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Book End: Weekend of Oct. 24

by Alex on October 23, 2009
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posted by A.Alba

Another weekend is here!  They can never come soon enough.  Not much to talk about this week–we did visit two more libraries and are working on the write-ups for those and a couple more from the previous …

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Book End: Weekend of Oct. 17

by Alex on October 16, 2009
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Another hectic week has passed and we feel we are constantly busy, not only with blog-related events but also a number of other things.  It’s always difficult around the holidays to find the time for everything you want to do, …

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Book End: Weekend of Oct. 10

by Alex on October 9, 2009
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Well, another long work week is finally finished!  TGIF, right?  This week we introduced our latest contributor to Hawaii Book Blog, Dawn Sueoka.  She comes to us with a strong background in Library Science, creative writing, poetry and film.  Her …

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Book End: Weekend of Oct. 3rd

by Alex on October 2, 2009
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Hawaii Book Blog has returned from their sojourn in Las Vegas, the 9th Hawaiian Island, refreshed and ready to get back into Hawaii books and events!  The big news this week is that Hawaii is the winner of the First …

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Library Challenge Book Review: The Musubi Man chronicles

by Alex on September 30, 2009
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As a part of our Hawaii Public Library Challenge Tour, we ask each librarian for one book recommendation for us to read and review.  For Diane Masaki from Aiea Library, we talked about a number of books, but she …

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Book End – Weekend of Sep. 26

by Alex on September 25, 2009
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The big news for Hawaii Book Blog is that we will be on vacation for the next week!  We will be going to Las Vegas tonight for a much needed break from the daily grind.  Two red eyes going and …

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Library Tour: Kahuku Library

by Misty on September 21, 2009
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“Are we there yet?”… “no”…”are we there now?”…”no”…”we’ve gotta be close!”…”nope”.

That’s pretty much how the conversation went as we drove from town to Kahuku Public library last Tuesday night after work. Alex was driving per usual, and I was …

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BBAW: Goals

by Alex on September 18, 2009
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Hopefully this week you’ve been visiting a bunch of new book blogs and maybe noticing some things about them you’d like to try yourself. Or maybe you’ve just had some ideas for improvements to your blog you’d like to put

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Book End – Weekend of Sep. 19

by Alex on September 18, 2009
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posted by A.Alba

The big news this week is that Hawaii is #1 in the vote to win 50,000 books from First Book’s “What Book Got You Hooked?” campaign.  When we first tweeted about this in August, Hawaii was #46.  …

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Book Review: Night Fisher

by Alex on September 16, 2009
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I thought it would be nice to highlight a different medium of literature here at Hawaii Book Blog.  Comic books and graphic novels have slowly gained respect over the years in literary circles and mainstream media.  The format has blossomed …

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Review:Teen Wise

by Misty on September 15, 2009
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In her new book, Teen Wise, Celeste Gonsalves encourages parents to think about the world from the life experience point of view of their teenagers in order to help them improve communication and decision making skills.

The social scenarios …

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