Karapu Lit: Te Karapu Pukapuka o te Tuaiwi Pakaru
Naples, Florida
I haere tētahi ahorangi reo Pākehā Wā-Wāhanga ki waho o te akomanga ki te kimi i tētahi rōpū hoa hei whakapuaki i tōna hiahia ki te tuhituhi.—ā, i whānau mai te Karapu Pukapuka o Crack Spine. Ko te rongo pai rawa atu? Kāore tetahi e whiwhi māka.
He ingoa pai rawa atu! Nō hea koe i whakaaro ai?
He rōpū wāhine mātou kei waenganui i te 60 ki te 75 tau te pakeke. He tohu te ingoa mō te kaipānui kua kaumātuatia, kua mātau. E whakaū ana i te whakaaro kia noho koi, kia mātau hoki—mō ngā huihuinga pāpori, ahurea, hītori—me "pakaru te tuaiwi" te tangata. Koinei te huarahi e mau tonu ai te hinengaro kia ora, kia aro hoki!
Nā te aha koe i tīmata ai.
Ko tā mātou kaiwhakaū, a Maryanne, he mahi wā-wāhanga hei ahorangi reo Ingarihi: ko te pānui me te tuhituhi tana tino hiahia. I te tau 2012 i hiahia ia ki te kohikohi i tētahi rōpū kaipānui hihiri, hiahia hoki—he hoa e whai wāhi ana ki tētahi pō pāpori, taunekeneke, ā, e noho māia ana ki te whakapuaki i ō rātou whakaaro.
Tokohia nga mema?
Tae noa mai ki tēnei wā, tekau mā waru mātou. He maha ā mātou hui e whakahaere ana i tētahi pō "mauria mai he hoa". He tāngata whenua o Florida mātou katoa, nō reira he mea nui kia whai hoa hou hei wāhanga o tō mātou "whānau" whānui.
Āe, kōrero mai ki a mātou tāu i pānui ai.
Anei te rārangi o ngā pukapuka hou:
Te Amerika Pai
Te Ora Matemate o Henrietta Lacks
Kei muri i te Ataahua mo ake tonu atu
Te Reo Puawai
Te manaaki ia Hakopa
Etana Mai
Nga Manu Kowhai
Ko Miss Dreamsville me te Collier
Te Rōpū Tuhituhi ā-Rohe
Te Wahine a te Aviator
Te Kaikorero
Inferno
Tereina pani
He rārangi pai rawa atu. He tino pai ki a koe?
Anei ngā kōrero a ngā mema mō ētahi o ā mātou pukapuka tino pai:
Te manaaki ia Hakopa a Te Ora Matekore a Henrietta Kei te Kore"He pai ki ahau te whakaaro ki tētahi mea mai i te tirohanga hauora, hinengaro rānei."
Ko Miss Dreamsville me te Collier Te Rōpū Tuhituhi ā-Rohe"I tū tēnei i te tau 1963, nō reira i uru atu ahau ki taua whakatipuranga."... "I whakaatu i ngā tirohanga whaiti ki ngā wāhine, ki ngā mangu me ngā takatāpui i taua wā, ehara i te mea i te Tonga anake engari puta noa i te motu."
Etana Mai, he pukapuka rongonui: "He pukapuka tino pai mō Hānuere nā te mea i whakanuia te makariri me te hukarere i tētahi tāone iti o Massachusetts me ngā whakataunga pōuri a ngā kiripuaki."
Te Kaikorero"I miharo ahau ki ngā whakamataku i pā ki te iwi Hūrai i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, ā, i tino pono ake ēnei nā te kōrero rerekē mō te vampire."
Nga Manu Kowhai"He reo rotarota ataahua hei whakaahua i te pakanga whakamataku i Irāki."..."I tino ako ahau i tētahi mea mō tētahi pukapuka kāore au i whiriwhiri i ahau ake."
Ā, me pēhea ngā pouri?
Te Wahine a te Aviator he mea whakapōuri tēnei nā te mea, ahakoa i tutuki i a Anne Morrow Lindberg te herekoretanga me te whakaoranga mai i tana tāne kaha rawa, ka puta ia hei wahine mangere e mau ana i roto i te mana me te ahua o te moni me te mana. Ko mātou, hei kaipānui, i aroha engari i riri hoki nā te mea kāore tana "whakapumautanga ki a ia anō" i puta wawe mai i roto i te pukapuka.
I "pōuri" anō hoki ngā mema ki Inferno nā te huri haere tonu o ngā wāhanga me ngā kōrero nui e ārahi ana ki te kaupapa o te pukapuka. Ngā kōrero: "He tuhinga kiriata tēnei, engari he uaua ki te pānui hei pukapuka."
Ko ēhea pukapuka i arahi ki ngā kōrero nui?
Ahakoa ngā ngoikoretanga o te hanganga me te reo, kua puta he kōrero nui i roto i ia pukapuka. Ko te kī ki te angitu ko te whakarato i ngā pātai ārahi mō ia pukapuka i te iti rawa 10 ngā rā i mua i te hui kōrero, me te whakatenatena i te tuhi i ngā whakaaro motuhake, i ngā kaupapa rānei.
He aha te tikanga o te "Whakapūmau i te Hononga"?
Ko tētahi o ngā tino take e angitu ai ā mātou kōrerorero karapu, nā te mea he wāhanga "Whakapūmau i te Hononga" kei roto i te kōrerorero pukapuka: ka tangohia e tō mātou kaiārahi tētahi kaupapa, tētahi whakaaro nui rānei mai i te pukapuka, ka tono ki te katoa kia "whakapūmau i te hononga" ki ō rātou ake oranga. Hei tauira, mai i Tereina pani, ko ā mātou tohutohu i pēnei: "Maua mai tētahi mea e whakaatu ana i tētahi kōrero nō tō mua, pērā i a Molly me tana hei whakapaipai me te kape o Jane Eyre, me Vivian me āna taonga i roto i te pouaka. Mēnā rānei, whakapuaki mai ki a mātou tētahi mea i mahue i a koe. Kia pai ki te whakapuaki i taua kōrero!" (Tirohia nga whakaahua.)
He mahi motuhake anō kei a koe?
Ko tō mātou tau tuatahi noa iho tēnei, engari tae noa mai ki tēnei wā kua whakanuia e mātou ngā hararei me tētahi tohu nui o te karapu—he tina Kirihimete me tō mātou pāti huritau tuatahi. I te marama o Hepetema i tū ai he "Meet and Greet" i tētahi wharekai. Hei whakamutunga ka tū mātou i ngā Whakataetae Pātai Pukapuka me te whakawhiwhi taonga.
Ā, me pēhea ngā ture o te karapu?
1) Pānuihia te pukapuka!
2) Puritia he pukapuka tuhi.
3) Tuhia ngā tuhipoka!
4) Pānuihia ngā arotake mai i te ipurangi.
5) Rangahauhia ētahi take hītori/tōrangapū/pāpori o te pukapuka (hei tauira: Mātakihia te hōtaka motuhake a PBS mō te Orphan Train Movement).
Hei whakamutunga, he aha tāu e hiahia ana kia mōhio ai ā mātou kaipānui mō te Crack Spine Book Club?
He rōpū mema kotahi, he kanapa, he hihiko, engari he kanorau te karapu! Nā te kanorau o ō rātou papamuri, ō rātou mahi, me ō rātou tirohanga, tae atu ki te aroha ki ngā kōrero pai, ki te kai me te waina, he mea ahurei te Karapu Pukapuka Crack Spine!