Chamorro Legends on the Island of Guam, Mavis Warner van Peenen, 2008
Chamorro Legends on the Island of Guam: Stay in your lane, Mavis
Author: Kelly Dunagan
My Urohs (brings all the boys to the yard)
My Urohs, Emelihter Kihleng, 2008
- Federated States of Micronesia, #2
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read January 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: Serious young moralists
What I’m Reading Now
According to Goodreads I have six books on the go right now. It was seven yesterday but last night I finally polished off the thoroughly mediocre Cuentos Filipinos that I’ve had from the library for six weeks so far (pro tip: if you’re thinking of producing a collection of short stories as a pretext for an extended geography lesson, please think again).
I have two days left to read these books
The Book of Luelen: The thought collector
The Book of Luelen, Luelen Bernart, 1977 (written in 1934-46)
- Federated States of Micronesia, #1
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read January 2017
- Rating: 2/5 (BUT: this rating reflects only my reading enjoyment and is not a reflection of the inherent quality of the book. The reason for this distinction will become clear further on)
- Recommended for: ethnobotanical historians and sociocultural anthropologists
Annotations to the Book of Luelen, John L. Fisher, Saul H. Reisenberg, Marjorie G. Whiting (eds.), 1978
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read January 2017
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: as above, only more so
A Pattern of Islands: Pretty fly for a white guy
A Pattern of Islands, Arthur Grimble, 1952
- Kiribati, #1
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read November 2016
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: colonial apologists
Which Way, Big Man?: Exit stage left (before we fall asleep)
Which Way, Big Man and five other plays, Nora Vagi Brash, 1996
- Papua New Guinea, #8
- Paperback, $2, Amazon.com
- Read November 2016
- Rating 2/5
- Recommended for: earnest but unskilled dramaturges
The Incomparable Ulli Beier
Words of Paradise: Poetry of Papua New Guinea, ed. Ulli Beier, 1972
- Papua New Guinea, #3
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read October 2016
- Rating: 3.5/5
When the Moon Was Big, and Other Legends from New Guinea, ed. Ulli Beier, 1972
- Papua New Guinea, #4
- $6.00, Amazon.com
- Read October 2016
- Rating: 3.5/5
Voices of Independence: New Black Writing from Papua New Guinea, ed. Ulli Beier, 1980
- Papua New Guinea, #6
- Borrowed from SFSU library, via SF library
- Read October 2016
- Rating: 3/5
Excerpt: Nights of Storytelling
I meant to include this sentence in my blog post on Nights of Storytelling, but I forgot. And I like it too much not to share it with you.
When the chief of the Koné goes to check for food caught in the line of traps he has set the previous day, he discovers that he has snared an extremely angry lizard who demands to be released.
-Raylene Ramsay, ed.
Nights of Storytelling: A Cultural History of Kanaky-New Caledonia
The Crocodile: Let’s not accept that history is written by the victors, especially when “victors” means former colonial powers who prefer not to acknowledge the abuses perpetrated under their regimes
The Crocodile, Vincent Eri, 1970
- Papua New Guinea, #2
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read September 2016
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Recommended for: colonial powers ripe for toppling
Around the World in 2000 Books 