DANA STABENOW

Tag: Return to Paradise

Pake Kokua (Hawaiian for, roughly, Chinese Helper, which really ought to read Saint).

I first read this book back in my teens, and I was in Hawaii recently and decided it was time to reread it. It has held up really well in the interim. Okay, Michener not the greatest master of the craft of writing, agreed, but he knows how to tell a story. Here he tells…

Read more Pake Kokua (Hawaiian for, roughly, Chinese Helper, which really ought to read Saint).

Allow for the fact that this is a Greatest Generation guy

I read Simon Winchester’s Pacific a few years back and found it both dour and sour. Not a keeper. So when I stumbled across a paperback copy of this book at the HPL Book and Plant Sale, I thought why not give it a try? One thing I had to keep strictly in mind was that Winchester’s…

Read more Allow for the fact that this is a Greatest Generation guy