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Karapu Lit:  Ngā Kaipupuri Harikoa o High Meadows
Roaring Gap, North Carolina

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I hono atu rātou ki ngā hononga, ā, inaianei kua honoa mā roto i ngā pukapuka. Kia tūtaki ki ngā High Meadows Happy Bookers o Roaring Gap, North Carolina.



Mai i te karapu korowha ki te karapu pukapuka (āe, he ngoikore rawa): he aha te mea i huri ai koe ki ngā pukapuka?
I te tīmatanga i te rapu noa mātou i tētahi mea hei mahi tahi i te takurua, engari ināianei he karapu mātou e tū ana i te tau katoa.

Kōrero mai ki a mātou i tāu i pānui ai i te tau kua hipa.
Anei te rārangi pukapuka mō tēnei tau:

Tahae Pukapuka
Kotiro Whare
Tama i roto i te Poti
Whero Whero
Ina hamama ngā raiona
Tangata Wheketere
Te Maramatanga Kare e kitea e tatou
Erihapeti te Kuini
Kaitiaki Huna
Ngā Inoi hei Hoko

He tino pai ki a koe ngā mea katoa?
I hea koe i haere ai, e Bernadette? nā Maria Semple—whai muri i te raupapa o ngā pukapuka pōuri o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao 11, i harikoa te katoa ki ngā mahi a te toa wahine.

Te Kī a Hara nā Tatiana de Rosnay—i tino pai ki a mātou te momo tuhituhi a te kaituhi.

Kotahi Mano Ngā Wahine Pākehā nā Jim Fergus—i miharo katoa mātou i te mea ka taea te hanga i tētahi pukapuka katoa i runga i tētahi rerenga kōrero kotahi nō tō tātou hītori.

Ā, me pēhea ngā kōrerorero tino pai?
Wild nā Cheryl Strayed—he ōrite te wehewehe o ō mātou whakaaro. I whakaaro ētahi kāore āna whakataunga i ahu mai i te ao tūturu, ko ētahi i whakaaro i kōrero pono ia mō tana takanga ki te poka hohonu, kātahi ka mōhio me mahi ia i tetahi mea i mua i tana taenga ki te wāhi kāore e taea te mawhiti.

Ā, me pēhea ngā pouri?
Ina hamama ngā raiona nā Thomas Maier—mō ngā Churchill me ngā Kennedy. I whakaaro te nuinga he nui rawa ngā kōrero, ā, kua mōhio kē tātou ki te nuinga. I tua atu, he maroke rawa te momo tuhituhi.

Me pēhea tāu whakahaere i tō karapu?
Ka tū he hui whakamahere i te marama o Tīhema ina tūtohu ngā mema i ngā pukapuka mō te tau e tū mai nei. Ki te tūtohu koe i tētahi pukapuka, me waiho hei pukapuka kua pānuihia e koe. Kātahi ka pōti mātou mō ngā pukapuka, ka tukuna atu he pānui ki te katoa kia taea ai e mātou te tīmata ki te pānui i ngā kōwhiringa.

Ko Hakihea anō hoki te wā e whakaritea ai ngā kāinga e hui ai tātou. Ko te tangata e manaaki ana i te hui ka ārahi i te kōrero pukapuka, arā, ko te rangahau i te kaituhi me te whakahiato i ngā pātai kōrero.

Kia mutu te wāhanga whakarite o te hui, ka pārekareka mātou ki tētahi tina waimarie—he kaupapa Kirihimete, koia rā!

He mahi motuhake ā te karapu?
Ko John Bassett te kaupapa o Tangata Wheketere nā Beth Macy, e noho ana i tō mātou rohe, nō reira i karangahia ai ia e mātou ki te tina me te kōrero mō tōna oranga me te pukapuka. E 60 ngā tāngata i tae mai! (Tirohia te whakaahua, tuatoru mai i runga.)

[I whawhai a Bassett, he kaihanga o te whakatupuranga tuatoru o te mea i mua ko te kaihanga taonga nui rawa atu o te ao, kia mau tonu ngā mahi wheketere ki te US, kaua ki ngā mahi kaipuke ki tāwāhi. —Ed.]

Nō reira, me pēhea e whakaahua ai koe i tō rōpū?
Kei High Meadows mātou e noho ana, he hapori korowha i ngā maunga o North Carolina. Ko te nuinga o mātou kua reti, kua pakeke ā mātou tamariki, ā, ko te nuinga o mātou kua uru atu ki ngā karapu pukapuka i mua i te neke mai ki konei—he mea tēnei i ārahi ki te whānuitanga o ā mātou momo pānui.