Weekly Winners and Readers' Choices

We have winners from last week's blogs - Alba, May, and Kim H win a book choice from my convention stash!


And the readers' choices for Jane's photos!

Jane the silhouette
at Bellows Beach

Jane the doll with the
Kissing Couple

Jane returns to writing until July 14, where she'll make a guest appearance at the Hickam Library for the Summer Reading Program Finale.   This coming week, I'll post pictures from our recent trip to Kaua'i.


Mahalo,


Kim in Hawaii

Where will Jane goes next?

Best of Jane - Readers' Choice (continued)

The voting is still open for my pictures of Jane, the silhouette, at this link.   But I also took pictures of Jane, the doll, when the circumstances (especially the wind) didn't allow me to take a picture of the silhouette.  Tell me which picture you like best!

Jane at the Navy Boathouse
(with the fire buckets)

  

Jane with the kissing couple

Jane at the USS Missouri

Jane at Hale Makai
(House towards the Sea)

Jane hanging on to the F15.

Jane, Waikiki Beach,
and Diamond Head

Jane, Andrew, and Heiau in Kailua

Jane at Mac Nut Farm

Jane and Sherlock
at the Byodo In Temple

Jane at Boutiki Gift Shop

Jane at Hickam Harbor

Jane on Hickam Beach

One randomly selected commenter wins a book choice from my convention stash.  This giveaway is open to all readers.  Comments are open through Saturday, June 30, 10 pm in Hawaii.  I'll post the winner on Sunday, July 1.


Mahalo,


Kim in Hawaii

Jane storms the castle

Best of Jane - Readers' Choice!

For the past two months, I have posted pictures of Jane Austen, silhouette (above), and Jane Austen, doll (below) as part of Sourcebooks' promotion for ALL ROADS LEAD TO AUSTEN:


WHERE DO BOOKS TAKE YOU?

With a suitcase full of Jane Austen novels en español, Amy Elizabeth Smith set off on a yearlong Latin American adventure: a traveling book club with Jane. In six unique, unforgettable countries, she gathered book-loving new friends— taxi drivers and teachers, poets and politicians— to read Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.

Whether sharing rooster beer with Guatemalans, joining the crowd at a Mexican boxing match, feeding a horde of tame iguanas with Ecuadorean children, or tangling with argumentative booksellers in Argentina, Amy came to learn what Austen knew all along: that we're not always speaking the same language— even when we're speaking the same language.

But with true Austen instinct, she could recognize when, unexpectedly, she'd found her own Señor Darcy.

All Roads Lead to Austen celebrates the best of what we love about books and revels in the pleasure of sharing a good book— with good friends.

AROUND THE WORLD WITH JANE AUSTEN ends on Saturday, June 30.   So I ask you, readers, what is your favorite picture with the Sourcebooks' silhouette?  On Thursday, we'll do a similar vote with pictures of the doll.

Jane, David, and King Kamehameha.
Look for them on Hawaii Five O!

  

Jane with the USS Honolulu.

Jane calls a cab!

  

Jane gets a mammogram.

Jane with Uncle Sam.

Jane at Bellows Beach.

Jane wings it with the F4!

Jane roars in the engine of the F86!

  

Jane with her books at the Hickam Library.

Jane finds a coconut on Waikiki Beach.

Jane hops on a water bike!

Up close on the water bike!

Jane visits King Kamehameha
at Hickam Elementary School.

Up close with King Kamehameha.

  

Jane with the Japanese bullet hole
in the Big Barracks.

Jane and Sherlock at Turtle Bay.

Jane wants to paddle at Turtle Bay.

  

Jane views Hanauma Bay.

Jane with Buddha.

Jane at the Byodo-In Temple.

Jane at the Boutiki Gift Shop.
The shakers are scandalous!

  

Best advice for Louisa Musgrove
in PERSUASION.

Jane "embedded" at
Hickam Air Force Base.

Up close with Jane in the H.

One randomly selected commenter wins a book choice from my convention stash.  This giveaway is open to all readers.  Comments are open through Friday, June 29, 10 pm in Hawaii.  I'll enter the picture with the most votes in the Sourcebooks' contest.

Mahalo,

Kim in Hawaii

You still have time to enter the contest before the June 30 deadline.  Check out Sourcebooks' page on Facebook at this link.

  

Jane loves the ginger flower!

Jane find inspiration FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

We have a winner from last week's blogs - Mary!   Jane continues her tour of Oahu, returning to Bellows Beach!

Above are the Mokulua Islands.

Bellows offers cabins for military families.
Hale is "house" and Makai is "towards sea"
so this VIP cabin is by the sea!

  

The beach is virtually empty on school days.

Jane sits in the shade to watch the sailboats!

Who could be on the sailboat?

Marianne Dashwood?  Lydia Bennet?

It's Ann Elliot and Captain Wentworth!

   

We took the coast road home,
stopping at the Halona Lookout ....

... famous for its beach scene in
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY.

The rugged coast is inspiring ...

... and powerful!

Do you have a favorite water activity - swimming?  scuba?  sailing?  watching the waves crash onto the beach?  One randomly selected commenter from this week's blogs wins a book choice from my convention stash.  This giveaway is open to all readers.  Comments are open through Saturday, June 9, 10 pm in Hawaii.  I'll post the winner on Sunday, June 10.


Mahalo,


Kim in Hawaii

The lookout leads to Sandy Beach
which is popular with local families.