Canoe surfing, bullyboards banging everybody around Braddah Mel, Braddah Russ, Sistah Rell, Uncle Buff Everybody ripping, shredding, jamming on down to Makaha —Ka’au Crater Boys “Makaha” Recently, Misty and I travelled down to Makaha with her family to enjoy a peaceful day at the beach. It’s a truly wondrous drive along a beautiful stretch of coast, one that […]
Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you’re reading. If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the […]
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 Launch – Margaret Dilloway’s How to Be an American Housewife Last week Thursday we attended the book launch of Margaret Dilloway’s new novel at Barnes & Noble Ala Moana. It was great meeting […]
Bamboo Ridge has been giving voice to Hawaii writers and artists for a little over 30 years now. This remarkable literary arts journal and independent publisher is approaching its 100th issue and have two different calls for submissions. The Great Bamboo Ridge Short-Short Story Contest: The piece can be no more than 100 words long. The piece […]
Back-to-school blues got your kids down? How about a bento to lift their spirits! Bento making has really hit the mainstream over the last few years and there’re lots of websites and blogs dedicated to them with a handful of cute books that have been published. One of the best and most well-known is from […]
Alex and I have decided that one way to spread local literature to new audiences is to participate in national blog challenges and memes. During a heated debate about the importance of a book’s first paragraph we thought it might be fun to do “Book Beginnings on Friday”. Each week we’ll type out the […]
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. For those of you who like to read entertaining books about history, you may have heard of Sarah Vowell (The Wordy Shipmates, Assassination Vacation). Those of you who enjoy the movie The Incredibles might […]
I picked up this little gem by author Matthew Kaopio at the Annual Friends of the Library of Hawaii book sale at McKinley High School this year for only $1. It looked like a quick and simple read, so I thought in between my “assignment reading” I could polish off some recreational Hawaiiana. Much to my delight, Written […]
I am addicted to author blogs. All the big-wigs in publishing say that it’s not enough to simply author a novel anymore (as if that isn’t hard enough) but that writers have to market themselves and their books by creating a platform accessible to readers. You can tell a lot about an author from their blog…like Margaret Dilloway’s. […]
I love ETSY! If you’re unfamiliar with the site it’s basically an online community where you buy and sell handmade goods in virtual “shops”. Bewarned, ETSY is addicting and you’ll want everything, but it’s amazing to see the ingenious ways people create things. Here are a few local literary items I found on the site […]
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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