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books
Keep your Reading List on Bookship
Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family co-workers or book club.
Bookship comes to the browser
Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family and co-workers. It’s great for sharing thoughts, comments, photos ...
A little North Atlantic book excursion
I’ve always had a bit of what W.H. Auden called “The Northern Thing”. So imagine my delight when I discovered a book featuring a Boston detective (I live par...
How to sound spontaneous when you pitch
Bookship was very fortunate to be selected by The Bookseller as one of six candidates for BookTech Company of the Year. Super exciting; great validation; gre...
Read more books with friends in 2018
A great new year’s resolution is to read more/better books, especially in today’s age of distraction. I made a mobile app called Bookship that helps you read...
Reading Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War with Bookship
My mother passed last year from complications due to ALS. She was unfailingly in good spirits during her battle with the disease, even knowing it was a terri...
My year in reading, 2017
Each year I try to summarize what I read, in hopes of improving and enjoying my reading more. Last year, I lamented reading too much fluff, and promised to r...
Whoa. Shortlisted for BookTech Company of the Year!
Wow. The Bookseller has shortlisted us for BookTech Company of the Year! Kinda surprising actually! Very excited. We’ll be competing in the finals at the Fut...
The Bookseller!
Really excited to see our social reading app Bookship profiled on The Bookseller, one of the UK’s oldest magazines and the leading Publishing trade publicati...
“Best of” lists considered not useful
I saw this story today.
Some Rise by Sin, by Philip Caputo
Philip Caputo has written some masterpieces of people and cultures in conflict. Best known perhaps for A Rumor of War, his Vietnam novel, I was first exposed...
Recently we were interviewed by the inimitable Justine Espiritu for ThinkTech HI.
Recently we were interviewed by the inimitable Justine Espiritu for ThinkTech HI. We talked The Hawaii Project, Books & Spirits, and other fun stuff. Hav...
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
I have taken to reading a few pages of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations every morning as an antidote for all the everything going on (not just, or even foremost,...
Bright Air Black, by David Vann
Myth is bloody business.
Amazon Alexa book recommender
Today marks our 2nd foray into voice-driven book recommendations. Today we’re releasing an Alexa Skill for book recommendations, powered by The Hawaii Projec...
Social Reading
Reading a book? $9.99 or so. Reading a book with a friend? Priceless.
Some interesting new books set in Hawaii
Here at The Hawaii Project, we have an unsurprising interest in books set in Hawaii, or by authors with a connection to Hawaii.
Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Justice was the “it” book of science fiction in 2013. It won the 2014 Hugo, the Nebula, the Arthur C. Clarke, the Locus, and other awards. The list...
Burning the Days, by James Salter
I recently reviewed the books I read last year. Some great stuff, but also too much “bookish junk food”. I’m committed to reading better this year.
My year in reading, 2016
The irony of building a book discovery web site is that my TBR pile gets increasingly huge (~300 books and counting), while I have increasingly less time to ...
CURATION, DISCOVERY AND THE INDIE AUTHOR
Indie publishing has created a revolution. Hugh Howey became one of the top selling science fiction authors via self-publishing. Author Earnings reports that...
Song of the Exile, by Kiana Davenport
Song of the Exile is an extraordinary, powerful, heartbreaking novel. It follows the lives of Keo, a native Hawaiian who burns to play jazz, and Sunny, a Kor...
The Knowledge, by Steven Pressfield
You probably know Pressfield as the author of Gates of Fire. Or maybe The Legend of Bagger Vance. Or maybe The War of Art. All amazing works.
Find me a gift, Quick!!
Few things make better gifts than a thoughtfully chosen, personalized book.
The Pigeon Tunnel, by John Le Carré
I recently finished The Pigeon Tunnel, the ‘autobiography’ of David Cornwell, aka John Le Carré, the well known writer of espionage novels.
Black Sails, Disco Inferno
(I am not making this up) A book premised on a 1970s, disco-laden Noir retelling of the medieval Tristan and Isolde legend. Sign me up.
A Conversation with Jim Fusilli, author of CRIME + MUSIC: Twenty Stories of Music-Themed Noir
As I’ve previously written, Books & Music go together so naturally it’s hard to imagine them separately. But that pairing is usually implicit. So it’s a ...
A Conversation with Alexia Chamberlynn
As part of our author profile series, we had a chance to catch up with Alexia Chamberlynn, author of Martinis with the Devil, Whiskey with Angelfire and Blac...
The Last Supper, by Charles McCarry
Charles McCarry might be the true heir to John Le Carré. His spy novels have plenty of thrills, but focus on the human aspects of espionage, the betrayals, t...
The Girl from Venice, by Martin Cruz Smith
From it’s evocative cover to its low key, upbeat ending, The Girl From Venice is an enjoyable, surprisingly romantic outing from Martin Cruz Smith.
whitefox publishing, and why books are like Pokemon Go!
As part of our ongoing series of interviews with authors and folks from the publishing word, we had a chance to catch up with John Bond, the CEO of whitefox ...
Books & Spirits tonight!
If you are in Hawaii and love Books or Cocktails or both, you owe it to yourself to come to tonight’s Books & Spirits!
Books & Cocktails: an event with Jaimal Yogis in Hawaii
If you are in Hawaii and love books and/or cocktails, please come to this event! It’s the kickoff event for Books & Spirits, the new event series we’ve c...
How to find Free Books
Everyone loves to read. But books can be expensive! Here are some great ways to read books for free.
A conversation with Martin Cate, co-author of Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult…
Here at The Hawaii Project, you know we love great books. And you know we love great cocktails. And you can guess we’re into the Hawaii thing. So when Smuggl...
A conversation with Stuart Holmes Coleman, part II
(this is a continuation of our conversation with Stuart Holmes Coleman, author of Eddie Aikau: Hawaiian Hero, Fierce Heart, and Eddie Would Go. You can find ...
Smuggler’s Cove, Cocktails and Tiki
You know we love a good book here at The Hawaii Project.
Kika the Book Cat
We’re considering a new mascot here at The Hawaii Project.
Oh good lord.
Oh good lord.
Adding books to The Hawaii Project
The Hawaii Project finds great books you’d never find on your own. We do that by crawling a curated set of the “bookish” web and seeing what books people are...
So you want to learn about Jazz…
The best way to learn about jazz is to listen to jazz. That said, put some jazz on your playlist WHILE you read some books about jazz.
Hemingway in Cuba
So, I’m planning on going to see Papa Hemingway in Cuba this weekend. I was introduced to the topic of Hemingway in Cuba through the wonderful novel The Croo...
Books about female spies
Inspired by my reading The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, the first espionage book I’ve read with a female protagonist, I did some research on books with female...
The Travelers, by Chris Pavone
For a long time, I’ve wondered about how to characterize the difference between a spy novel and and a spy thriller. After reading a review copy of Chris Pavo...
March Madness Books
Are you watching March Madness?
Election Year Books
I was in a Barnes & Noble the other day, and noticed something interesting.
Another nail in the coffin of subscription book reading
Electric Literature reports:
Snow Angels, by James Thompson
On the plane down to my parents house for a visit, on the way out of the house I grab a random book for the plane out of my gargantuan TBR pile. It’s Snow An...
The Never Open Desert Diner
Ben Jones drives a truck in southern Utah. He’s damn near broke, about to lose his truck, and his best friend is Walt, an old guy who owns a diner that’s nev...
Hybrid and non-traditional Books
One of the topics at the upcoming CODEX Hackathon (which The Hawaii Project is sponsoring and helping organize) is the future of books.
Scoundrel, by Bernard Cornwell
As part of my continuing experiment with Scribd’s ebook subscription service, I stumbled upon Scoundrel, by one of my favorite authors, Bernard Cornwell. I k...
Spies of the Balkans, by Alan Furst
Alan Furst is the master of the historical spy novel, particularly the era just before World War II erupts. In Spies of the Balkans, he takes on, well, the B...
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Tl/DR: If you liked Gorky Park or anything by Martin Cruz Smith, read Child 44.
Death in Veracruz, by Héctor Aguilar Camín
As part of my continuing test of Scribd’s subscription ebooks service, I stumbled on Héctor Aguilar Camín’s Death in Veracruz. Set in the ‘60s and ‘70s durin...
SPECTRE, Bond and SOLO
So, I recently finished Any Human Heart by William Boyd, and really loved it. With SPECTRE coming up (haven’t been yet but can’t wait!), I wanted to get in t...
Introducing Lists to The Hawaii Project!
Everybody loves lists, right?
The Ten Best Spy Novels you never heard of
You know the classics. A Perfect Spy, Tinker Tailor or The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John Le Carre. Alan Furst’s Eastern Europe. Graham Greene’s jaun...
William Gibson, Startups and Verbs
So, I’m reading Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last 20 years, Gibson is novelist who famo...
The limits of Social Discovery
This is the second post in our continuing series on how and why The Hawaii Project recommends great books, and more broadly the key ingredients in a good dis...
The breakdown of the subscription model for books.
Is this the beginning of the end for subscription ebooks services?
reading
Keep your Reading List on Bookship
Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family co-workers or book club.
Bookship comes to the browser
Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family and co-workers. It’s great for sharing thoughts, comments, photos ...
Read more books with friends in 2018
A great new year’s resolution is to read more/better books, especially in today’s age of distraction. I made a mobile app called Bookship that helps you read...
Reading Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War with Bookship
My mother passed last year from complications due to ALS. She was unfailingly in good spirits during her battle with the disease, even knowing it was a terri...
My year in reading, 2017
Each year I try to summarize what I read, in hopes of improving and enjoying my reading more. Last year, I lamented reading too much fluff, and promised to r...
Whoa. Shortlisted for BookTech Company of the Year!
Wow. The Bookseller has shortlisted us for BookTech Company of the Year! Kinda surprising actually! Very excited. We’ll be competing in the finals at the Fut...
The Bookseller!
Really excited to see our social reading app Bookship profiled on The Bookseller, one of the UK’s oldest magazines and the leading Publishing trade publicati...
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
I have taken to reading a few pages of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations every morning as an antidote for all the everything going on (not just, or even foremost,...
Social Reading
Reading a book? $9.99 or so. Reading a book with a friend? Priceless.
My year in reading, 2016
The irony of building a book discovery web site is that my TBR pile gets increasingly huge (~300 books and counting), while I have increasingly less time to ...
Find me a gift, Quick!!
Few things make better gifts than a thoughtfully chosen, personalized book.
Books & Spirits tonight!
If you are in Hawaii and love Books or Cocktails or both, you owe it to yourself to come to tonight’s Books & Spirits!
Books & Cocktails: an event with Jaimal Yogis in Hawaii
If you are in Hawaii and love books and/or cocktails, please come to this event! It’s the kickoff event for Books & Spirits, the new event series we’ve c...
How to find Free Books
Everyone loves to read. But books can be expensive! Here are some great ways to read books for free.
Introducing Lists to The Hawaii Project!
Everybody loves lists, right?
book-review
My year in reading, 2017
Each year I try to summarize what I read, in hopes of improving and enjoying my reading more. Last year, I lamented reading too much fluff, and promised to r...
Some Rise by Sin, by Philip Caputo
Philip Caputo has written some masterpieces of people and cultures in conflict. Best known perhaps for A Rumor of War, his Vietnam novel, I was first exposed...
Bright Air Black, by David Vann
Myth is bloody business.
Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Justice was the “it” book of science fiction in 2013. It won the 2014 Hugo, the Nebula, the Arthur C. Clarke, the Locus, and other awards. The list...
Song of the Exile, by Kiana Davenport
Song of the Exile is an extraordinary, powerful, heartbreaking novel. It follows the lives of Keo, a native Hawaiian who burns to play jazz, and Sunny, a Kor...
The Knowledge, by Steven Pressfield
You probably know Pressfield as the author of Gates of Fire. Or maybe The Legend of Bagger Vance. Or maybe The War of Art. All amazing works.
A Conversation with Jim Fusilli, author of CRIME + MUSIC: Twenty Stories of Music-Themed Noir
As I’ve previously written, Books & Music go together so naturally it’s hard to imagine them separately. But that pairing is usually implicit. So it’s a ...
The Last Supper, by Charles McCarry
Charles McCarry might be the true heir to John Le Carré. His spy novels have plenty of thrills, but focus on the human aspects of espionage, the betrayals, t...
The Girl from Venice, by Martin Cruz Smith
From it’s evocative cover to its low key, upbeat ending, The Girl From Venice is an enjoyable, surprisingly romantic outing from Martin Cruz Smith.
Books about female spies
Inspired by my reading The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, the first espionage book I’ve read with a female protagonist, I did some research on books with female...
The Travelers, by Chris Pavone
For a long time, I’ve wondered about how to characterize the difference between a spy novel and and a spy thriller. After reading a review copy of Chris Pavo...
Our Man in Havana
After finishing Adam Sisman’s gripping biography of John Le Carre, as a seasoned reader of espionage fiction I realized I had a big gap — I’d not read Graham...
The Never Open Desert Diner
Ben Jones drives a truck in southern Utah. He’s damn near broke, about to lose his truck, and his best friend is Walt, an old guy who owns a diner that’s nev...
espionage
The Pigeon Tunnel, by John Le Carré
I recently finished The Pigeon Tunnel, the ‘autobiography’ of David Cornwell, aka John Le Carré, the well known writer of espionage novels.
The Last Supper, by Charles McCarry
Charles McCarry might be the true heir to John Le Carré. His spy novels have plenty of thrills, but focus on the human aspects of espionage, the betrayals, t...
Books about female spies
Inspired by my reading The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, the first espionage book I’ve read with a female protagonist, I did some research on books with female...
The Travelers, by Chris Pavone
For a long time, I’ve wondered about how to characterize the difference between a spy novel and and a spy thriller. After reading a review copy of Chris Pavo...
Our Man in Havana
After finishing Adam Sisman’s gripping biography of John Le Carre, as a seasoned reader of espionage fiction I realized I had a big gap — I’d not read Graham...
Scoundrel, by Bernard Cornwell
As part of my continuing experiment with Scribd’s ebook subscription service, I stumbled upon Scoundrel, by one of my favorite authors, Bernard Cornwell. I k...
Spies of the Balkans, by Alan Furst
Alan Furst is the master of the historical spy novel, particularly the era just before World War II erupts. In Spies of the Balkans, he takes on, well, the B...
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Tl/DR: If you liked Gorky Park or anything by Martin Cruz Smith, read Child 44.
The Ten Best Spy Novels you never heard of
You know the classics. A Perfect Spy, Tinker Tailor or The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John Le Carre. Alan Furst’s Eastern Europe. Graham Greene’s jaun...
publishing
CURATION, DISCOVERY AND THE INDIE AUTHOR
Indie publishing has created a revolution. Hugh Howey became one of the top selling science fiction authors via self-publishing. Author Earnings reports that...
A Conversation with Alexia Chamberlynn
As part of our author profile series, we had a chance to catch up with Alexia Chamberlynn, author of Martinis with the Devil, Whiskey with Angelfire and Blac...
whitefox publishing, and why books are like Pokemon Go!
As part of our ongoing series of interviews with authors and folks from the publishing word, we had a chance to catch up with John Bond, the CEO of whitefox ...
Another nail in the coffin of subscription book reading
Electric Literature reports:
music
Bright Air Black, by David Vann
Myth is bloody business.
Black Sails, Disco Inferno
(I am not making this up) A book premised on a 1970s, disco-laden Noir retelling of the medieval Tristan and Isolde legend. Sign me up.
A Conversation with Jim Fusilli, author of CRIME + MUSIC: Twenty Stories of Music-Themed Noir
As I’ve previously written, Books & Music go together so naturally it’s hard to imagine them separately. But that pairing is usually implicit. So it’s a ...
So you want to learn about Jazz…
The best way to learn about jazz is to listen to jazz. That said, put some jazz on your playlist WHILE you read some books about jazz.
Snow Angels, by James Thompson
On the plane down to my parents house for a visit, on the way out of the house I grab a random book for the plane out of my gargantuan TBR pile. It’s Snow An...
hawaii
Some interesting new books set in Hawaii
Here at The Hawaii Project, we have an unsurprising interest in books set in Hawaii, or by authors with a connection to Hawaii.
Song of the Exile, by Kiana Davenport
Song of the Exile is an extraordinary, powerful, heartbreaking novel. It follows the lives of Keo, a native Hawaiian who burns to play jazz, and Sunny, a Kor...
Books & Spirits tonight!
If you are in Hawaii and love Books or Cocktails or both, you owe it to yourself to come to tonight’s Books & Spirits!
Books & Cocktails: an event with Jaimal Yogis in Hawaii
If you are in Hawaii and love books and/or cocktails, please come to this event! It’s the kickoff event for Books & Spirits, the new event series we’ve c...
A conversation with Martin Cate, co-author of Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult…
Here at The Hawaii Project, you know we love great books. And you know we love great cocktails. And you can guess we’re into the Hawaii thing. So when Smuggl...
A conversation with Stuart Holmes Coleman, part II
(this is a continuation of our conversation with Stuart Holmes Coleman, author of Eddie Aikau: Hawaiian Hero, Fierce Heart, and Eddie Would Go. You can find ...
startup
How to sound spontaneous when you pitch
Bookship was very fortunate to be selected by The Bookseller as one of six candidates for BookTech Company of the Year. Super exciting; great validation; gre...
Whoa. Shortlisted for BookTech Company of the Year!
Wow. The Bookseller has shortlisted us for BookTech Company of the Year! Kinda surprising actually! Very excited. We’ll be competing in the finals at the Fut...
William Gibson, Startups and Verbs
So, I’m reading Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last 20 years, Gibson is novelist who famo...
The breakdown of the subscription model for books.
Is this the beginning of the end for subscription ebooks services?
curation
“Best of” lists considered not useful
I saw this story today.
Recently we were interviewed by the inimitable Justine Espiritu for ThinkTech HI.
Recently we were interviewed by the inimitable Justine Espiritu for ThinkTech HI. We talked The Hawaii Project, Books & Spirits, and other fun stuff. Hav...
CURATION, DISCOVERY AND THE INDIE AUTHOR
Indie publishing has created a revolution. Hugh Howey became one of the top selling science fiction authors via self-publishing. Author Earnings reports that...
travel
A conversation with Martin Cate, co-author of Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult…
Here at The Hawaii Project, you know we love great books. And you know we love great cocktails. And you can guess we’re into the Hawaii thing. So when Smuggl...
Snow Angels, by James Thompson
On the plane down to my parents house for a visit, on the way out of the house I grab a random book for the plane out of my gargantuan TBR pile. It’s Snow An...
ebooks
How to find Free Books
Everyone loves to read. But books can be expensive! Here are some great ways to read books for free.
Another nail in the coffin of subscription book reading
Electric Literature reports:
surfing
Books & Cocktails: an event with Jaimal Yogis in Hawaii
If you are in Hawaii and love books and/or cocktails, please come to this event! It’s the kickoff event for Books & Spirits, the new event series we’ve c...
A conversation with Stuart Holmes Coleman, part II
(this is a continuation of our conversation with Stuart Holmes Coleman, author of Eddie Aikau: Hawaiian Hero, Fierce Heart, and Eddie Would Go. You can find ...
cocktails
Books & Spirits tonight!
If you are in Hawaii and love Books or Cocktails or both, you owe it to yourself to come to tonight’s Books & Spirits!
A conversation with Martin Cate, co-author of Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult…
Here at The Hawaii Project, you know we love great books. And you know we love great cocktails. And you can guess we’re into the Hawaii thing. So when Smuggl...
Smuggler’s Cove, Cocktails and Tiki
You know we love a good book here at The Hawaii Project.
tech
lists
Keep your Reading List on Bookship
Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family co-workers or book club.
“Best of” lists considered not useful
I saw this story today.
Introducing Lists to The Hawaii Project!
Everybody loves lists, right?
fiction
The Never Open Desert Diner
Ben Jones drives a truck in southern Utah. He’s damn near broke, about to lose his truck, and his best friend is Walt, an old guy who owns a diner that’s nev...
movies
Hemingway in Cuba
So, I’m planning on going to see Papa Hemingway in Cuba this weekend. I was introduced to the topic of Hemingway in Cuba through the wonderful novel The Croo...
SPECTRE, Bond and SOLO
So, I recently finished Any Human Heart by William Boyd, and really loved it. With SPECTRE coming up (haven’t been yet but can’t wait!), I wanted to get in t...
cuba
Our Man in Havana
After finishing Adam Sisman’s gripping biography of John Le Carre, as a seasoned reader of espionage fiction I realized I had a big gap — I’d not read Graham...
history
Reading Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War with Bookship
My mother passed last year from complications due to ALS. She was unfailingly in good spirits during her battle with the disease, even knowing it was a terri...
bookstores
Back to Top ↑self-publishing
CURATION, DISCOVERY AND THE INDIE AUTHOR
Indie publishing has created a revolution. Hugh Howey became one of the top selling science fiction authors via self-publishing. Author Earnings reports that...
A Conversation with Alexia Chamberlynn
As part of our author profile series, we had a chance to catch up with Alexia Chamberlynn, author of Martinis with the Devil, Whiskey with Angelfire and Blac...
whitefox publishing, and why books are like Pokemon Go!
As part of our ongoing series of interviews with authors and folks from the publishing word, we had a chance to catch up with John Bond, the CEO of whitefox ...
myth
Bright Air Black, by David Vann
Myth is bloody business.
Black Sails, Disco Inferno
(I am not making this up) A book premised on a 1970s, disco-laden Noir retelling of the medieval Tristan and Isolde legend. Sign me up.
book-club
Social Reading
Reading a book? $9.99 or so. Reading a book with a friend? Priceless.
mobile-apps
Bookship comes to the browser
Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family and co-workers. It’s great for sharing thoughts, comments, photos ...
mobile
Read more books with friends in 2018
A great new year’s resolution is to read more/better books, especially in today’s age of distraction. I made a mobile app called Bookship that helps you read...
Whoa. Shortlisted for BookTech Company of the Year!
Wow. The Bookseller has shortlisted us for BookTech Company of the Year! Kinda surprising actually! Very excited. We’ll be competing in the finals at the Fut...
The Bookseller!
Really excited to see our social reading app Bookship profiled on The Bookseller, one of the UK’s oldest magazines and the leading Publishing trade publicati...
climate-change
Back to Top ↑entrepreneurship
How to sound spontaneous when you pitch
Bookship was very fortunate to be selected by The Bookseller as one of six candidates for BookTech Company of the Year. Super exciting; great validation; gre...
vikings
A little North Atlantic book excursion
I’ve always had a bit of what W.H. Auden called “The Northern Thing”. So imagine my delight when I discovered a book featuring a Boston detective (I live par...
james-bond
SPECTRE, Bond and SOLO
So, I recently finished Any Human Heart by William Boyd, and really loved it. With SPECTRE coming up (haven’t been yet but can’t wait!), I wanted to get in t...
mexico
Some Rise by Sin, by Philip Caputo
Philip Caputo has written some masterpieces of people and cultures in conflict. Best known perhaps for A Rumor of War, his Vietnam novel, I was first exposed...
Death in Veracruz, by Héctor Aguilar Camín
As part of my continuing test of Scribd’s subscription ebooks service, I stumbled on Héctor Aguilar Camín’s Death in Veracruz. Set in the ‘60s and ‘70s durin...
recommendation
“Best of” lists considered not useful
I saw this story today.
Death in Veracruz, by Héctor Aguilar Camín
As part of my continuing test of Scribd’s subscription ebooks service, I stumbled on Héctor Aguilar Camín’s Death in Veracruz. Set in the ‘60s and ‘70s durin...
world-war-ii
The Girl from Venice, by Martin Cruz Smith
From it’s evocative cover to its low key, upbeat ending, The Girl From Venice is an enjoyable, surprisingly romantic outing from Martin Cruz Smith.
Spies of the Balkans, by Alan Furst
Alan Furst is the master of the historical spy novel, particularly the era just before World War II erupts. In Spies of the Balkans, he takes on, well, the B...
hackathons
Back to Top ↑ernest-hemingway
Hemingway in Cuba
So, I’m planning on going to see Papa Hemingway in Cuba this weekend. I was introduced to the topic of Hemingway in Cuba through the wonderful novel The Croo...
jazz
Song of the Exile, by Kiana Davenport
Song of the Exile is an extraordinary, powerful, heartbreaking novel. It follows the lives of Keo, a native Hawaiian who burns to play jazz, and Sunny, a Kor...
So you want to learn about Jazz…
The best way to learn about jazz is to listen to jazz. That said, put some jazz on your playlist WHILE you read some books about jazz.
the-hawaii-project
Adding books to The Hawaii Project
The Hawaii Project finds great books you’d never find on your own. We do that by crawling a curated set of the “bookish” web and seeing what books people are...
interview
Recently we were interviewed by the inimitable Justine Espiritu for ThinkTech HI.
Recently we were interviewed by the inimitable Justine Espiritu for ThinkTech HI. We talked The Hawaii Project, Books & Spirits, and other fun stuff. Hav...
book-recommendations
“Best of” lists considered not useful
I saw this story today.
chatbots
Amazon Alexa book recommender
Today marks our 2nd foray into voice-driven book recommendations. Today we’re releasing an Alexa Skill for book recommendations, powered by The Hawaii Projec...
gifts
Find me a gift, Quick!!
Few things make better gifts than a thoughtfully chosen, personalized book.
writing
Burning the Days, by James Salter
I recently reviewed the books I read last year. Some great stuff, but also too much “bookish junk food”. I’m committed to reading better this year.
The Knowledge, by Steven Pressfield
You probably know Pressfield as the author of Gates of Fire. Or maybe The Legend of Bagger Vance. Or maybe The War of Art. All amazing works.
science-fiction
Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Justice was the “it” book of science fiction in 2013. It won the 2014 Hugo, the Nebula, the Arthur C. Clarke, the Locus, and other awards. The list...
apps
Whoa. Shortlisted for BookTech Company of the Year!
Wow. The Bookseller has shortlisted us for BookTech Company of the Year! Kinda surprising actually! Very excited. We’ll be competing in the finals at the Fut...
literacy
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The limits of Social Discovery
This is the second post in our continuing series on how and why The Hawaii Project recommends great books, and more broadly the key ingredients in a good dis...
archaeology
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Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Tl/DR: If you liked Gorky Park or anything by Martin Cruz Smith, read Child 44.
design
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Scoundrel, by Bernard Cornwell
As part of my continuing experiment with Scribd’s ebook subscription service, I stumbled upon Scoundrel, by one of my favorite authors, Bernard Cornwell. I k...
media
Hybrid and non-traditional Books
One of the topics at the upcoming CODEX Hackathon (which The Hawaii Project is sponsoring and helping organize) is the future of books.
storytelling
Hybrid and non-traditional Books
One of the topics at the upcoming CODEX Hackathon (which The Hawaii Project is sponsoring and helping organize) is the future of books.
subscription
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Another nail in the coffin of subscription book reading
Electric Literature reports:
2016-election
Election Year Books
I was in a Barnes & Noble the other day, and noticed something interesting.
politics
Election Year Books
I was in a Barnes & Noble the other day, and noticed something interesting.
basketball
March Madness Books
Are you watching March Madness?
march-madness
March Madness Books
Are you watching March Madness?
utah
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Adding books to The Hawaii Project
The Hawaii Project finds great books you’d never find on your own. We do that by crawling a curated set of the “bookish” web and seeing what books people are...
literature
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Kika the Book Cat
We’re considering a new mascot here at The Hawaii Project.
boston
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Smuggler’s Cove, Cocktails and Tiki
You know we love a good book here at The Hawaii Project.
women
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How to find Free Books
Everyone loves to read. But books can be expensive! Here are some great ways to read books for free.
pokemon
whitefox publishing, and why books are like Pokemon Go!
As part of our ongoing series of interviews with authors and folks from the publishing word, we had a chance to catch up with John Bond, the CEO of whitefox ...
fishing
The Girl from Venice, by Martin Cruz Smith
From it’s evocative cover to its low key, upbeat ending, The Girl From Venice is an enjoyable, surprisingly romantic outing from Martin Cruz Smith.
italy
The Girl from Venice, by Martin Cruz Smith
From it’s evocative cover to its low key, upbeat ending, The Girl From Venice is an enjoyable, surprisingly romantic outing from Martin Cruz Smith.
urban-fantasy
A Conversation with Alexia Chamberlynn
As part of our author profile series, we had a chance to catch up with Alexia Chamberlynn, author of Martinis with the Devil, Whiskey with Angelfire and Blac...
culture
A Conversation with Jim Fusilli, author of CRIME + MUSIC: Twenty Stories of Music-Themed Noir
As I’ve previously written, Books & Music go together so naturally it’s hard to imagine them separately. But that pairing is usually implicit. So it’s a ...
noir
Black Sails, Disco Inferno
(I am not making this up) A book premised on a 1970s, disco-laden Noir retelling of the medieval Tristan and Isolde legend. Sign me up.
biography
The Pigeon Tunnel, by John Le Carré
I recently finished The Pigeon Tunnel, the ‘autobiography’ of David Cornwell, aka John Le Carré, the well known writer of espionage novels.
john-le-carre
The Pigeon Tunnel, by John Le Carré
I recently finished The Pigeon Tunnel, the ‘autobiography’ of David Cornwell, aka John Le Carré, the well known writer of espionage novels.
gift-guide
Find me a gift, Quick!!
Few things make better gifts than a thoughtfully chosen, personalized book.
creativity
The Knowledge, by Steven Pressfield
You probably know Pressfield as the author of Gates of Fire. Or maybe The Legend of Bagger Vance. Or maybe The War of Art. All amazing works.
2016
My year in reading, 2016
The irony of building a book discovery web site is that my TBR pile gets increasingly huge (~300 books and counting), while I have increasingly less time to ...
alexa
Amazon Alexa book recommender
Today marks our 2nd foray into voice-driven book recommendations. Today we’re releasing an Alexa Skill for book recommendations, powered by The Hawaii Projec...
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Amazon Alexa book recommender
Today marks our 2nd foray into voice-driven book recommendations. Today we’re releasing an Alexa Skill for book recommendations, powered by The Hawaii Projec...
marcus-aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
I have taken to reading a few pages of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations every morning as an antidote for all the everything going on (not just, or even foremost,...
self-improvement
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
I have taken to reading a few pages of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations every morning as an antidote for all the everything going on (not just, or even foremost,...
stoicism
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
I have taken to reading a few pages of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations every morning as an antidote for all the everything going on (not just, or even foremost,...
drug-war
Some Rise by Sin, by Philip Caputo
Philip Caputo has written some masterpieces of people and cultures in conflict. Best known perhaps for A Rumor of War, his Vietnam novel, I was first exposed...
drones
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Reading Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War with Bookship
My mother passed last year from complications due to ALS. She was unfailingly in good spirits during her battle with the disease, even knowing it was a terri...
new-years-resolutions
Read more books with friends in 2018
A great new year’s resolution is to read more/better books, especially in today’s age of distraction. I made a mobile app called Bookship that helps you read...
pitching
How to sound spontaneous when you pitch
Bookship was very fortunate to be selected by The Bookseller as one of six candidates for BookTech Company of the Year. Super exciting; great validation; gre...
kindle
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A little North Atlantic book excursion
I’ve always had a bit of what W.H. Auden called “The Northern Thing”. So imagine my delight when I discovered a book featuring a Boston detective (I live par...
nordic-noir
A little North Atlantic book excursion
I’ve always had a bit of what W.H. Auden called “The Northern Thing”. So imagine my delight when I discovered a book featuring a Boston detective (I live par...
tolkien
A little North Atlantic book excursion
I’ve always had a bit of what W.H. Auden called “The Northern Thing”. So imagine my delight when I discovered a book featuring a Boston detective (I live par...
tbr
Keep your Reading List on Bookship
Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family co-workers or book club.
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A guest post from Bookaholic Belle
Here at Bookship, we love book bloggers. They spend so much time and energy writing about their book discoveries, helping all of us find better books to read...
social-media
My year in reading, 2018
7 minute read
Bookship comes to the browser
1 minute read
Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family and co-workers. It’s great for sharing thoughts, comments, photos ...
Read more books with friends in 2018
less than 1 minute read
A great new year’s resolution is to read more/better books, especially in today’s age of distraction. I made a mobile app called Bookship that helps you read...
Reading Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War with Bookship
8 minute read
My mother passed last year from complications due to ALS. She was unfailingly in good spirits during her battle with the disease, even knowing it was a terri...
Announcing Bookship, a social reading app
2 minute read
Social Reading
2 minute read
Reading a book? $9.99 or so. Reading a book with a friend? Priceless.
The limits of Social Discovery
4 minute read
This is the second post in our continuing series on how and why The Hawaii Project recommends great books, and more broadly the key ingredients in a good dis...