrong

Sweep 3

Authors:
Stephen King
Christine Lovatt (crossword creator)
Murakami
Ken Follett
Carrie Ryan
Sarah Addison Allen
Peter Geye
Donald Richie
Jael McHenry
Justine Larbaleister
Jo Nesbo
Lisa Genova
Jasper Fforde
Cate Kiernan

Links:
http://spbkchat.blogspot.com/p/topics.html (updated list to the end of the year)

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

The #spbkchat general chat list

This week's #spbkchat was a general topic, free-for-all chat, and they're always interesting. The discussion seemed to focus on Jane Austen and re-reading, but there was definitely a lot going on!

On to the list:

Titles:
Harry Potter (series)
Game of Thrones
True Blood (TV series)
Rome (TV series)
Didius Falco (series)
The Dead Travel Fast
Coming Home
Anna Karenina
Guilty Pleasures
Matthew Bartholomew (series)
Amelia Peabody (series)
Saturday
The Shattering
Persuasion
Miles Vorkosigan (series)
The Fix
Sharing Knife (series)
Pink Carnation (series)
Ulysses
Everything Begins After
The Tiger's Wife
Very Bad Men
Dark and Hollow Places
Divine Misdemeanours
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Black Painted Fingernails
The Dark Enquiry
A Song of Ice and Fire (series)
Angry Management
Zombies vs Unicorns
The Lake
Iron Fey (series)
The Reading Streak
Luxe (series)
Sense & Sensibility
Persuasion
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Book of Tea
Girl in the Steel Corset
Rebecca
Northanger Abbey
Unsticky
Howards End
Malazan Empire (series)
Under the Banner of Heaven
Billie's Kiss
Daylight
Black Oxen
The Vintner's Luck
Emergency Sex and other desperate measures
Dreamhunter/Dreamquake (duology)
Wolf Hall
Lord of the Rings
The Dark is Rising
A Little Princess
100 Years of Solitude
Gavel
Caleb's Crossing
Ye Gods!
Faust Among Equals
Expected Someone Taller
Wish You Were Here
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Hawaiian Surfing: Traditions from the Past
Part-Time Indian
The Restaurant of Love Regained

Authors:
Lindsay Davies
Steven Saylor
Laurell K Hamilton
Ian MacEwan
Jane Austen
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nick Earl
Julia Spencer-Fleming
James Joyce
Simon Van Booy
Thomas Hardy
Shannon Stacey
A Lee Martinez
Steven Herrick
Deanna Raybourn
Chris Crutcher
Haruki Murakami
Gail Carriger
Julie Kagawa
Alice Ozma
Yasunari Kawabata
Natsume Soseki
Kady Cross
Yukio Mishima
Endo
Anthony Trollope
Jasper Fforde
Terry Pratchett
Tom Holt
Sarra Manning
Brontes
Dickens
Ian Wynne
Geraldine Brooks
John R.K. Clark
Sherman Alexi
Ito Ogawa

Links:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8623588/Chick-lit-doesnt-damage-its-readers-itjust-makes-them-raisetheir-standards.html
http://mel-xinyi.livejournal.com/49138.html
http://tonysreadinglist.blogspot.com/2011/07/tonys-month-of-rereading.html
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The #spbkchat general chat list

Thanks to everyone who stopped by, last night was another lively chat. It was a general chat so among other things we talked about what we're currently reading, books we're looking forward to, E-readers, and the eternal debate: E-books vs. paper books.
On to the list...


Titles

A Monster Calls
The Knife of Never Letting Go
The Master of Go - Kawabata
River Marked - Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson series)
Deadline - Mira Grant
Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
The Hunter - Tom Wood
Little Sister
Red Spikes - Margo Lanagan
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse series)
The Ottoman Motel - Christopher Currie
Succubus Blues - Richelle Meads
Kiss of Snow - Singh
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
Homeland Lost - Ale Liubinas
Lyrics Alley
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson
The Diary of Anne Frank
Crime and Punishment
Annabel - Kathleen Winter
The Memory of Love
The Hunger Games
Delirium
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
Tales for Canterbury (anthology)
Quakebook (anthology)
Phryne Fisher series - Kerry Greenwood
The Emerald Atlas - John Stephens
If I Stay - Gayle Forman
Where She Went
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Skinwalker - Faith Hunter
God of the Hive - Laurie King
Hungry for Your Love (anthology)
Scott Pilgrim comics
Bloodline
City of the Dead - Sara Gran
Angel Burn - L.A. Weatherly
Phoenix Rising - Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris
Original Sin - Beth McMullan
Hoopskirts, Union Blues, and Confederate Grays: Civil War Fashions from 1861 to 1865
Dreams of Joy - Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Peony in Love
Shanghai Girls


Authors

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Michael Thomas Ford
Robert Low
Alex Gray
Chris Crutcher
Alafair Burke
Mark Billingham
Claire DeWitt
Geraldine Brooks
Jodi Picoult


Links

#quakebook
Tales for Canterbury
ebooks vs. paper books (Eco-Libris)
It's a Book - Lane Smith (video)


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The #spbkchat general chat list

Titles:
Yousaf-bin-Tashfeen (NB: in Urdu)
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Piercing
Norwegian Wood
The Kite Runner
Audition
Hotel Iris
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Room
Out
69
Kokoro
Silence
Snakes and Earrings
Autofiction
The Baron in the Trees
Reindeer People
Delirium
Before I Fall
Remote Control
Audubon's Prayer
Never Let Me Go
Atonement
Disgrace
Game of Thrones
Water for Elephants
On Chesil Beach
The Bone People
The Rope of Man
Hand Me Down World
Face in the Water
Towards Another Summer
Tigana
Gifted

Authors:
Haruki Murakami
Yoko Ogawa
Emma Donohue
Ian McEwan
Kazuo Ishiguro
Hitomi Kanehara
Lauren Oliver
Ryu Murakami
Natsuo Kirino
Italo Calvino
Piers Vitebsky
Kotaro Isaka
Georgette Heyer
Coetzee
Sara Gruen
Janet Frame
Dostoevsky
Kelley Armstrong
Sheila Rowbatham
Linda Greenlaw
Patrick Evans
Witi Ihimaera

Links:
http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/?p=710