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Bora Bora at Twilight

29 Must-Read Local Books You Won’t Want to Put Down This Summer

Here’s how to rock your hammock, if not your world, this summer. And if that’s not startling enough, we’ve got news about a new local bookstore opening.

It reads like Joan Didion on opium - Honolulu Magazine reviews The Charm Buyers.

Delighted to be on Honolulu Magazine’s Must-Reads Summer Books List!

photography: Colleen Neff

Colleen Neff was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and has lived all over the country courtesy of having a father who worked for I.B.M. She discovered a love of photography and art history at Beloit College in Wisconsin. Starting out with a pinhole camera she constructed herself, Colleen now uses a Leica D-Lux 5 as it fits perfectly into her small backpack. She currently lives in Berkeley, California, and photographs life as she walks and hikes in the Bay Area.

Reason No. 15: Some words actually look like the thing they describe.

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