Karapu Lit: Whare Pukapuka ā-Iwi o Ngā Hoa o East Meadow
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NGĀ HOA PĒNEI...āe, me tino waimarie ngā whare pukapuka katoa. Ko rātou te Ngā Hoa o te Whare Pukapuka ā-Iwi o East Meadow. Ka whakapau kaha tēnei rōpū o Long Island (NY) ki te whakaoho i te ngangau me te harikoa i roto i tā rātou whare pukapuka o te rohe.
Ehara i te mea he karapu pukapuka noa iho koe. Ka taea e koe te whakamārama mai?
He "Hoa" mātou nō tō mātou whare pukapuka ā-rohe—he rōpū e kitea whānuitia ana i roto i ngā whare pukapuka maha huri noa i te motu. Ka āwhina mātou ki te whakawhanake i ngā kaupapa, ka kohi moni me te whakamōhio i roto i tō mātou hapori.
Kua whakatūria e mātou ētahi rōpū matua e rua—"Te Karapu Pukapuka Ngāro a Ngā Hoa" me tētahi atu rōpū e kīia nei ko "He Ahiahi me Ngā Hoa".
Kotahi tau te pakeke o te rōpū. Ko tā rātou kaupapa he tautoko i ngā whakaaturanga kaituhi—mō ngā pakeke me ngā tamariki—ā, kua tino angitu ngā kaupapa.
He tino kaha tāu mahi ki te whakatairanga i a rātou. He rawe ngā whakaahua.
Ae, he pai ki a mātou te waihanga i ngā whakaaturanga e kukume ana i te kanohi, e rite ana ki te tangata. Ā, i te pō o ngā pānui pukapuka, ka tukuna e mātou he kai, he monamona rānei, he kēmu, me ngā koha pukapuka.
He waimarie nō tātou kei a tātou tētahi whare pukapuka me tētahi kaiwhakahaere hōtaka e āhei ai tātou ki te whakaaro i tua atu i te pouaka.
Homai ētahi tauira.
♦ Āe, mō Erika Swyler Te Pukapuka o te Whakaaroaro, i whakarite mātou i tētahi karaniwha, tae atu ki ngā kēmu me tētahi tohunga makutu.
♦ I manaaki mātou i tētahi hakari Hainamana mā Henry Chang Moni Mate.
♦ Mō Christopher Bollen Hahaké, i tautoko mātou i tētahi hui whakanui kotinga mō Long Island.
♦ I mahi mātou i te waina—te tapanga "19 Crimes"—mō Jenny Milchman's I te hinganga o te pō, a ...
♦ I hanga e mātou he "tohu matimati" monamona mā Terrence McCauley's Te aroha ki te Rewera.
Kōrero mai mō tō Karapu Pukapuka Ngāro. He aha ngā mea kua pānuihia e koe i ēnei rā?
Āe, hei tāpiri atu ki ngā pukapuka e rima kua whakahuatia ake nei—nō rātou ngā kaituhi i toro atu ki tō mātou whare pukapuka—i roto hoki i tā mātou rārangi pānui mō te tau kua hipa... ♦ Te Kōtiro e Tatari Ana me te Pū nā Amy Stewart ♦ Te Naita a te Rāpi nā Michael J. Cooper. (I kōrero tahi mātou ki ngā kaituhi mō aua pukapuka e rua i runga i te Skype) ♦ Rere atu koe ki raro nā Julia Dahl.
He aha ngā mea tino pai i roto i ngā tau?
I aroha matou Nga Maama nā Richard Price nā te whakaahua taipitopito o ngā tikanga pirihimana i NYC.
I pai hoki mātou ki Moriarty nā Anthony Horowitz. Ahakoa i tuhia i te tau 2014, he rite tonu ki tētahi Sherlock Holmes rongonui nāna i mahi.
Big Little Lies He mea whakamiharo te pukapuka nā Liane Moriarty mō tōna reo kōrero, he tino katakata engari i te wa ano e pā ana ki ngā kaupapa nui me te whakamate - te tukino i te whānau me te kohuru.
Ā, me pēhea rā ngā pouri i roto i ngā tau kua pahure ake nei.
Ka tae te mate ki a Pemberley nā PD James, he pūrākau pakiwaitara nō Jane Austen. Ki a mātou, i rite ki te mea he mea hanga noa iho, ā, kāore i te kanapa ngā kiripuaki o te pukapuka taketake a Austen.
I te nuinga o te wā, me pēhea e whakaahua ai koe i te Karapu Pukapuka Ngāro a ngā Hoa me te Pō me ngā Hoa?
E rua ngā mea e pā ana ki te mema me ngā mahi. He kohinga tāngata rerekē katoa mātou. Kei waenganui i te 18 ki te 90+ tau te pakeke o mātou, ā, nō ngā momo āhua rerekē o te ao mātou. He kaimahi hapori kua reti, he pirihimana, he kaitiaki pukapuka kua reti, he kaihoko inihua, he kaihoko haereere me he tohunga mate. He ranunga whakamīharo tēnei o ngā tāngata me ngā whakaaro, engari kotahi te kaupapa e whakatapua ana mātou katoa—te tautoko i tā mātou Whare Pukapuka ā-Iwi o East Meadow.