Writer, reporter, biographer, poet. These are just a few words to define a man so multifaceted and with such a love for prose that he can fill this book, Slices of Life in Hawaii Volume 1, with over sixty-five short stories and poems about Hawaii’s people, history and culture. This man, J. Arthur Rath III, is [...]
Happy April Fool’s Day! I’m not much of a prankster myself, but several of my closest loved ones are. I’m usually their favorite target because I’m terribly gullible and naturally inclined to believe others. So, every year I try to be especially on guard on April 1st… wish me luck! But seriously, when your mother [...]
It was the Marcos regime in the mid-1970s that coined the term balikbayan by joining the Tagalog words balik, to return, with bayan, meaning town and nation. A balikbayan’s relationship to the Philippines is construed in terms of his sentimental attachments to his hometown and extended family rather than his loyalty to the nation-state. At [...]
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Halloween is one of our favorite holidays here at HBB but it always seems to sneak up on us. We had some grand plans for the blog and wanted to do a scary story each week, or visit haunted locations on the island and take pictures, but trekking to spooky places in between [...]
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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 [...]
If the answer to this question is yes, then you could be the person that Kate Sommers is looking for. Kate is a writer living in Hawaii whose first published book, Danny and the Dolphin will be released in a few weeks. The book is a short story based on the teachings of Abraham-Hicks and [...]
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Pass On, No Pass Back! is the award-winning collection of nine short stories by local author Darrell H.Y. Lum. Lum is well known for providing a prominent voice to the art of Hawaii’s Pidgin English storytelling, and most of the short stories in this book are told in this narrative style. Pass On, No Pass Back! was originally published [...]
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