Last week, HBB was featured (sort of) on the local lifestyle website Lei Chic. They’d asked for our help in compiling a list of the top five current local books we’d recommend for summer reading. This was a tough question for us, we could have easily given them five picks each in fiction, non-fiction and keiki […]
The 2011 Ka Palapala Poʻokela Awards gala is coming soon (Friday, May 6) and to generate excitement for the event as well as educate the public on the nominees, I am doing a countdown, quickly highlighting the books nominated for each awards category. Where applicable, I will link to book reviews from Hawaiʻi Book Blog. […]
Wow. That’s the exclamation I gave after reading the first two chapters of Anshū at the book store. Misty was there with me, and she told me she felt the same way when she read the beginning a few days prior. We began to debate on who would review this fascinating novel, as both of […]