You'll want to be in the Keauhou Shopping Center Courtyard on Saturday!
Cool Fusion returns on Saturday, September 23rd!
FESTIVAL OF 1000 BOWLS

The Donkey Mill Art Center presents its 11th annual Cool Fusion: Festival of 1000 Bowls, a celebration of the ceramic, musical, and culinary arts.
 
Admission includes a handmade bowl of your choice heaping with refreshing, home-style, Japanese Somen noodles. Additional handmade ceramic items are available for purchase, and gelato from Gypsea Gelato will be available for an additional fee.   
 
This event sells out, so get your tickets now in person at Kona Stories or on line at The Donkey Mill Art Center.
Book Clubs
Bark
Prisoners of Geography
Elephant Complex

Our Fiction Group: 
Bark by Lorrie Moore

"Moore's writing contains multitudes, mixed in exacting proportions, which is to say: this potpourri is utterly and totally unique . . . There really is no one quite like her." --The New Republic
"Wonderful. . . .Masterful. . . .Profound. .  . Not a single false note." -USA Today 
Tues, Sept. 12 @ 6:30pm



O ur Non-fiction Group:
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World
by Tim Marshall

All leaders choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete.
Using maps, essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely traveled author, Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential guide to one of the major determining factors in world history.
Tues, Sept. 26 @ 6pm  

Our Travel Group:  
Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka by John Gimlette  

John Gimlette takes us from Sri Lanka's exuberant capital city of Colombo to the dry interior where more than 5,300 wild elephants congregate around its ancient reservoirs; from the Portuguese-built forts of cinnamon country to the tsunami-ravaged south-east.
Tues, Oct. 17 @ 6:30pm
What our book clubs thought:
: In the Kingdom of Ice: the Great and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette by Hampton Sides
Our Non-Fiction group all loved this book about Captain George DeLong and his attempt to sail to the North Pole. It is a story of adventure, determination, hardship,and survival. A terrific portrait both of the individuals on the voyage and of the attitudes, and aspirations of the times.
 
Bark by Lorrie Moore
Very mixed review on this book from our Fiction group. The 'loved it' crowd thought Moore created vivid and realistic portraits of a very diverse group of individuals using humor and inventive language. The 'hated it' crown did not relate to any of the characters and found them all quite without redeeming characteristics. They found the stories over-written and just couldn't care less! As I always say, (this is Joy) "There's a reason there is more than one book." 
John Green and Anna Karenina
Turtles All the Way Down
Anna Karenina

Reserve your copy now!

Release date: October 10th for the next novel from John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska.
Call 808-324-0350 or  e-mail:
ks@konastories.com to reserve your copy!

Read or Re-read a Classic!

A hardy few of us plan to read Anna Karenina and meet to discuss in early November.Stay tuned for date and time, but use this excuse to read one of the most influential novels of all time  

Because we're big fans of teachers, here are the "Top 10 books about teaching" from the Guardian.
 
 
While we had very mixed reviews in our fiction group for the short story collection Bark, that doesn't mean you should swear off short stories. From Electric Lit an " INFOGRAPHIC: The Benefits of Reading Short Stories".   
 
Last, because the new Ken Burns documentary, "The Vietnam War" is beginning on Sunday, here are what the New York Times says are " 20 Must-read Books on the Vietnam War". 
 
Mahalo and a hui hou,
Joy and Brenda (Owners)
Noble and Chloe (Cats) 

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