March Rec-Fest Book 2: Where Are My Slippers

by Misty on March 13, 2010
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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 …

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Book Review – Balikbayan: A Filipino Homecoming

by Alex on November 9, 2009
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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

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Book Review: Westlake: Poems by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake, edited by Mei-Li M. Siy and Richard Hamasaki

by Dawn on October 6, 2009
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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 …

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Book Review: Stories of Aloha by Jocelyn Fujii

by Alex on October 3, 2009
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[gn_quote]This is a story of those who define Hawaiʻi.
This is a story of Aloha.[/gn_quote]

It goes without saying that anyone who lived in Hawaiʻi knows Aloha Airlines was one of its long-standing institutions, one that served the Hawaiian Islands …

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Library Challenge Book Review: School For Hawaiian Girls

by Misty on August 26, 2009
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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 …

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