Save the Date — and save your seat!

Silent Book Club Honolulu is heading back to the hidden speakeasy at Vintage Books on Sunday, November 8, from 4 to 6 with Deb as your host!

Join us for an afternoon of quiet reading, great company, and a cozy atmosphere!

Bring your current read or start something fresh!

We have to put a cap on attendance because these events have been (by far) our best-attended.

RSVP by November 3 to ensure we can reserve a seat for you.

RSVP on Meetup.

The event description on Meetup includes info on payment, parking, and (of course) the fabulous menu!

Join us for Proof Readers Book Club, in collaboration with Proof Social Club!

We’re reading again in the cozy, inclusive space at Proof Social Club, where Fort Street Mall meets Chaplain Lane.

This month: a book-inspired costume contest! Our friend DJ will emcee the contest beginning at 6:30, and we’ll have prizes — including one for the best non-book-related costume, so wear whatever works!

As always: bring something to read, meet some book-loving friends, and have a cocktail, mocktail, or brew.

Feel free to support area businesses by bringing your own food.

We’ll have a book exchange table: bring a few, take a few, or whatever.

Text Mitchell at 830-255-7423 if you need info, if you’d like a ride home, or if you’d like company to or from your car or bus stop!

We have a few things simmering, so keep your eyes here as we get ready to serve them up!

Thank you to all our hosts and partners!

#readingalonetogether

If it rains, it rains.

Come read with us anyway. We’ll try to set up at our usual spot. Big round table at Kahala Mall in front of the Whole Foods Market.

If it’s too wet, we’ll very politely try for the tables under the eaves. Otherwise, tables in the mall!

No book exchange if it’s rainy. Yes book exchange if it’s not!

Free parking. No pressure to spend money*, but lots of food and drink options nearby.

Bring something to read! We’ll chat, take some voluntary photos, then read for an hour. Then stick around and chat some more, or keep reading, or call it a night!

6 to 8 Thursday the 8th. We can’t wait to read with you!

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* Hey, so the tables in the big seating area are the mall’s. The tables under the eaves are Whole Foods Market’s. If we end up there, consider getting a little something inside, like a bottle of mustard or ten pounds of gorgonzola. ❤️

We’re back at the Hawaii State Library Monday, October 1, in the Language, Literature, and History section.

As you enter the building, head to the left wing and go straight back. Or go right through the front lobby and straight through the courtyard to the far left corner, where you’ll see these windows to a solid hour of quiet reading time with your Honolulu Silent Book Club homies.

We’ll take some voluntary photos of our books, then chat a little about what we’re reading. Then it’s time to read!

The library closes at 7, so come a little early if you’re in a browsing-borrowing kind of mood.

Parking: metered street parking is free beginning at 6, or park in the Iolani Palace lot, which is also free after 6. Let palace security know if you want to leave before 7, when they open the gates to release the library staff!

Emily the Librarian is our host. We can’t wait to read with you!

RESCHEDULED FROM AUGUST!

October 5, Monday, 4:30 to 5.
Aina Haina Public Library

In the meeting room. The entrance is on the right side of the building, adjacent to the bank parking lot.

Gina is hosting a discussion about Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (2019). If you want to jump into an engaging conversation about some of the lesser-discussed corners of history, this one is for you 🟥.

Proof Readers Book Club
Wednesday September 30
6 to whenever

Cocktails, mocktails, and brews.
Ravioli, spaghetti, and greens.
Books, buddies, and conversation.

No formal program; just reading, chatting, and consuming. Bring something for the book exchange, or just take something home.

Make some friends where Fort Street Mall meets Chaplain Lane. Socializing (as always) is optional!

Text Mitchell at 830-255-7423 if you get lost, if you have questions, if you’d like a ride home, or if you’d like someone to walk you to or from your car or bus stop!

We’re finally on Mastodon!

Let’s follow each other there as the Fediverse verrrrrry slowly moves toward Last Platform Standing status. Content there will pretty much be the same as here, but cooler because it’s not part of (waves hands vaguely in the air) all THIS. 🙃

https://mastodon.social/@honolulusilentbookclub

Thank you so much for your enthusiasm! We’re booked for the Vintage Books event and now have a waiting list.

Please, if you’ve had a change of plans, change your RSVP status so waitlisted people may take your spot and so our friends at Vintage Books can staff appropriately.

For parking, payment, and menu info, please see the Meetup event at https://www.meetup.com/honolulu-silent-book-club/events/316392230.

Liberty (our host) can’t wait to read with you!

Monday, September 14
Kāneʻohe Public Library
5:00 to 6:30

Meet your people (including our host, Gail the Librarian) at your people’s favorite Windward space!

5:00 to 5:15: Arrive, settle in, and chat if you want to-but no pressure!). We’ll take a group photo of the books!

5:15 – 6:15: One solid, uninterrupted hour of beautiful, silent reading.

6:15 – 6:45: Share what you’re reading, trade recommendations, browse the stacks, and talk story.

The library closes at 7, so come a little early if you crave extra book time or just want to explore this long-awaited, newly renovated space.

The library’s official address is on Kamehameha Highway, but don’t try to turn in from Kamehameha Hwy. Enter from Waikalua Road, drive past the police station, and you’ll see the library’s parking lot right behind the library.

There’s also parking on the hill. You’ll see what we mean.

Please drop a note if you have accessibility questions or would like accommodation!

Bring whatever you are currently reading, or show up early and discover something on the library shelves. It’s a library!