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A fascinating book, but not very fun to read. I wanted to know about Lili‘u‘s life based on the sources, not what the author conjectured. I wanted to better understand how the monarchy fell. I did not get what I wanted. This is a descent history of Hawaii-everyone who goes to Hawaii would benefit from reading it. Needs intext citations! End notes are NOT enough.
2/5 stars. Read to learn more about Hawaiian history during the sugar rush.

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From my #TBR for todays #Queen #King #QueenKing prompt. The tagged book‘s subtitle is “Hawaii‘s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America‘s First Imperial Adventure.” One of these days I will get to each of these! 📚📚📚

I drove over to Costco today and was deeply disappointed at their pitiful book selection, from which I bought zero. But the local indie came through and here‘s my small #bookhaul! I know the picture isn‘t great, but if I try to adjust it, I just get a black square, so sorry about that!

I began reading this book yesterday after watching Hawaii's Last Queen by American Experience. I was crushed to learn that while in exile she was allowed no books during her imprisonment. For such an educated woman, I imagine this was almost like torture. She did continue to write and compose.

Day13 #readjanuary #setinyrcity I feel like I've shown most of my books set in Honolulu/Oahu on Litsy but here's two nonfiction Hawaii history books. I'm currently listening to 'Countdown to Pearl Harbor' on Overdrive (although I'm about an hour in & starting to think print would work better for me). 'Lost Kingdom'-about Lili'uokalani, the last queen & Hawaii's annexation is in my Kindle TBR stack. I like learning all I can about the history here.

An eye-opening history of the last days of the Kingdom of Hawaii. If everyone who visited Hawaii today had read this, it would be a Good Thing.