Book Loving Kiwis discussion

During the months of May and June we have two challenges running.

Challenge 1: Young Adult - this can be any young adult novel; old/new, NZ/world, first in a series...

Challenge 2: Around the World - please nominate a book from a country beginning with 'T'. As usual, I will post a list of these countries. The book can be set in the country or well-known to that country, or by an author from that country.

Nominations to be in by 15 April please.

Countries of the world beginning with T:
(Please let me know if I have forgotten any!)

Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tromelin Island
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu

A question about books with a historical setting for the country challenge... If I wanted to nominate a book set in, say, the Roman Republic, would that fit under the letter R, or under I (Rome being in modern day Italy...) And no, I don't have any specific book set in an ancient country starting with T, it's just a thought that occurred to me.

I think as long as you can justify it (as you just did), it can go in either I or R. I'm pretty cruisy about things like that :)

I'm going to have to do some searching for the T category too.

After a bit of searching, I came across this one for an Around the World nomination...

Turkey - The Bastard of Istanbul

And my Young Adult nomination...

A classic which I have yet to read - The Outsiders

I nominate Homecomingby Cynthia Voight. This would be for the Young Adult selection. It's a powerful story of young people surviving in weird circumstances. It's also the beginning of a series called "The Tillerman Saga" by this author. I think of it as the beginning of the series and yet there is one in the series which is actually a prequel. But somehow I still think this is the one to start with. Bullet is the prequel and it is very amazing too, but may not be so easy to find though.
It's not a NZ book but it said NZ/ World so I presumed that meant it didn't have to be. Was I wrong?

I'll nominate The Oracle of Stamboul for the around the world challenge - also Turkey

Still working on a YA nomination

One of my GR friends is in Turkey - I will ask her if she has any recommendations.

For YA can I nominate by Karen Healey. I've read her other book The Guardian of the Dead and it was great, really keen to give this one a go. She is a NZer.

For the YA section I'd like to nominate Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones

Darkpool wrote: "For the YA section I'd like to nominate Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones"

What a gorgeous cover!

heh, that's one of the reasons I was drawn to the book.

I nominate a book for Challenge 2: Young Adult. Book by debut NZ author, Hugh Brown
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569...
Catherine

Hi Catherine, can you check that link please? I get a book by a Japanese woman named CLAMP when I click it.

(ok, just put my super-sleuthing hat on...) Is this the book you mean? Reach

#13: I was all set to nominate Hugh Brown's Reach as I attended the book launch last Saturday. I'll probably read it this month though.
So my YA nomination will be Erebos by Ursula Poznanski.

For the 'T' book, Turkey and The Dervish House by Ian McDonald.

Darkpool wrote: "(ok, just put my super-sleuthing hat on...) Is this the book you mean? Reach"
Yes, it is. Sorry - don't know how Hugh became a Japanese woman called CLAMP as I cut and pasted! Thanks for putting the correct link up

I'd like to nominate Pillar of Salt.The story, based on the author’s life, of an impoverished Jewish boy of uneducated parents, a Tunisian mother, Tunisian-Italian father, journeying through a multicultural life in French Tunisia to mark his place in life to eventually graduate from a top French university.