How often do you think (or hear other people say), “I wish I could be more creative” ?
I am always amazed at how creative people can be. Like my grandfather who once fixed a washing machine with a milk cap. Like local author Lisa Linn Kanae with her hilarious and brilliant use of simile, or Lee Cataluna and [...]
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, Alison [...]
March 13, 2010 – 11:52 am
Story time has just begun and it’s my turn to blog a book review! I just finished singing “If You’re Happy and You Know It” with some First Book-Oahu volunteers, in front of about 30 kids! They’re all so adorable and happy. If you haven’t been to one of First Book-Oahu’s book fairs then you’re [...]
By M.L. Sanico
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Posted in Book Events, Children's & YA, Fiction, Rec-Fest
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Also tagged A President from Hawaii, Banana Patch Press, colors, Dr. Carolan, Fiction, Goodnight Hawaiian Moon, Hawaii books, Joanna Carolan, Rec-Fest, slippers
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November 9, 2009 – 12:12 pm
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 [...]
October 6, 2009 – 8:08 am
posted by D. Sueoka
Westlake: Poems by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake compiles poems written between the late 1960s and 1984, when Westlake was killed in a car accident on the Big Island. It includes translations of Han Shan, concrete poems, a manifesto, and the series “Down on the Sidewalk in Waikīkī.”
These are poems about bugs, dogs, sex, [...]
October 3, 2009 – 4:12 am
This is a story of those who define Hawaii.
This is a story of Aloha.
It goes without saying that anyone who lived in Hawaii knows that Aloha Airlines was one of its long-standing institutions. An institution that served the Hawaiian Islands for over 61 years, spreading the spirit of Aloha across the state and around the [...]
August 26, 2009 – 8:38 pm
posted by M.L. Sanico
We’ve already begun reading books for the “Support Public Libraries” challenge that we signed up for on JKaye’s blog. But as I mentioned in this previous post, simply checking out, reading and reviewing 25 books by December 31st isn’t enough of a challenge for us. We REALLY want to support Hawaii’s Public [...]
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