In celebration of the holidays, Hawaii Book Blog would like to extend our gratitude to all of our wonderful readers and give away a couple of books in December to a few lucky people. The winner of our first holiday giveaway will receive a brand new copy of the fabulous book Waikīkī: Nine Walks Through […]
Our Book Blogger Holiday Swap! It’s the holidays and there’s so much to do! Alex and I are pretty excited about the next few weeks. We have some book give-aways scheduled as a thank you to our readers. In addition to the usual Christmas rush of activities, we’ll be reading and typing like crazy to […]
posted by A.Alba Another week and here’s the latest edition of Book End. There are a ton of great library and literary events happening this weekend so I highly recommend if you have time, go out and support our local literary scene by attending one of these fabulous events. We have a lot of great […]
posted by M.L. Sanico I hope everyone has had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! Having imbibed on various treats and now sufficiently out of my food induced coma, I thought it might be nice to talk a little bit about makahiki the Native Hawaiian equivalent of a harvest celebration not unlike Thanksgiving, Octoberfest or solstice. However, […]
Since starting our Hawaii State Public Library Challenge Tour, we have learned a great deal about our state library system. We’ve learned about how they categorize and display books, what kinds of programs and services are commonly and uniquely offered, which branches have special collections, and that children’s books are often the bread and butter […]
posted by A.Alba I hope everybody had a festive Thanksgiving and a rewarding Black Friday (if you’re into that sort of thing). Let’s hope you have the strength to get that leftovers-filled stomach up out of your chair in order to attend one of these great literary events. Support our local literary community! Saturday, November […]
posted by M.L. Sanico Cook book recommendations for the holiday party season! Office potlucks, family gatherings, barbecue at the beach with friends… you’re sure to find something for everyone in these books! If you’ve been to a local-style Thanksgiving celebration then you know exactly what I’m talking about. There’s no such thing as Thanksgiving “dinner”… […]
posted by A.Alba I am completely exhausted. What a whirlwind week it has been for us as we push forward to finishing our Library Tour. We visited three libraries this past week and are looking to write them up as soon as we can—as soon as we finish write ups for the libraries we visited […]
Libraries are often very busy on Saturdays and not all branches have the luxury of being open on a weekend, so we try to visit most locations during the week. One of the challenges we have in our Library Tour is traveling by car from the Honolulu Airport area (where we both work full-time) to each of the […]
Coming into this Library Tour Challenge we knew it wouldn’t be easy to accomplish, that there would be some bumps along the way, and that with Hawai’i’s libraries struggling we’d have to be flexible. We knew not all locations would be easy to visit, and that people might not have time to talk to us. […]
posted by A.Alba Another weekend, and another busy week finished! Don’t forget to continue donating to both the Hawai’i State Public Library and the Friends of the Library of Hawai’i. For the HSPL, you can donate money to the statewide system, or to your local library. One of the best ways of doing so is […]
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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