Book End: Weekend of November 4, 2011
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 Hawaiʻi. Book Fair Both Barnes & Noble stores on Oahu are hosting book fairs this Saturday. Typicall for book fairs, if you mention the organization when purchasing an item (or you bring a coupon to the […]
Mingmei Yip in Hawaii – Song of the Silk Road
Author Mingmei Yip will be coming to Hawaiʻi on Saturday, April 2. At Barnes & Noble Ala Moana, this Saturday at 1:00 p.m., Mingmei will be a featured guest at the book store, hosting a Q&A session for readers, followed by a book signing. Her latest novel, Song of the Silk Road, which came out […]
Have you read former Governor Cayetano’s required High School reading?
Friday night, Alex and I went to the kick off of the Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation’s “Inspired in Hawaii” series. Along with several corporate sponsors and participation from Sacred Hearts Academy and Saint Louis High School, the “Inspired in Hawaii” essay/poster contest and speaker series brings together a host of professionals for a weekend long […]
March Rec-Fest 2010 Wrap-Up
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 […]
March Rec-Fest Book 4: Tuesday
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, […]
Stories of Aloha Giveaway!
First off, I want to send a big mahalo out to everybody involved with the special Stories of Aloha book distribution and signing event for former Aloha Airlines (AQ) employees. This event was put together thanks to Jocelyn Fujii, Hula Moon Press, Lokahi for Aloha Fund, and Aloha Air Cargo who hosted the event on their […]
Book End – Weekend of Sep. 19
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. Then, last week when we wrote this post, Hawaii was at #6. Thanks to everybody who has […]
Book End – Weekend of Sep. 12
Thanks again to everybody for reading Hawaii Book Blog. We are now all in with our Hawaii Public Library Challenge, touring all of Oahu’s public libraries and getting Hawaii book recommendations from each one. In the meantime, we have a couple more book reviews nearly finished as well as a few feature posts coming soon. […]
Todd Shimoda at Borders-Lihue (8/29)
posted by A.Alba This one is for our Kauai residents or those of you who will be on the Garden Isle on the weekend of the 29th. On Saturday, August 29 at 2pm, Kauai based author Todd Shimoda will be at the Borders Bookstore in Lihue doing a reading from his latest novel, Oh! A mystery of ‘mono […]
Rec-fest Book 8/8: The Little Lima Bean
This is it! As we are actually ahead of schedule I will be posting our final entry a little early, since we are slowly wrapping things up here. Phew! We accomplished our goal of doing 8 keiki book reviews, all of which are available from the Barnes & Noble Kahala children’s section. In the process […]
Rec-fest Book 7/8: The Watercolor Cat
posted by M.L. Sanico Our Book Fair Fundraiser and 8/8 Rec-fest is almost coming to a close, Celeste Gonsalves is all set up now and talking to teens about her new book Teen Wise. She’s a fantastic lady and her enthusiasm and drive have made me an instant fan and admirer. Keep an ear out […]
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