Vote for your favorites in our local literary scene via Honolulu Weekly’s 20th Annual Readers’ Poll! As the Weekly says in their article, it’s all the rage these days to run a “Best of” ballot. Every local magazine, and a number of websites and media agencies have all ran their own version of Honolulu or […]
It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time! Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the week’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. Ongoing: The Borders liquidation sale is still ongoing, with discounted prices up to 40% off. The last time we visited Borders Ward (on Wednesday), the majority of the Hawaiiana section was still intact, with the […]
News Release S.P. Grogan, the author of Captain Cooked: Hawaiian Mystery of Romance, Revenge… and Recipes!, will be returning to Hawaii for a special book signing tour from August 10 through August 15, 2011. This past May, Captain Cooked received a Ka Palapala Poʻokela award for Excellence in “Aloha from across the Sea.” You can read […]
If you’ve never been to one of the fantastic events at Native Books – Nā Mea Hawaiʻi, then auwē! You have no idea what you’re missing out on. A couple weeks ago, we went to the book launch of Hawaiian Surfing: Traditions from the Past by John R.K. Clark [read our review]. It was definitely […]
It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time! Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the week’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. A Giant Sleeps Probably the biggest literary news this past week has to do with the nationwide closing of Borders. 399 stores including six still left in Hawaii will be closing its doors within […]
[gn_quote]Surfing is Hawaiʻi’s gift to the world. Actually, board sports are Hawaiʻi’s gift to the world, so that includes surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, kite surfing, windsurfing—basically anything that’s done on a board, the concept came out of Hawaiʻi and went around the world. –Stuart Holmes Coleman, HBB Interview[/gn_quote] Between Isaiah Walker’s excellent Waves of Resistance [read our […]
A big MAHALO to everyone who sent us well wishes for Hawaii Book Blog’s third birthday! We took all of the comments we received, assigned them a number and went to random.org to select three winners. These three people will be receiving, as promised, a Hawaii Book Blog tote bag with three free books, three […]
It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time! Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the week’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. Now on to the events… Friday, July 15 Zumba Gold Demonstration – Ida Patykula, a local Zumba Gold instructor, will demonstrate this popular dance style aerobic exercise that has taken the world by storm. […]
News Release Former senator Fred Rohlfing will hold a presentation and discussion on past and current Hawai‘i politics within the context of his memoir, Island Son: The Life and Times of Hawai‘i’s Republican Reformer, at the Kaunoa Senior Center in Paia, Maui, on Wednesday, July 20, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Rohlfing will be joined by Island Son […]
A few weeks ago we heard about yet another unfortunate casualty of the book publishing industry. Readers like ourselves not only suffered with the loss of a number of bookstores in the area when Borders began closing down nationwide, but a number of authors felt the sting of loss due to distribution contracts that left […]
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