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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.
Book Crazy
If you’ve been following my Book Ends the last few weeks, you know I’ve been …
A few weeks ago in one of my Friday Book Beginnings I wrote about a new novel, Tweakerville by Alexei Melnick. In my post I mentioned the unique narration; the harsh, almost unnerving attention to detail of drug culture; …
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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 …
The thing about the holidays, or the entire months of November and December, is that the house is perpetually filled with yummy smells. Family gatherings and food are so much a part of the season, one undoubtedly finds oneself being …
This year we decided that HBB would participate in the Eco Libris Green Book Campaign. In an effort to encourage and support responsible “green” publishing, 200 bloggers will review 200 books on one day. All the books featured in …
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 …
It’s that time of the year again when hordes of consumers descend upon the shopping centers and strip malls across the state to fight amongst each other finding Christmas presents to fulfill their lists. Why not alleviate some of the …
…Only two-hundred years earlier, the Hawaiians who lived during the reign of Kamehameha the Great held their carved ki’i in highest regard for their cultural significance. Now, Hawai’i’s tiki echo of this time long ago and celebrate the traditions of
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 …