You’ve seen the movie … would you buy the book? Here to examine that question, and others, is our guest blogger, Honolulu writer (and reader and moviegoer) Sally Sorenson. Welcome, Sally!

“You’ve seen the movie; would you buy the book? Did Clark Gable uttering Rhett Butler’s classic “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” leave you satisfied—that ending said it all—or, like millions of romance junkies over the decades, did you want a sequel? After all, tomorrow was another day.

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“Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise Michelle Cruz Skinner’s much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos tongue-tied and alienated in the motherland, or scattered across the map of heartaches and homesickness in the company of strangers calle [...]
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With the work of more than 30 writers, this issue of Bamboo Ridge opens with the work of the Editors’ Choice Awards winners, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán for poetry, Tyler Miranda for [...]
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An initiative in the works from the nonprofit Internet Archive to centralize the electronic distribution of commercially viable books could upend the publishing industry and declaw Amazon.com

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Story by Dorinda Lum Illustrations by Michael Furuya --Book Signing-- by Dorinda Lum and Michael Furuya Tues, Nov. 1, 2009 11 A.M. Kahala Mall Keoni's Special Gift

--Book Signing-- by Dorinda Lum and Michael Furuya Sunday, November 1, 2009 3 to 4 P.M. Native Books Keoni's Special Gift

The release of In the Company of Strangers was first celebrated with a launch reception and reading at Punahou School three weeks earlier. This reading and reception at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (information provided below) is the second of the two scheduled events. Reception and Reading [...]
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Join us in celebrating the release of the latest regular issue of Bamboo Ridge, Journal of Hawai‘i Literature and Arts (no. 94), the book launch and reading: Monday, November 23, 2009 7:00 p.m. – reception and book signing; 7:30 p.m. – reading* University of Hawai‘i Campus Center Ballroom FR [...]
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Release of In the Company of Strangers will be celebrated with a launch reception and reading at Punahou School (information provided below), followed three weeks later by a reading and reception at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Book Launch and Reading Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:30 p.m. re [...]
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Hawaiians took the kapu -- those rules of good behavior -- damned seriously. Even foreigners in 1810 Honolulu couldn't do business until King Kamehameha lifted religious restrictions. During that Kamehameha period, John Papa I`i, as a youngster, was seized by a need to cough -- at the hours that ab [...]
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