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Book End: Weekend of March 26, 2010

by Alex on March 26, 2010
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Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the weekend’s literary and library events here in Hawaii.  It’s been a crazy month for Misty and I, but now that a lot of the big events we’ve  to are out of the way, we can finally say we will concentrate on finishing up a few things and […]

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Book End: Weekend of March 19, 2010

by Alex on March 19, 2010
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Wow, what a busy time we had the last week.  We arrived back from Japan on Tuesday of last week, had all kinds of personal and organizational commitments to attend and then worked hard on our annual Rec-Fest on Saturday.  It was a lot of fun, and we hope you enjoyed the reviews.  But the […]

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March Rec-Fest 2010 Wrap-Up

by Alex on March 14, 2010
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Alex: First off, I would like to thank everyone who helped to spread the word about this event through our social media circles.  Although we didn’t reach our lofty goals for RT’s or Facebook fans, we did get a lot of quality retweets from different people as well as a boost in the number of […]

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March Rec-Fest Book 6: Eha Ko’u Opu (My Opu Hurts)

by Misty on March 13, 2010
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Well we’re wrapping up our Rec-Fest and First Book-Oahu will be here until 4:00 pm… but remember, you can say “First Book” at any Barnes & Noble Hawaii ANYTIME this weekend to help them raise money to buy new books for children in the community. The last book review is one of my own picks. […]

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March Rec-Fest Book 4: Tuesday

by Misty on March 13, 2010
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So many books, so little time! It’s dangerous here for me and Alex, we could literally blow our entire months paycheck on books! This next review is on another award winning book. Although not from a Hawai’i author or publisher, it did come highly recommended by one of our island’s best literary professionals and book experts, […]

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March Rec-Fest Book 2: Where Are My Slippers

by Misty on March 13, 2010
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Story time has just begun and it’s my turn to blog a book review! I just finished singing “If You’re Happy and You Know It” with some First Book-Oahu volunteers, in front of about 30 kids! They’re all so adorable and happy. If you haven’t been to one of First Book-Oahu’s book fairs then you’re […]

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Book End: Weekend of March 12, 2010

by Alex on March 12, 2010
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For us, this is a big weekend here at Hawaii Book Blog.  Once again we will be having a keiki Rec-Fest, similar to the one we had in August 2009—also at a Barnes & Noble Kahala First Book-Oahu fundraising event.  Remember, for this entire weekend if you purchase anything at a Barnes & Noble bookstore […]

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HBB T-shirt GIVEAWAY & March Rec-Fest!

by Misty on March 11, 2010
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There’re only 2 DAYS left before our live Rec-Fest to support First Book-Oahu’s Bookfair and Fundraiser at Barnes & Noble Kahala Mall! We’d love to review keiki Hawaiiana books suggested by HBB readers but no one has suggested anything yet! And we’re getting closer to our goal of having 50 retweets to encourage people to spread the word […]

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Book Signing with Jerilyn Ito (3/6/10)

by Alex on March 1, 2010
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Date: Saturday, March 6 Time: 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm Where: Milano Freezer at the Manoa Marketplace Jerilyn Ito, the author of a new children’s book Finding Our ‘Ohana, will have her very first book signing event at the Milano Freezer at Manoa Marketplace.  Help support a new local author and while you’re at it, […]

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Book End: Weekend of February 26, 2010

by Alex on February 26, 2010
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The big news for us is that next week, Hawaii Book Blog will be on vacation (and as a result, hiatus) in the Land of the Rising Sun!  Misty and I will both be in Tokyo for our very first trip to Japan.  We’re both very excited!  In the meantime, this means there will not […]

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HBB Rec-Fest @ First Book-Oahu’s Book Fair!

by Misty on February 24, 2010
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HBB is volunteering to blog and tweet live book reviews from First Book-Oahu‘s Book Fair & Fundraiser! Last year the fundraiser was in August and HBB did 8 book reviews in 8 hours! We asked kids in the store and First Book Members to give us suggestions and we learned/reviewed some great keiki books! It […]

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