M.I.A. March Madness Events

by Alex on March 18, 2013
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Mixing Innovative Arts’ (M.I.A.) award-winning Art & Literary Series celebrates March Madness with not one, but two events this month! The series begins tonight, March 18, 7:30 P.M. at Fresh Cafe’s Loft in Space (831 Queen Street in Honolulu), with a fiction double-header featuring the literary stylings of Lauren Grodstein and Kaui Hart Hemmings. Lauren […]

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“The Descendants” DVD & Book Prize Giveaway

by Alex on March 17, 2012
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Thanks to the generosity of the people at Fox Home Entertainment and ThinkJam, we have a wonderful prize package to giveaway to two of our lucky readers! We have two (2) combo packs to give away.  The combo pack includes: DVD of the critically-acclaimed film “The Descendants” directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney […]

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The Descendants — Ask Kaui Hart Hemmings! + Printable Discussion Guide

by Alex on March 10, 2012
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The Descendants rode a wave of success during film’s awards season, garnering a number of Best Picture and Best Actor awards for the movie and George Clooney respectively. This Tuesday, March 13 marks the release of the critically acclaimed film on Blu-Ray and DVD. In celebration of this event, and in honor of the woman […]

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Book End: Weekend of February 25, 2011

by Alex on February 25, 2011
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It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time!  Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the weekend’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. Captain Cooked Weekend! Three Captain Cooked events mark the weekend!  One each on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Geocaching, the sport of the outdoor hunt using GPS, is alive and well as a plot in […]

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2010 Hawaii Book & Music Festival Recap

by Alex on May 20, 2010
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  The 2010 Hawaii Book & Music Festival (HBMF) ended this past Sunday, and Hawaii Book Blog had a blast!  Misty and I got to meet a lot of great people for the first time and rekindled with a number of others who we’ve previously had the pleasure of meeting.  For more information about what […]

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Book End: Weekend of April 16, 2009

by Alex on April 16, 2010
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It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time!  Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the weekend’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. Whew!  What a week we’ve been having.  National Library Week is killing me!  Between work, writing up lengthy library posts, reading and reviewing books, and an impromptu 2-night marathon of Season 3 of […]

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Book End: Weekend of Nov. 7

by Alex on November 6, 2009
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posted by A.Alba Welcome to another weekend and another edition of Book End.  Probably the biggest news this week for Hawaii Book Blog is that we successfully completed our very first giveaway with a winner all the way in Murfreesboro, Tennessee!  She won an autographed copy of Jocelyn Fujii’s Stories of Aloha.  If you’re reading […]

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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 over the last few decades, engaging readers with  creative and innovative storytelling techniques. Knowing that I enjoy a good […]

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Library Challenge book review: House of Thieves

by Alex on September 3, 2009
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We are just heading into the month of September now, and we are finally moving full steam into our 2009 Hawaii Public Library Challenge! As mentioned previously here, we wanted to take a challenge we joined from another book blog and really amp it up as a way to support our own public libraries here […]

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