Ohana Halloween Pa`ina

Halloween is the 31st, but we'll be celebrating at Keauhou on Saturday, October 28 with our Ohana Halloween Pa`ina.

Book Clubs

Salt to the Sea

Grunt

Grandma Gatewood_s Walk

Our Fiction Group:

Salt to the Sea by

Ruta Sepetys

Winter 1945. WWII. Four refugees. Four stories. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies, and war. As thousands desperately flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom. But not all promises can be kept.

Tues, Nov.14 @ 6:30pm

O ur Non-fiction Group:

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

by Mary Roach

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.

Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion, heat, noise--and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them.

Tues, Oct. 24 @ 6pm

Our Travel Group:

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

by Ben Montgomery

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin.
Tues, Nov. 21 @ 6:30pm

Read or re-read a classic:

Please note: Due to popular demand for more time to read this lovely book, we have changed the date to Wed. January 17th.

: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Several of us in our Fiction book club decided we wanted to read and discuss Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I haven't read it since high school (this is Joy) and I'm looking forward to seeing what my adult self thinks of this book that I loved in high school. If you want an excuse to read or re-read a classic, you've got some time. We will meet to discuss on Wednesday, January 17th at 5 pm over happy hour at Kenichi's.

One of our favorite authors will be a guest voice on the Simpsons: " Neil Gaiman Brings Coraline to The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror", from the Nerdist.

I don't think we'll be going this far at Kona Stories anytime soon as 'unabashed nudity... and skateboards..' are involved, but the LA Times tells us about "' Experiment I' turns a literary event into performance art".

From the Economist, "Many writers try to span America's political divide. Rarely do they succeed".

According to The Telegraph, "Ernest Hemingway's first work of fiction which he wrote aged 10 found in freezer bag". Just goes to prove the point that the best writers start early!

Mahalo and a hui hou,

Joy and Brenda (Owners)

Noble and Chloe (Cats)

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