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Flash Mob!
Yes, a flash mob in Kona! The Hawaii Island Writers Association is planning a flash mob for Wed, Oct 5. Check out this
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A Business Opportunity?
We just heard about "Cat Cafes" in Japan where people pay by the hour to hang out with cats! If only this would work in Kona, we'd have a much easier time of it! See a video of a cat cafe at Time Video.
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What's the REAL difference between books and e-readers?
This is the best analysis that I've come across about the real, substantive difference between reading a book in 'Codex' form or reading a book on an e-reader (Thanks to Tony T). The Mechanic Muse- From Scroll to Screen compares the shift from bound book to e-reader to the shift from scroll to bound book. As the article says "unlike last time it's not a clear-cut case of a superior technology displacing an inferior one. It's more complex than that. It's more about trade-offs." I, for one agree with the author's conclusion: "The codex won out over the scroll because it did what good technologies are supposed to do: It gave readers a power they never had before, power over the flow of their own reading experience. And until I hear God personally say to me, "Boot up and read," I won't be giving it up."
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Quick Links....
808-324-0350
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Aloha!
Welcome to Kona to all the Ironman participants and their families! Good luck and a safe event to all competitors. We hope our Kona Stories friends will recommend us to their friends visiting for this event. Thanks! |
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This Tuesday Words & Wine at it's best!
We have some award winning, nationally recognized authors lined-up for Tuesday's Words & Wine event. Come on by at 6pm October 4 to talk story and have some light pupus and a beverage. Each author will also talk about or read from their book. Rebecca Cantrell: A Game of Lies.
 The third "Hannah Vogel" mystery series, A Game of Lies received a great review in USA Today's Spy Round-up. Previous books in this series have won the Macavity award and the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award. A faded pink triangle pasted on the wall of Dachau Concentration Camp and time in Berlin, Germany in the 1980s inspired the first novel in the series, "A Trace of Smoke." Fluent in German, Rebecca received her high school diploma from the John F. Kennedy Schule in Berlin and studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin and the Georg August Universität in Göttingen before graduating from Carnegie Mellon University. Rebecca lives in Kona with her Ironman husband and Son. You can learn more at Rebecca's website. Nancy Bo Flood: Warriors in the Crossfire and Pacific Island Legends. Warriors in the Crossfire is set in Saipan during WWII. It tells the story of how 13 year old Joseph survives war, how he changes, what he learns, especially about trust and forgiveness. Warriors has been recognized by the ALA/YALSA as "Best Fiction for Young Adults" and is a Booklist Editor's Choice of Top Ten Historical Novels. Nancy has been a research psychologist, a therapist, and a teacher. Her stories tell about the places she has lived and the people she has met. You can learn more about Nancy and all of her books at her website.
Drew Womack: Drew's Journey to O
 Drew Womack is a multi-media artist, singer and songwriter, who creates art out of wood, tile, glass and paint. His thinking is so far out of the box, he even sees the box as a possible work of art.. Drew is an incurable optimist who appreciates the potential beauty and positive uses in almost everything. He writes songs, and now books about common sense, and enjoying life.
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Book Groups and more.
Second Tuesday: our fiction book group.
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok is the topic for the next meeting of this group. A fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice makes a dazzling fiction debut with this novel about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two cultures.
Event Info:
Tuesday, October 11th
6:30pm
Our Lesbian group:
Our next book will be Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization.
Event Info:
Tuesday, October 18th
6:30pm
Just the Facts: our non-fiction book group:
This month we're reading Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant. As Vaillant re-creates the extraordinary events relating to the hunt for a a man-killing tiger, he gives us an unforgettable and masterful work of narrative nonfiction that combines a riveting portrait of a stark and mysterious region of the world and its people, with the natural history of nature's most deadly predator..
Event Info:
Tuesday, October 25th
6pm
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We're quite happy that inventory's done; it was bloody hard work! This week we have received lots of new product to prepare for the up-coming gift season. New windchimes, puppets, toys, calendars and books are all here for your shopping enjoyment. Come see us soon to have first pick of these wonderful products. Your local independent booksellers,
Brenda and Joy (Owners)
Noble and Shadow (Cats)
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