It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time! Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the weekend’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. I’m sure there are many of you who are tired from the craziness of Black Friday! I was following it on Twitter under the hashtag #BFHI and hearing all kinds of wild stories about […]
Welcome to week 3 of the HBB Cookbook Countdown to New Year’s. This installment is a bit early but I figured everyone would be too busy cooking, eating and parade watching tomorrow. I’ll keep this post a short one since there’s so much to do before turkey time. This week I decided to pull a […]
It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time! Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the weekend’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. Book Crazy If you’ve been following my Book Ends the last few weeks, you know I’ve been touting the abundance of book signing events going on that weekend. Well, I should have kept my […]
A few weeks ago in one of my Friday Book Beginnings I wrote about a new novel, Tweakerville by Alexei Melnick. In my post I mentioned the unique narration; the harsh, almost unnerving attention to detail of drug culture; and an underlying theme that this book’s lawless Hawaii is almost visible beneath our noses: “if you knew […]
– Well it’s another week closer to the end of 2010 and I dunno about you but I am nowhere near prepared for the holidays. I feel like it’s still August and yet, here we are already on week two of HBB’s Cookbook Countdown to New Year! If you missed week 1, go back and […]
The thing about the holidays, or the entire months of November and December, is that the house is perpetually filled with yummy smells. Family gatherings and food are so much a part of the season, one undoubtedly finds oneself being lenient with their calorie restrictions and promising to work double hard in the new year. […]
This year we decided that HBB would participate in the Eco Libris Green Book Campaign. In an effort to encourage and support responsible “green” publishing, 200 bloggers will review 200 books on one day. All the books featured in the campaign are printed on recycled paper! None of our local publishers were participating in this […]