Karapu Lit: psPānuiAnō
Louisville, Kentucky
NGĀ MIHI KI a psReadMore, he rōpū kaipānui pono nō Louisville, Kentucky. Kua rima tau rātou e pānui ana, ā, kei te tatau tonu.
Nō hea tō ingoa? He mea rerekē.
I hokohoko pukapuka a Peri, tō mātou mema whakatū, i runga ipurangi, ā, i roto i tana paetukutuku ngā reta o tōna ingoa. I tana katinga i te pakihi, i koha ia i ngā pukapuka i toe, engari i puritia tonutia te paetukutuku. He ingoa tino pai mō tētahi karapu pukapuka.
Āe, he mea mohio: pērā i te psst...pānui tonu. Nō reira, e hia ngā mema?
Tokoiwa, tae atu ki tētahi i neke mai ki Florida. Kei te whakaaro mātou ki te hui ataata kia taea tonu e ia te whai wāhi atu ki ngā kōrero. Engari ko ia anake kei te kai tina!
Kei tō tau rima koe— he rawe tēnā.
Āe. I tīmata mātou me te haerenga ki te hainatanga pukapuka me te uiuinga ki a Elizabeth Gilbert. I hokona e mātou he kape kua hainatia o Kai, Tata, Aroha.
Nā, me kōrero tāua mō āu pukapuka. He aha ngā mea kua pānuihia e koe i te tau kua hipa?
Anei te rārangi o ā mātou pukapuka hou:
He whānui te wai*
Ngā Matakite mō ngā Paramu Huka
Rohi
Tūru Mermaid
Te Tamahine a te Kaitautoko
Kaiwhakaaro Pūtake Whakaroa
Roohu hotoke
Māmā Mataara
Pukapuka o nga ra
Ngā Kaiwawao
He hōtera kei te kokonga o Bitter...
* I pānuihia tēnei e mātou hei whakarite mō te hainatanga pukapuka a Pat Conroy mō Te Matenga o Santini.
Kōrero mai ki a mātou mō tō pūnaha whakatauranga.
Ka hoatu e ia mema he māka mō te pukapuka i pānuihia e mātou. Ka monohia ngā māka ki roto i tētahi ripanga tātaitai hei tatau i te māka toharite—mai i te A+ ki te F-.
Kua whiwhi tetahi pukapuka i te tohu A+?
Ina hoki, i roto i ngā pukapuka e 53 i pānuihia, e 4 anake i whiwhi i te māka A+: Ko te Āwhina ♦ He Mano Pai Rawa ♦ Ao kore mutunga ♦ Tuhinga o mua.
He toa koutou. Ā, me pēhea ngā hinganga?
Kotahi i whiwhi i te māka "koretake": ko tā Jonathan Miles Kia ora American Airlines. Ko te whakaahuatanga o te pukapuka e kī ana, "Ko te tono whakakatakata mō te whakahokinga moni ka huri hei tangi mō te oranga kua hē, mō ngā tau kua pahure, mō te maumauria o te taranata, me te ngaronga o te harikoa." Kāore tetahi o mātou i kite he whakakatakata... he whakangahau noa iho rānei.Āue! —Ed.]
He aha te āhua o ā koutou kōrero?
He pai tonu i ngā wā katoa, engari ko ngā kōrero tino whakamere ka puta i raro i ngā āhuatanga e rua:
- Ina tino aroha ētahi ki te pukapuka, ko ētahi kāoret. Mā ngā whakaaro rerekē ka ara ake ngā kanohi ki ētahi atu tirohanga—he aha i kore ai e pai, i kore ai rānei e pai; ahakoa pēhea, ka ara ake he kōrero pai.
- Ina pānui tātou i ngā kōrero tuku ihoKa taea e tātou te whakaaro i te ao i tōna āhua i te wā me te wāhi o te kōrero. He mea whakamere ki a tātou, he mea pouri i ētahi wā—he mea whakahihiri hoki i ētahi wā—te whakataurite i ō tātou oranga me ō tātou wā ki ētahi atu wā. Ko te āhua o te manaakitanga i ngā wāhine, i ētahi whenua rānei e mau tonu ana te manaakitanga, te āhua nei ka whakaoho i ngā kōrero whakamere.
Me pēhea tāu whiriwhiri i ō pukapuka?
I te wā e rima noa iho ngā mema, i pōti noa mātou, engari i te tipu haere o te rōpū, he nui rawa ngā whakaaro mō te pōti. Ināianei ka tukuna e mātou ā mātou whakaaro ki roto i te "peihana pukapuka" (he peihana tūturu), ā, mā tētahi mema e tuhi te pukapuka mō te hui e whai ake nei.
He ture?
E rua noa iho: pānuihia te pukapuka...kāore he tāne! (I ētahi wā ka whakaaetia e mātou te tāne kia hanga he pereti māna—mēnā ka haria e ia ki tētahi atu rūma.)
Ngā mahi motuhake?
Kua karangatia e mātou ētahi kaituhi tokorua ki ā mātou hui—ko James Markett (I pupuhi te hau mā) me Teddi Robinson (Ngā Kaiwawao(Kua mātaki mātou i ngā kiriata i ahu mai i ā mātou pukapuka, ā, kua tae atu hoki ki ngā hainatanga/uiui a ngā kaituhi. I whai wāhi anō hoki mātou ki tētahi hui whakatā ko "Ngā Wahine e Inoi ana," kāore i te tino pā ki ngā pukapuka, engari ko te hihiri o tā mātou mahi tahi i tino pai mō te whakatūnga o tētahi hui whakatā inoi.
Kotahi te pātai whakamutunga—me pēhea e whakaahua ai koe i tō karapu?
He rōpū wāhine mātou e hiahia ana ki te pānui, ki te ako me te whakawhitiwhiti kōrero. E hia ngā tāngata e haere tahi ana ki te mātaki kiriata, ā, i te mutunga, kāore e neke atu i te "I pai koe ki tēnei?" me te "Āe, he kiriata pai." E pai ana ki ō mātou mema te mōhio ki ngā kiripuaki o te pukapuka, te hono atu ki a rātou, kātahi ka whakawhitiwhiti whakaaro. He hiahia tō tātou katoa ki te ako, ā, he kaiako whakamiharo te pānui. [Āmene ki tēnā! —Te Ed.]