Winter Books 2009
Image: Manny Pangilinan
The rain season arrived this week, just in time to save our Winter Books issue from hitting the streets in 90-degree weather. Suddenly, it’s curl-up-under-a-blanket time, the best time of all for books. As we always do, we’ve focused this year on books of local interest, those written locally and abroad that speak to Hawaii and to its people. Our shelves are little bit leaner this year, owing no dobut to the effects of a tough economy on publishers big and small, but we’ve found more than a few treasures to satisfy your cool-weather cravings. And speaking of treasure, we start off this year with a hunt for some of Hawaii’s rarest tomes, one that takes us from the state archive just down the street to a bookshop on the other side of the world. Enjoy.
