Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 2, 1 February 1990 — Reading and discussion series scheduled by military and state libraries during 1990 [ARTICLE]

Reading and discussion series scheduled by military and state libraries during 1990

Eleven public libraries in the Hawai'i State Publie Library System and two O'ahu military libraries will host "Let's Talk About It" reading and discussion sessions for the 1990 winter and spring schedule. Nancy A. Mower, co-director of the project with Suzanne Kosanke, said there will be sessions on all islands. Themes will include romantic love, women's autobiography, Hawai'i and the Pacific, the family and ethnicity. Books on all the themes may be borrowed from any library. "Let's Talk About It" is a program for book lovers sponsored by the Hawai'i Library Association and HSPLS with funding from the Hawai'i Committee for the Humanities, Programs normally run two hours and anyone is weleome to participate. O'AHU Aiea Public Library Thursday, 7:30-9:3P p.m. Theme: same as Kailua-Kona Topics are same as Kailua-Kona but on these dates: Sept. 20, Oct. 4, Oct. 18, Nov. 1, Nov. 15. Kailua Public Library Tuesdays 7-9 p.m. Theme: same as above Topics are same but on these dates: Oct. 2, Oct. 16, Oct. 30, Nov. 13 and Nov. 27. Aina Haina Public Library Mondays, 11 a.m.-l p.m. Theme: "The Journey Inward: Women's Autobiography" Oct. 15 — One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty. Oct. 29 — Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Steward. Nov. 5 — Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston. Nov. 19 — My Life by Isadora Duncan. Dec. 3 — Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead. MAUI COUNTY Molokai Public Library Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. Theme: same as Wai'anae Library Topics are same but on these dates: Oct. 10, Oct. 24, Nov. 7, Nov. 21 and Dec. 5. Hana Public and School Library Hana will be doing Hawai'i Through Hawai'i Eyes from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Mondays, beginning March 5. Other dates are March 19, April 2, 16 and 30. KAUA'l Lihue Public Library Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon Theme: "Being Ethnic, Becoming American: Struggles, Successes, Symbols" Feb. 24 — Bless Me, Ulhma by Rudolfo A. Anaya. March 10 — Go Tell lt on the Mountain by James Baldwin. March 24 — Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. April 7 — The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday. April 21 — Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston. Koloa Public Library Theme: "Lure of the Pacific" Topics are the same as for Wai'anae and Moloka'i from 6:30-8:30 Monday evenings. Feb. 12 and 26 and March 12 and 19.

HAWAI'I Kailua-Kona Public Library Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Theme: "Hawai'i Through Hawai'i Eyes" Feb. 1 — The Polynesian Family System in Ka'u, Hawai'i, By E.S. Craighill Handy and Mary Kawena Pukui. Feb. 15 — The Legends and Myths of Hawai'i: The Fables and Folk-lore of a Strange People by His Hawaiian Majesty King David Kalakaua. March 1 — Hawai'i: Islander under the Influence by Joel J. Kent. March 15 — The Last Village in Kona by Mason Altiery. March 29 — Ho'i Ho'i Hou: A Tribute to George Helm and Kimo Mitchell, edited by Rodney Morales; and Malama, Hawaiian Land and Water, edited by Dana Naone Hall. Hilo Public Library Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. Theme: same as Kailua-Kona Topics are same as at Kailua-Kona but on these dates: March 7 and 21, Apnl 4 and 18 and May2. Thelma Parker Public Library Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon Theme: "Family: The Way We Were, The Way We Are" April 7 — This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig. April 21 — A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry; also, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. May 5 — Ordinary People by Judith Guest. May 19 — Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories, edited by James Moffett and Kenneth McElheny. The Stone Boy by Gina

Berriault; A & P by John Updike; The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever. Wai'anae Public Library Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Theme: "Lure of the Pacific" Feb. 5 — Shoal of Time by Gavan Daws. Feb. 12 — Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen Liliu'okalani, Queen of Hawai'i. Feb. 26 — Kaaawa by O.A. Bushnell. Fort Shafter Library Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Theme: "Rebirth of a Nation: Nationalism and the Civil War" Feb. 7 — Unele Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Feb. 21 — Ordeal by Fire, Volume II: The Civil War by James M. McPherson. March 7 — Reconstruction: After the Civil War by John Hope Franklin. March 21 — The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries edited by C. Vann Woodward. Aliamanu Military Library Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-l p.m. Theme: "Destruction or Redemption: Images of Romantic Love" Feb. 6 — Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Feb. 20 — The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. March 6 — The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. March 20 — Morgan's Passing by Anne Ty!er. April 3 — A Mother and Two Daughters by Gail Godwin.