Karapu Lit: Ngā Kōtiro Booktini + Joey
San Jose, California 
E inu ana tēnei rōpū i roto i ngā tuhinga me te mea e inu ana rātou i tā rātou martini.... Āe, kaua e kōrero ki reira. Me kī noa he rōpū "hihiri" tēnei. Nō reira, e ngā wāhine, he pai ki a koutou ā koutou pukapuka, he rerekē rānei?
Kia tae tātou ki tō ingoa. Ko wai a Joey?
He kōrero whakakatakata. I tīmata tā mātou karapu me ngā wāhine katoa, engari i ngana tonu tētahi tāne ki te kuhu puku.
[I puku? I whakaaro ia kāore koe e kite? —Kaiwhakatika]
I te mutunga ka tukua e mātou kia whiriwhiri ia i tētahi pukapuka. I whiriwhiria e ia Te Tere nā James Patterson — ā, i tino aroha mātou ki tēnā! Nō reira kei roto ia...engari i te wā anake kāore tana wahine e tae mai.
Ā, ko tētahi atu wāhanga o te ingoa—"Booktini"?
He aroha nui tō mātou ki ā mātou pukapuka—he aroha nui tō mātou ki te pānui pukapuka! Ka kōrero tahi mātou mō ngā pukapuka i te wā kai me te inu. Kotahi te wā i te marama ko te "Wā Kōtiro"—he mea e tika ana kia whiwhi tātou katoa.
Te wā kōtiro . . . a Joey hoki?
Ae. Me Joey anō hoki.
Kōrero mai anō mō tō karapu.
E rima tau mātou e noho ana. E rua tekau mātou katoa—engari e tekau pea te nuinga o te wā ka tae mai ki ia hui. He hoa mātou, he hoa o ngā hoa, he tuahine, he whanaunga hoki.
Ā, kei hea kōrua e tūtaki ai?
I ētahi wā i ngā kāinga, engari ko te nuinga i ngā wharekai. He māmā mahi katoa mātou, nō reira he māmā ake. Ki te whiriwhiri koe i te pukapuka, ka taea e koe te whiriwhiri i te wharekai. Kua mahi mātou i ngā paera Itari, Mekihana Tequila, ngā wharekai pīta, tae noa ki Hawai'i—me ngā waiata ora Hawai'i pai rawa atu.
He pātaitai tāu e whakahaere ana i ia hui?
Ae, e pena ana mātou. He rerekē ngā pātaitai—ko ētahi he tino uaua, ko ētahi he māmā. I tīmata mātou kia pānuihia te pukapuka e te katoa. Engari i te mutunga ka huri hei mea whakangahau noa iho. Ko te tangata e whiriwhiri ana i te pukapuka ka whakaoti i te pātaitai. Ka hoatu e mātou he tāra ki a ia i te marama o mua kia taea ai e ia te hoko koha mō te toa.
He aha ngā momo koha?
He mea rite ki te karāhe martini whakapaipai me te mīhini whakaranu [Mātini? Hā!...i mōhio koe. —Kaiwhakatika] ...he pounamu waina rānei me te karāhe waina ataahua...he kapu Starbucks rānei me te tiwhikete. I tēnei pātaitai o mua, i whiwhi te toa i ngā rama, i ngā ipu rama, me tētahi pukatuhi ātaahua hei haere tahi me ia!
Kōrero mai ki a mātou i tāu i pānui ai i te tau kua hipa.
Te Kai-tiaki o toku Tuahine
Pana (Utu nui rānei)
Tuhinga o mua
E Hoani
Ngā Kēmu Kihi o te Ao (Sandi Khan Shelton)
Ko te Moemoea
Ngā pungarehu o Angela
Mea atu ko koe tētahi o rātou
kino
Te Wahine o te Kaihaerere Wā
Te Karapu Hapori o Ngā Kōtiro Parauri (Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez)
Titiro Ano (whakaahua, i runga ake nei)
Ngā Reta o te Wenerei
He aha ngā mea tino pai i roto i ngā tau?
Te Kite Whakawhiti
Water for Elephants
Tuhinga o mua
He ture karapu?
E rua noa iho ngā ture a te karapu:
- Ka whai whakaaro mātou ki ngā utu, nō reira kāore mātou e whiriwhiri i ngā pukapuka mārō.
- I ētahi wā ka pukumahi ngā kaupapa mahi, ā, he uaua ki te tiki pukapuka. Nō reira, kāore he aha mēnā ka pānuihia e koe te pukapuka, kāore rānei. E mārama ana mātou—haere mai.
Ā, me pēhea ngā mahi motuhake?
- He pō kiriata ā mātou. Ka pānui mātou i ngā pukapuka—Te Wahine me te Kaitiaki o taku Tuahine—kātahi ka mātaki ngātahi mātou i ngā kiriata (he pai ake ngā pukapuka).
- Mō Angela's Ashes, i whakanuia e mātou te "Merry St. Patrick's Day" (mō tā mātou hui i Hakihea). I mahi mātou i ngā kai Airani, ā, he kakariki ngā mea katoa, tae atu ki te sangria. Hei whakamutunga, hei whakauru atu ki te raffle—me mau koe i te kakariki. (He nui ake ngā taonga....he pai ki a mātou ngā taonga!)
- He maha ā mātou rā whakamātau waina, he maha hoki ā mātou pō Bunco*.
- Kei te whakamahere mātou i tētahi moe mō te pō i Lodi, he wāhi mirimiri/whakamātautau waina rānei.
Haunga te ngahau . . . ka mahi tahi anō koe me tētahi rōpū aroha.
Āe. He tūao mātou i te San Jose Homeless Shelter i te marama o Tīhema. I te marama o Ākuhata ka whakaratohia e mātou he taputapu hoki ki te kura mō te Wāhanga Tautoko Whānau o te whare tiaki.
* Mō te hunga kāore i te mōhio ki a Bunco—he kēmu mataono tēnei i ahu mai i Peretānia i ngā tau 1700. I tae mai ki ngā Whenua o Amerika (ko California te nuinga) i mua tata i te Pakanga Tūmatanui, ā, nō nā tata nei kua hoki mai te rongonui..
runga o te wharangi