Explore your favorite author’s favorite authors at the JASNA Hawai‘i Reading Group’s summer discussion on March 28. We will discuss Rebecca Romney’s 2025 book Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend. The Washington Post calls the book “a meditation on reading and writing, on honestyContinue reading “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf”
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The Austen Affair
The JASNA Hawai‘i Reading Group will discuss The Austen Affair on July 25, place to be determined. “Two feuding co-stars in a Jane Austen film adaptation accidentally travel back in time to the Regency Era in this “delightfully clever and riotously funny” 2025 debut novel by Madeline Bell that Macmillan Publisher calls a tribute toContinue reading “The Austen Affair”
Holoholo to Ho‘omaluhia
POSTPONED: We will visit the fourth of Honolulu’s five botanical gardens, trekking to the Windward side to explore Ho‘omaluhia, on a date to be determined, followed by lunch at a location to be determined. Email JASNAHawaiiNei@gmail.com for details. Located at 45–680 Luluku Road in Kāne’ohe, the 400-acre garden at the base of the majestic Ko‘olauContinue reading “Holoholo to Ho‘omaluhia”
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