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In this issue: Mahalo! and book clubs.
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We had tons of fun at our Harry Potter Party!
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Welcome to Hogwarts
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Anna Miller
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The winner of a hardcover Illustrated edition of
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was Anna Miller.
We sold out of our initial order of
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. More due in on Monday. If you've read yours already, let us know what you think:
[email protected]
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"Second Tuesday" |
Come to a Book Group.
Our groups are fun and easy. It's even okay if you don't finish the book. Pick a genre: fiction, non-fiction or travel; bring a light pupu or beverage, and enjoy!
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"Second Tuesday"- Our fiction group: August, 9 @6:30pm
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Avenue of Mysteries |
John Irving's Avenue of Mysteries is next for our fiction group.
Juan Diego-- a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico -- has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming -- specifically, her own future and her brother's. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you... As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, ... where what happened to him in the past -- in Mexico -- collides with his future.
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Our Travel and Adventure group: August 16 @6:30pm
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| The Oregon Trail |
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
, by Rinker Buck is our next book. This bestseller has been hailed as a quintessential American story. This is an epic account of traveling the 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way in a covered wagon with a team of mules that has captivated readers, critics, and booksellers from coast to coast. Simultaneously a majestic journey across the West, a significant work of history, and a moving personal saga, Buck's chronicle is a laugh-out-loud masterpiece that so ensnares the emotions it becomes a tear-jerker at its close, and will leave you daydreaming and hungry to see this land.
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"Just the Facts": our non-fiction group: August 23 @6:00pm
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Empire of Cotton |
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
, by Sven Beckert is our next book. The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.
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 Let's start with a good news article from Open Culture, "Book Readers Live Longer Lives".
The Reading Room tells us that you can own "... Books Read by Famous People". Proceeds go to charity.
"10 Unusual Libraries Around the World" from Flavorwire.
Last, if you want your books to never end, here is "The Endless Summer Reading List: 14 Long-Running Novel Series".
Aloha and a hui hou,
Brenda and Joy, owners
Noble, cat
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