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 dark fantasy list

The chat went to the dark side last night, discussing dark fantasy. My internet failed after about half an hour so I couldn't really join in but I'm sure it was a great chat.

Once again, thanks Margo Lanagan for dropping by - I LOVE seeing writers in the stream!

Next week is an open forum where (nearly) anything goes. :-) The two weeks after that, as it's October, we're going for ... a theme, with Gothic, followed by Horror/Halloween ...


The list:
Titles:
Bitter Blue
Sunshine
Magic Study
Wicked Lovely
True Blood
The Elder Races (series)
The Eternal Kiss
Dragonlance (series)
Twilight
American Gods
Coraline
Wildflower Hill
Europa Suite
How to Make Friends With Demons (aka Memoirs of a Master Forger)
The Graveyard Book
Lord of the Rings
Fragile Things
Forgotten Realms
Earthsea (series)
Warhammer (series)
Soul Screamer (series)
My Stepmother is a Werewolf
The Burning City
Cloud and Ashes
The Sparrow
Tender Morsels
Goosle
Catastrophic Disruption of the Head
Shadowfae (series)
Guild Hunter (series)
Ravenloft
Twelve Planets
Black Dagger Brotherhood (series)
Belgariad (series)
Graceling (series)
Black Jewels (series)
Dark Tower (series)
The Good Neighbours
Courtney Crumrin
Fever (series)
The Silver Kiss
Jonathon Strange & Mister Norrell

Authors:
Kristen Cashore
Sara Douglass
Thea Harrison
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
HP Lovecraft
Charlaine Harris
Clive Barker
G Masterton
Peter Straub
Elizabeth Bear
Kate Morton
Dan Abnett
Sherri S Tepper
Susanna Kearsley
Margo Lanagan
Kim Wilkins
Patricia Briggs
Anita Blake
Keri Arthur
Lilith St Crow
Carrie Vaughn
Kim Wilkins
Anne Bishop
Jaqueline Carey
Kim Harrison
Graham Joyce
Holly Black
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Christopher Pike
Rachel Vincent
Larry Vincent
Greer Gilman
Erica Hayes
Nalini Singh
Lynn Veihl
Madigan Mine
J R Ward
Raymond Feist
Anne Rice
J V Jones
David Eddings
Brent Weeks
Kristin Cashore
Stephen King
Karen Marie Morning
Anette Curtis Klause


Links:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkFantasy
http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2009/07/19/dark-fantasy/
http://spbkchat.blogspot.com/2011/05/spbkchat-romance-list.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fantasy

The #spbkchat poetry list

Poetry turned out to be a fun discussion! Next week is Dark Fantasy :-) (NB: I know people got confused by the earlier start yesterday. I forgot to mention in previous tweets that New Zealand had gone through Daylight Savings, and because we're the awkward loner-child with the most advanced time zone, #spbkchat follows that. I'm really sorry everyone, and will be sure to tweet reminders for next week.)

Titles:
I Love You
Vampire Knight (manga)
Blood+ (manga)
Witchblade
Teen Titans
Asterix
TinTin
Watchmen
The Monkey's Mask
The Realm of Possibility
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Not Waving But Drowning
Tales for Canterbury
The Cinnamon Peeler
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Rocky Shore
I'm Nobody
Guarding the Flame



Authors:
Steven  Herricks
Mirsiotissa
Mark Doty
Ursula LeGuin
Kay Cooke
Bub Bridger
Janis Freegard
Tim Jones
Mark Pirie
Jenny Bornholt
David Leviathan
Rap Raplinger
Stevie Smith
William Blake
ee cummings
Ania Walwicz
Wendy Cope
Alan Ginsberg
Walt Whitman
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
Ruth Dallas
Bill Manhire
Helen Rickerby
Kay McKenzie Cook
Sylvia Plath
Dorothy Parker
Anna Akhmatova
Esenin
Mandelstam
Tusiata Avia
Laurie Edmond
Glenn Colquhoun
Hone Tuwhare
Anna Couani
Anna Wawilcz
Michael Ondaatje
Anne Michaels
Margaret Atwood
Catallus
Mtuso Basho
John Donne
Emily Dickinson
Jim Morrison
Majella Cullinane





Links:
http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=341x11661
http://twitter.com/#!/Novroz/status/119358545857757184
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/literaryminded/2009/07/16/how-to-eat-a-wolf-by-sharanya-manivannan-a-poem/
www.goodreads.com
http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/62257.Bash_
http://bookthingo.com.au/close-reading-by-alexis-harley/

The #spbkchat humour/comedy list

(Because meerkats are inherently funny and I love them, that's why)

Sorry for the delay but I was falling-over-tired last night.

The humour/comedy chat was a great one, so let's get to the list. :D

Titles:
Duck in the Truck
Chimp and Zee
Nog and the Land of Noses
Josephine Loves to Dance
Crazy Hair
The Day I Swapped My Dad For a Goldfish
Little White Dogs Can't Jump
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Grossology (series)
Horrible Histories (series)
Sir Laughalot
Gordon's Got a Snookie
Go the F*ck to Sleep
Matthew ABC
Mr Pusskins
Red Hat Blue Hat
Mr Chicken Goes to Paris
The Monster at the End of This Book
The Switch
I Am a Cat
Botchan
Kusamakura
Queen Victoria Demon Slayer
Disco Boy
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Going Bovine
Beauty Queens
Stephanie Plum (series)
The Belgariad (series)
Discworld (series)
Bridget Jones' Diary
The Eyre Affair
The Princess Bride
Domestic Violets
Hagemaru
One Piece
Mad Magazine
Shadow's Kin
Ranma
Ninjaboy
Xanth (series)
Arrested Development
Something Rotten
Alphabet Series
Yes Minister
Royal Spyness (series)
Whiskey Galore
Rockets Galore
Doctor in the House (series)
Monty Python
The Gun Seller


Authors:
A Lee Martinez
Donna Andrews
Jennifer Crusie
Bruce Whatley
Neil Gaiman
Mo Willems
Nick Sharratt
Andrew Daddo
Dave Hackett
Michael Lawrence
Philip Ardagh
Eoin Colfer
Roald Dahl
Tony Mitton
Shanahan Harris
Mark Catalonatto
Sam Lloyd
Sandra Boynton
Katie McAllister
William McInnes
Tony Martin
Bill Oddie
Morris Gleitzman
Lynsay Sands
Paul Jennings
Michael Palin
Natsume Soseki
Ahn Do
Tom Holt
Jill Shalvis
Cathie Linz
Dom Knight
Piers Anthony
Libby Bray
Melanie La'Brooy
Janet Evanovich
Mr Sir Terry Pratchett
William Goldman
Matthew Norman
M J Scott
Don Martin
Dave Berg
Duck Edwing
Piers Anthony
Sue Grafton
Tom Cho
Mark Leyner
Woody Allen
Douglas Adams
Rhys Bowen
Dave Sedaris
Gervais Finn
Compton Mackenzie
Richard Gordon
Hugh Laurie

Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JVK0-4HQTY&feature=related
http://bokunosekai.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/rankudai-ninja-rantaro/
Cracked.com
http://timjonesbooks.blogspot.com/2010/05/interview-with-d-j-connell.html

The #spbkchat Malaysian lit list

We chatted about Malaysian literature last night. It was a bit quiet, and once again showed the large international gap in my own reading, but it was great to see another author pop up in the stream, and I'd like to welcome Joyce Chng (@jolantru) to #spbkchat - thanks for joining in!

The list:

Titles:
Handpicked
The Causarina Tree
Twilight
Harry Potter (series)
A Town Like Alice
Evening is the Whole Day
The Rice Mother

Authors:
Siew Siang Tay
Somerset Maugham
Neville Shute
Graham Greene
Suzanne Brockman
Glenda Larke
Rani Manicka

Links:
http://timjonesbooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/south-pacific-and-asia-book-chat.html
http://rereadinglives.blogspot.com/2010/09/angry-by-catalina-rembuyan-malaysian.html
http://rereadinglives.blogspot.com/2010/09/stalker-within-by-sabrina-abu-baker.html
http://rereadinglives.blogspot.com/2010/09/stalker-within-by-sabrina-abu-baker.html
http://whichbook.net/#age=&gender=&plot=&race=&sex=&setting=157&cmd=search&search-type=2
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/03/guest-post-joyce-chng-aka-j-damask-on-urban-fantasy-in-singapore/
http://goodbooksguide.blogspot.com/2010/07/awang-gonengs-map-of-terengganu.html
http://goodbooksguide.blogspot.com/2010/09/connecting-through-words.html
http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/book-launch-malaysian-tales-retold-and-remixed-edited-by-daphne-lee/

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 urban fantasy discussion list

The chat was all about urban fantasy this week.

On to the lists:

Titles:
Harry Potter (series)
Witches
Matilda
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Void Series
Anita Blake (series)
Strange Angel (series)
Coraline
Graveminder
Riley Jensen (series)
Poison Kissed
The Mortal Instruments (series)
Ghormenghast
Rachel Morgan (series)
The Lantern
Phoenix Rising
Tout Sweet
Die For Me
Fallen
Evernight
X-Men
The Wolves of Mercy Falls
Twilight
The Magic Faraway Tree
Crave (series)
Unholy Ghosts (series)
Spellbound
Sprawl
The Fallen Blade
Johanthon Strange & Mr Norrell
Mercy (series)
Shiver
White Cat/Red Glove (series)
Widdershins
The Paris Wife
The Dresden Files (series)


Authors:
Murakami
Roald Dahl
Carrie Vaughn
Rob Thurman
Ilona Andrews
Karen Chance
Suzanne McLeod
Jim Butcher
Ray Bradbury
Charles de Lint
J F Lewis
Laurell K Hamilton
Lilith St Crow
Neil Gaiman
Paul Auster
Melissa Marr
Erica Hayes
Keri Arthur
Mervyn Peake
Kim Harrison
Deborah Lawrenson
Gail Carriger
Pip Balyintine
Trent Jamieson
Tracey O'Hara
Syrie James
Amy Plum
Patricia Briggs
Lauren Kate
Gabrielle Wang
Rick Riordan
J R Ward
Stacia Kane
John Courtenay Grimwood
Terry Pratchett
Kelley Armstrong
Holly Black

Links:
http://www.fangtastic.com.au/books/index.php?searchStr=erica+hayes&act=viewCat&Submit=Go
http://opheliasfiction.wordpress.com/indigo/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_fantasy