World Book Night
The goal of this event is to give books to new readers, to encourage reading and to share your passion for a great book.
World Book Night is looking for book-loving volunteers to fan out across America on April 23, 2012! Just take 20 free copies of a book to a location in your community, and you just might change someone's life. Joy's already signed-up to participate and we've submitted Kona Stores to be a book collection location. Please sign up by Feb. 1. 2012.
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A Sharper Mind
So, looks like our book clubs, and especially our non-fiction group, can improve your mental fitness at any age. "Education seems to be an elixir that can bring us a healthy body and mind throughout adulthood and even a longer life" says one scientist in this article in the New York Times. Over the last 5 years "Just the Facts" has learned about Gertrude Bell, Tigers, Waves, Genghis Khan, Cryptology, Quantum Physics, the CIA, Running, Happiness, the Pilgrims, the Dust Bowl, the Flu and more. See what a book a month can do for you... oh, yeah, it's fun, too!
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Hours
Monday-Sat: 10am-6pm
Sunday 11am-5pm
Open later for events in the store or in the courtyard.
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Quick Links....
808-324-0350
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Aloha!
Please forward this e-mail to friends with children or grandchildren on-island to come to story time. This is the first of 5 once a month events.
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Winter is for Whales:
Story time Returns: Wed., Jan. 25th at 10:30am.
Kona Stories has teamed with the AAUW for an new series of Story times. Beginning Wed, Jan 25th we will have story time on the last Wednesday of the month at 10:30am in the Keauhou Shopping Center courtyard. All pre-schoolers, boys and girls, between 3 and 5 years old are welcome to this fun event that will include stories a craft and snacks.
January's event will feature stories and crafts about the Whales that visit our island this time of year. Participants wishing to attend story time should e-mail or call and register at 808-324-0350. There will be a $5.00 participation fee to cover crafts and snack. Space is limited to 30 children. Please check in 10 minutes early at Kona Stories Book Store.
Since 1881, the American Association of University Women has been the nation's leading voice promoting education and equity for women and girls. The AAUW promotes equity for all women and girls, lifelong education, and positive societal change. Volunteers from the Kona Chapter (of which, Joy is a member) will be our story tellers and craft leaders. Many thanks to the Kona AAUW. We'd also like to thank Stephanie of Blue Journey and Joan of Happy Honu Farms for sponsoring this series of events.
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Culinary Book Club: A New Group.
Interested in cooking, cookbooks and talking about same? Kona Stories own cooking maven, Tiare wants to start a Culinary book group to focus on cookbooks and culinary memoirs. The February Theme is Chocolate.
The first meeting of this group will be February 8th from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Please bring your favorite dish featuring chocolate as well as a printed recipe to share with the group. We also hope you'll bring ideas for future themes and books. If you're unable to make this day and time, but would like to participate, please let us know what would work for you: e-mail us.
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Book Groups and more.
"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting" -Edmund Burke. Come reflect with our fun book groups.
Just the Facts- Our Non-Fiction Group:
We will discuss Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah Swiss at the next meeting of this group. The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.Event Info: Tuesday, January 24th 6pm Second Tuesday- Our Fiction Group:
This group is reading A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron. A Dog's Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend.
Event Info:
Tuesday, February 14th
Next up for our lesbian group is Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg. In a steam-filled diner in a college town, 17-year-old Flannery Jansen meets a remote, brilliant older woman who soon becomes her idol. A bittersweet, sentimental education, "Pages for You" confirms Sylvia Brownrigg as "one of the most exuberantly agile minds among younger American writers" Dan Cryer,Newsday.
Event Info:
Tuesday, February 21st 6:30pm
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Johnathan Gourlay stops reading books. Here's what happens to him: In the land of the non-reader. Don't let it happen to you.
Your local independent booksellers, Brenda and Joy (Owners) Noble and Shadow (Cats) |
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Our next author event will be on Tues. Feb 7 @ 6pm. We will host 4 visiting authors:
