Another special guest for the Celebrate Reading Festival is acclaimed author Matt de la Peña. His collection of young adult novels are critically praised, urban dramas with unforgettable characters and themes. Check out our review of Ball Don’t Lie here. We Were Here is the story of Miguel, a Mexican-American teen who is court ordered […]
It may surprise some, but I’ve read heaps more science fiction than Alex has. It may also be surprising that there are more female science fiction authors than you’d think, which is preposterous because why should anyone think about the gender of science fiction authors at all? Why is sci-fi associated with male readers anyway? Are […]
You know how it is when something is bugging you, it haunts you wherever you go? Everything somehow reminds you of that thing? You notice things you never noticed before. Or when you’re on a diet and have a craving suddenly everywhere you look people are eating ono food? Well, that’s the basic premise of […]
This review is about a year overdue. You know how it is when you really like something and it’s hard to write about it because you want it to be just right? That’s how I feel about this next book, and since it won an Award of Excellence at the Ka Palapala Po’okela Awards last […]
– Well it’s another week closer to the end of 2010 and I dunno about you but I am nowhere near prepared for the holidays. I feel like it’s still August and yet, here we are already on week two of HBB’s Cookbook Countdown to New Year! If you missed week 1, go back and […]
Just in time for the holiday season, Mutual Publishing has come out with a handful of promising new keiki books! Hawaiiana children’s books are always so much fun to read especially since the quality of said keiki books produced here have been improving exponentially with diverse and intelligent story-lines and sophisticated illustrations. In Maile and […]
Almost a year ago Alex and I stumbled into Haili’s on Kapahulu to buy a combo laulau plate and a new book from Watermark Publishing. Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands had just been released and author Arnold Hiura was signing copies in the restaurant. Over the course of the year Kau […]
Those of us watching the recent episode of Hawaii Five-O last night were hard pressed not to notice the grassy hills and stoic marble buildings of the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Generous (and gorgeous) shots of the iconic Honolulu Memorial at Punchbowl served as a backdrop for the sibling reunion of Lt. Steve […]
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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