LitClub: 'Yan Matan Booktini + Joey
San Jose, dake California 
WANNAN RUKUNIN YANA SHA A LITTAFAI KAMAR YANA SHA A MARTISU.... To, kada mu je can. Bari mu ce wannan ƙungiya ce mai "zafi". To mata, shin kuna ɗaukar littattafanku da zaitun ko kuma wani abu makamancin haka?
Bari mu ga sunanka. Wanene Joey?
Labari mai ban dariya. Ƙungiyarmu ta fara da dukkan mata, amma wani miji ya ci gaba da ƙoƙarin shiga.
[Yi kuskure? Ya yi tunanin ba za ka lura ba? —Edita]
Daga ƙarshe muka yarda muka bar shi ya zaɓi littafi. Quickie na James Patterson — kuma mun ji daɗinsa! Don haka yana shiga...amma sai lokacin da matarsa ba ta zo ba.
Kuma ɗayan ɓangaren sunan—"Booktini"?
Muna son littattafanmu—muna son karatu! Muna raba tattaunawa kan littattafai yayin cin abinci da abin sha. Sau ɗaya a wata shine "Lokacin 'Yan mata"—wani abu da duk muka cancanta.
Lokacin 'Yan mata ... Joey kuma?
Hakika. Joey ma.
Faɗa mana ɗan ƙarin bayani game da ƙungiyar ku.
Mun shafe shekaru 5 muna tare. Akwai mutane 20 da muka sani—amma yawanci muna samun 10 ko makamancin haka a kowane taro. Mu abokai ne, abokan abokai, 'yan'uwa mata da 'yan uwan juna.
Kuma ina kuke haɗuwa?
Lokaci-lokaci a gidaje, amma galibi a gidajen cin abinci. Duk muna aiki ne a matsayin uwaye, don haka yana da sauƙi sosai. Idan ka zaɓi littafin, za ka iya zaɓar gidan cin abinci. Mun yi Italiyanci, mashaya Tequila na Mexico, wuraren pizza, har ma da Hawaiian—tare da kiɗan Hawaii mai kyau kai tsaye.
Kana bayar da jarabawa a kowane taro?
Mu ma muna yi. Jarabawar ta bambanta—wasu suna da matuƙar wahala wasu kuma masu sauƙi ne. Mun fara ta ne don tabbatar da cewa kowa ya karanta littafin. Amma daga ƙarshe ya rikide ya zama wani abu don nishaɗi kawai. Duk wanda ya zaɓi littafin ya yi jarabawar. Kowannenmu yana ba ta dala ɗaya wata guda da ta gabata domin ta sayi kyauta ga wanda ya yi nasara.
Wadanne irin kyaututtuka?
Wani abu kamar gilashin martini da aka yi wa ado da mahaɗi [Martinis? Ha!... ka san hakan. —Edita] ...ko kwalban giya da gilashin giya mai kyau...ko kuma kofin Starbucks mai takardar shaida. A wannan jarabawar da ta gabata, wanda ya yi nasara ya sami kyandirori, masu riƙe kyandirori, da kuma littafin rubutu mai kyau don amfani da shi!
Faɗa mana abin da ka karanta a wannan shekarar da ta gabata.
Mai Kula da 'Yar'uwata
Tura (ko Mai Daraja)
tawul
Ya ƙaunata John
Sumbatar Wasannin Duniya (Sandi Khan Shelton)
Mafarkin
Angela Ashes
Ka ce kai ɗaya ne daga cikinsu
miyagun
Matar Matafiya ta Lokaci
Ƙungiyar Zamantakewar 'Yan Mata Masu Ƙarya (Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez)
Duba sake (hoto, a sama)
Wasikun Laraba
Shin akwai wanda aka fi so tsawon shekaru?
Kite Runner
Ruwa domin Giwaye
Barefoot
Akwai wata doka ta kulob?
Ƙungiyar tana da dokoki biyu kawai:
- Muna la'akari da kashe kuɗi, don haka ba ma zaɓar masu taurin kai.
- Wani lokaci jadawalin aiki yana da wahala, kuma yana da wuya a ɗauki littafi. Don haka babu matsala ko ka karanta littafin ko a'a. Mun fahimta—ka zo ko ta yaya.
Yaya game da ayyuka na musamman?
- Muna da dare na fim. Muna karanta littattafan—The Woman and My Sister's Keeper—sannan mu kalli fina-finan a rukuni (littattafan sun fi kyau).
- Don bikin Angela's Ashes, mun yi bikin "Merry St. Patricks Day" (don taronmu na Disamba). Mun ba da abincin Irish, kuma komai kore ne, har da sangria. A ƙarshe, don shiga gasar raffle—dole ne ku saka kore. (Ƙarin kyaututtuka....muna son kyaututtuka!)
- Mun yi kwanaki muna ɗanɗanon giya, da kuma dare na Bunco*.
- Muna shirin yin ɗanɗanon giya/wurin shakatawa na dare a Lodi.
Banda nishaɗi... kana kuma aiki da wata ƙungiyar agaji.
Eh. Muna yin aikin sa kai a Mafakar Marasa Gidaje ta San Jose a watan Disamba. A watan Agusta muna samar da kayan komawa makaranta ga Sashen Tallafawa Iyali na Mafakar.
* Ga waɗanda ba su saba da Bunco ba—wasan dawa ne da aka fara yi tun daga Birtaniya a shekarun 1700. Ya zo Amurka (musamman California) jim kaɗan kafin Yaƙin Basasa kuma kwanan nan ya sake samun shahara..
saman shafi