Month: April 2018
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NoMad Hotel and NoMad Restaurant
We were fortunate enough to win a charity auction item for a bespoke dinner at the New York City restaurant, NoMad, and decided to stay at the NoMad hotel. This is not our usual haunt when we visit New York City—the Upper East Side is more the style to which we’d like to become accustomed,…
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Book review: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss My rating: 5 of 5 stars I rarely give a book 5 stars, but the rating is well-deserved for this one. Recommended by Lin-Manuel Miranda via my daughter (who’s not much of a fantasy reader but who also loved it), this is the first volume of a…
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Spring Break 2018: Honolulu, where else?
If it seems like we go to Honolulu quite a bit, it may be because we have. However, this was our first trip there as a family in 2018. (Note how I carefully defined the parameters just now.) We were fortunate that the kids shared a spring break this year, and they decided to opt…
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A Long-Time Favorite: Chef Mavro (Honolulu)
It has been a while since I last posted photos of a dinner at Chef Mavro, one of our favorite restaurants. The restaurant has redone its menu a bit, allowing guests to choose from a selection of small plates or to embark on a 9 course Bataan death march of a tasting menu. We’ve done…
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Book review: A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas My rating: 4 of 5 stars The premise for this series is very interesting: it posits that Sherlock Holmes is actually a woman, Charlotte Holmes. In this first of a series, Charlotte deliberately loses her virginity in order to carve out a life as an independent woman.…
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Book review: Bonfire Night by Deanna Raybourn
Bonfire Night by Deanna Raybourn My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the last in the Lady Julia Grey series, and I have been putting off reading it because I don’t want the series to end. I gave the novella 4 stars but would probably more honestly give it somewhere between 3 and 3.5…