Books & Brews at Proof Social Club 🚡

Our monthly drop-in for drinks, pasta, books, and easygoing company is back.

Unlike our standard quiet-reading sessions, this one has no agenda. Show up whenever, grab a mocktail or a cocktail, dig into some food, and read at your own speed. Want to chat about what you’re currently reading instead? That works too.

Book exchange table: Bring a title or two you’re ready to pass along, or grab something new off the stack.

Wednesday, August 26 | 6:00 until whenever.

Proof Social Club (Fort Street Mall at Chaplain Lane) 🏢

Come hang out and unwind. 🖤

Need directions or a walking buddy to or from your car or bus stop? Text Mitchell at 830-255-7423 and we’ll work it out! 🚙

HI! THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED!

Gina is feeling unwell, so we have to move this to sometime in September.

Please renew your library loans and hang on to your notations and annotations! We look forward to having this conversation when Gina’s feeling well and we can book the room again.

If this means you may be able to join us (more reading time, a better date, or whatever), join Gina’s email list at the link.

Our book discussion with Gina is Sunday at 4:30 at the Aina Haina library, in the meeting room. If you haven’t received the details via email from Gina, please drop a comment and we’ll make sure you get them!

The library will be closed, but the meeting room will be open. Come around the building on the right.

Gina is keeping an eye on the weather, so if you plan to participate, please make sure you’re on her mailing list at bit.ly/Empire-Aug2026. We will also share here if there are any changes!

We’re back at Bottleheads in Hawaii Kai!

Bring something to read, and maybe bring a friend!

🔹 Saturday, August 22
🔹 11 to 1
🏨 Bottleheads Hawaii Kai (Koko Marina; 7192 Kalanianaʻole Hwy)
🎟️ $10 reservation fee required on their website.

Your reservation ticket includes a mimosa to sip while you read. If they have the ʻulu hummus sampler that day, get that!

Grab your book, secure your spot online, and we will see you by the water!

Stay safe and dry, book sharks!

Groove is in the heart, and peace is in the pages, fam. Turn down the volume and crank up the quiet—it’s the second Thursday of the month, and Honolulu Silent Book Club is dropping the needle on another low-key night! 🚡

Slide into Kahala Mall from 6 to 8. Track down the big round table right outside Whole Foods. Your visual beacon: two hippos doing the hustle on top of an Emily Henry novel. Spot the hippos, spot your crew. 🛝

Got a stack collecting dust on your nightstand? Throw down at the book exchange table. Swap a couple, grab a couple, or just browse. Zero rules, pure good vibrations. 🟨

Park the rig for free. Grab a bite if you’re feeling it (Whole Foods ‘za gets plenty of love), but hanging out won’t cost you –save that dime for the jukebox, mama. 🏦

The playlist:

Warm-up chat

Quick photo for the album (totally optional)

Sixty solid minutes of uninterrupted reading

Wrap it up, keep chatting, or stay lost in your chapter 🖤

Paperbacks, e-readers, graphic novels, audiobooks—we play all formats here.

Lost in the mall parking lot? Need a ride back to the pad? Want to hear a terrible joke? Ring Mitchell’s hitline at 830-255-7423 (text preferred!). 🛺

Keep reading, keep grooving. See you under the quiet lights! 🟦

Honolulu Vibes Club, more like. It’s Birria & Books with Baron!

Fort Ruger Park (“Triangle Park”) Saturday, August 8, 11 to 1.

Bring something to read, something to sit upon, something to block UV rays, something to sip on, and all your mellow bookish vibes.

The Dos Jefes taco truck will be parked nearby if you want to grab some yummies, or you can unpack your own snacks.

Fort Ruger Park, under the shade trees. Look for Baron on a blue blanket near the truck.

Free street parking along Kahala Ave, Diamond Head Rd, and Paikau St.

The park has no restrooms! Plan for a quick five-minute drive to Kilauea Park or Kapiolani Community College if needed.

Come for the food, stay for the pages, or vice versa. See you Saturday. 🖤

It’s one of the most photogenic buildings in Honolulu, with its columns and courtyard and whatever you call those second-floor indoor lanais.

But views like these are breathtaking too, especially because of what these shelves hold. It’s the Language, Literature, and History section, where all the big, important stuff of life is. Love and war, life and death, good and evil, Nikon and Canon.

And our host, Emily. 🙂

Thursday, August 6
5:00 to 6:50
The Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature, and History section

Enter the building, go to the left wing and head straight back. You’ll find Emily and your book-loving friends.

Mix, mingle, and chat! We’ll do some quick voluntary photos to show off what everyone is reading, then read quietly for a blissful hour.

The library closes at 7, so come a little early if you’d like to browse and browse and browse and browse.

Parking: Metered spots are available all around the library. Street parking’s free at 6:00.

The Iolani Palace lot is super close and secure. It also becomes free at 6:00, when they shut the gate. If you need to bail before 7:00, just flag down a security guard and they’ll let you out.

Forget your book? No sweat! You’re in a giant building filled with them. Grab something off the shelf and maybe even take a new friend home with your library card.

We can’t wait to read with you. So bring a friend! The more the merrier!

All 60 of our spots are spoken for! Thank you so much for your excitement! If you missed out this time, we still have eight more get-togethers this month!

We can’t wait to read with you today at 4!