Legends, Traditions, and Tales of Nauru, Timothy Detudamo, 2008 (written in 1938)
- Nauru, #1
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read December 2016
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: literalists
Legends, Traditions, and Tales of Nauru
Australia and Oceania
Kiki: All These Changes
Kiki: Ten Thousand Years in a Lifetime, Albert Maori Kiki with Ulli Beier, 1968
- Papua New Guinea, #1
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read September 2016
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: self-starters in search of inspiration
Raetemaot: not everyone is a writer
Raetemaot: Creative Writing from Solomon Islands, Julian Maka’a, ed.
- Solomon Islands, #6
- Paperback, $20 from Alibris.com (I kind of can’t believe I paid $20 for this)
- Read September 2016
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: trainee editors after a rousing game of spot-the-professional-writer
Custom Stories from Choiseul
Custom Stories from Choiseul, various authors, 1995
- Solomon Islands, #6
- Skimmed on Google Books
- Read September 2016
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: incurable elaborators
Suremada: Another bewildering reading experience from the Solomon Islands
Suremada: Faces from a Solomon Island Village, Rexford Orotaloa, 1989
- Solomon Islands, #5
- $20, alibris.com
- Read August 2016
- Rating: 1.5/5
- Opening line: Anaibolafafawa was the village Big Man.
- Recommended for: Rambling internet commenters
The Alternative: Actually, let’s just stick with option A.
The Alternative, John Selwyn Saunana
- Solomon Islands, #4
- Borrowed from San Francisco State University, via SF public library
- Read September 2016
- Rating: 1.5/5
- Recommended for: petulant opportunists
The poetry of Jully Makini
Civilized Girl, Jully Makini, 1981
- Solomon Islands, #3
- Read September 2016
- Various internet sources (see below)
- Opening Line: Cheap perfume/ Six inch heels/ Skin-tight pants/ Civilized girl
Vanuatu: Substance without style
Black Stone, Grace Mera Molisa, 1983
The Story of the Eel, Elder Mark of Emil Potun, 2004
- Vanuatu, #2 & #3
- Black Stone: skimmed on Google Books; Story of the Eel: read online through JSTOR
- Read August, 2016
- Opening line (Black Stone): Ageless Vatu/ primeval source/ of creative forces/ ad infinitum
- Opening line (Story of the Eel): There was once an old man and an old woman.
Nights of Storytelling: Always pay attention to the subheading
Nights of Storytelling: A Cultural History of Kanaky-New Caledonia, Raylene Ramsay, ed., 2011
- New Caledonia, #4
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read: May 2016
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: students
The Kanak Apple Season
The Kanak Apple Season: Selected Short Fiction of Déwé Gorodé, Déwé Gorodé, translated and edited by Peter Brown, 2004
- New Caledonia, #3
- Borrowed from SF public library
- Read: February 2016
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Recommended for: studious rabble-rousers
Around the World in 2000 Books 