The #spbkchat Indonesian lit list

The chat this week was a little quiet, but still interesting with some great links and recs from new chatter, @Novroz - http://bokunosekai.wordpress.com/

On to the list :-)


Titles:
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Rainbow Troops




Authors:
Murakami
Kazuo Kshiguro
Amy Tan
Jung Chang



Links:
http://bokunosekai.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/indonesia-banget-0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y._B._Mangunwijaya
http://andrea-hirata.com/english/
http://bokunosekai.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/read-indonesian-short-stories-month/
http://rereadinglives.blogspot.com/2011/08/kitchen-by-lily-yulianti-farid.html
http://bokunosekai.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/indonesia-banget-13-id17/ (background history to Indonesian Independence Day)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y._B._Mangunwijaya
http://rereadinglives.blogspot.com/2010/08/road-to-heaven-by-abidah-el-khaliegy.html

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 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/

The #spbkchat list: Book Groups

Not a very long list this week. For the first hour or so, we mostly talked about book groups themselves. Whether we belong to any groups. What we like, or don't like, about them. And those of us in a book group shared our experiences. But then, of course, we did move on to books, those that we'd read for a book group, and some that we think would make for good book group discussions.
So, here's the list:

Books

Eat, Pray, Love
The Handmaid's Tale
The Kite Runner
The Jane Austen Book Club
Mao's Last Dancer
Water for Elephants
The Help
Lord of the Rings
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Shipping News
Suite Francaise
Kokoro
Tiger Mother
State of Wonder
Bel Canto
The Slap
Mister Pip
The Tao of Pooh
Never Let Me Go
When We Were Orphans
The Remains of the Day
An Artist of the Floating World
Still Missing
Never Knowing
The Sea

Authors

Annie Proulx
Natsume Soseki
Ann Patchett
Sheila Jeffreys
JR Ward
Chevy Stevens
Nick Hornby
Kazuo Ishiguro

Links

Why so few men join book groups (Booklist Online)
Goodreads
Tim's (@timjonesbooks) Book Group - Books we have read so far


Image source: Printable Book Club Templates

The #spbkchat biography/autobiography list

This week's chat was all about people's true stories - biographies, autobiographies and memoirs.


Your list:


Titles:
Holidays on Ice
Life of James K Baxter
Hachiko: A Dog's Tale
Persepolis
Heaven's Coast
Famous Builder
Ghostworld
Prick Up Your Ears
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Following Foo
The Last Lecture
a child called it
Always Looking Up
Eat, Pray, Love
Marley & Me
Bitter Fame
A Geisha's Journey
Wild Swans
Angela's Ashes
Anything Goes
I Am What I Am
Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother
Tears of the Desert
Halfway House
Borrowed Time
Becoming A Man
Last Watch of Night
Motion of Light on Water
Scar Tissue
Bright Shiny Morning
The Bride Stripped Bare
Wheel of Time (series)
The Praying Mantis
Patrick White
Rebecca West
Walk With Me
Vita and Harold: Portrait of a Marriage
Hitching Rides with Buddha
Siren
Kathleen and Frank
Christopher and His Kind
Lions and Shadows
A Million Little Pieces
Your Voice in My Head
Lunch In Paris
Almost French
Suite Francaise
Your Voice in my Head
Glass Castles
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Long Walk to Freedom
Rage to Live
The Hours
Affection
Under the Tuscan Sun
Mao's Last Dancer
Latitude
The Unforgiving Minute
Unbroken
Me

Authors:
David Sedaris
Laurie Notaro
Gervase Phinn
John Larkin
Frank McKay
Mark Doty
Paul Lisicky
Terry Zwigoff
Alison Bechdel
Anne Stevenson
B D Wong
Jung Chang
Frank McCourt
John Barrowman
Bryce Courtenay
Amy Chua
Paul Monette
Michael Jackson
Sheila Rowbotham
Walt Whitman
Murakami
Samuel Delaney
Lynley Hood
Anthony West
H G Wells
Jeremy Coney
David Marr
Victoria Glendining
Nikki Gemmell
Nigel Nicholson
Will Ferguson
Tara Moss
Christopher Isherwood
Virginia Woolf
Anh Do
Samuel Delaney
Dawn French
James Frey
Ishmael Beah
Sarah Turnbull
Emma Forrest
Jeanette Walls
J G Ballard
Malcolm X
John Waters
William Faulkner
Richard Nixon
Mary S. Lovell
Krissy Kneen
Dava Sobel
Harry Rickett
Arnold Zable
Sidney Poitier
Katherine Hepburn
Rob Lowe

Links:
http://www.inspringitisthedawn.com/2008/09/geishas-journey-my-life-as-kyoto.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_memoirs
http://marianne-elliott.com/writing/

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
http://catherine-haines.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/whichreadfirst.png

Myths and Folklore #spbkchat

Another lively discussion on Thursday discussing Mythology and Folklore. I have tried to divide the list up into different sections, but if I have anything in the wrong section I apologise!


Maori folklore

The Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey

Australian


Thunderwith by Libby Hathorn (Australian indigenous folklore)
Mulga Bill's Bicycle
Man From Snowy River (australian mythology)

Greek mythology

Ransom by David Malouf (Greek)
The Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner (Greek)
Percy Jackson series (Greek)
Troy by Adele Geras
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (Greek YA)
 Tina Folsom's A Touch of Greek 
Ursula Le Guin's Lavinia
Goddesses' series by Clea Hantman
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Philips.
Sherrilyn Kenyon (paranormal romance with Greek mythology basis)

Japanese

Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn (Japanese)
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Akinari Ueda (Japanese)


Arthurian

Helen Hollick's Arthur trilogy (Arthurian mythology)
Sir Gawain,
Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart,
TH White's Sword in the Stone
The Nargun and the Stars by Patricia Wrightson

Fairytale retelling

In Sleeping Beauty's Bed by Mitzi Szereto (fairytale retelling)
Ruth Manning-Sanders (retold folklore & fairytales. http://bit.ly/qxzqYU) 
Bettie Sharpe (romance, Fairytales retelling)
Beauty by Robin McKinley;
 Angela Carter (fairytale retelling)
Catherynne Valente (Orphan Tales)

Vampires

Bram Stoker's Dracula
Anne Rice (vampires)

Native American

 Patricia Briggs(Native American mythology)

House of Night (Native American mythology)

 Ilona Andrew's Kate Daniels  (Native American mythology)

Others

The Owl Service by Alan Garner
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Wagner's The Ring
Ye Gods! by Tom Holt
Djinn Rummy also by Tom Holt
Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Dream Hunters

The Mabinogion


Sheri Tepper.
Traci Harding's Mystique Trilogy
Le Guin, enjoyed her Orsinian Tales
THE DARK WIFE by @sarahdiemer
Eleanor Farjeon's The Little Bookroom


Terry Pratchett
Tanith Lee did dark Tales by Sisters Grimmer
Jules Watson's retelling of The Swan Maiden(Celtic)

The Secret History of Moscow" by @esedia (Russian)

Rosa And The Veil of Gold by Kim Wilkins (book 3), Autumn Castle (explores fae mythos) & bk 2 is Giants of the Frost
Nicholas Stuart Gray -  The Seventh Swan



Useful links:
Canongate Myth series - http://www.themyths.co.uk/

YA books drawing on mythology - http://www.readinasinglesitting.com/2010/06/23/list-young-adult-books-drawing-on-greek-mythology/

TV Tropes - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Bowdlerise/MythAndLegend

Kay's Librarything list - http://www.librarything.com/catalog/JKayJones

Next week: General chat!