Welcome to Huki Links – highlighting some of our favorite literary links and more over the past week from across the ‘net! For more about Huki-Links, check out our inaugural post.
The best part of the “huki” is that we all pull together, if you find any fun or interesting book related links/articles please feel free to share them via comments or contact us!
[gn_divider]Links covering the week of January 30 – February 6, 2012
Self Love
-The Lost Art of Letter Writing: The Month of Letters Challenge. If you tell Misty now, she’ll write you a finely executed letter with pretty stationery! [Hawaiʻi Book Blog]
-New Book: Feng Shui for Hawaiʻi’s Gardens. [HBB]
-Check out this excellent ‘Evolution’ t-shirt at our shop! [HBB Shop]
Hawaiʻi Literary
-Big Island! Check out UH Hilo’s Poetry & Blues project events happening this Wednesday (Feb. 8) and Friday (Feb. 10). [HI Art Magazine]
-Q&A with local author Toby Neal about her new novel Blood Orchids. [Barnes & Noble]
-Great blog post where local writer Gail M. Baugniet talks about the Makiki Community Library and their upcoming book sale this weekend. [Gail M Baugniet]
-The crew at Nonstop Honolulu go to KCC to talk with chefs and make some food from new cookbook, A Sweet Dash of Aloha. [Nonstop Honolulu]
-Cantrell continues series w/ A Game of Lies and a few more books and news. [West Hawaii Today]
-Review of ‘Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre’ show at Kumu Kahua Theatre. Play is based on the book of the same name by Lois-Ann Yamanaka. [Enter Offstage]
-Recent review of a commonly read book set in Hawaiʻi: Molokaʻi by Alan Brennert. [Mary Beth’s Book Review]
-Another nice and long review of Molokaʻi by Alan Brennert. [Jess Witkin’s Happiness Project]
-A book review of Dark Mind by Jennifer Chase. About a serial killer terrorizing young women in Hawaii. [blogcritics]
-On Mountains. Article on Korean Mountain Culture, but draws references from Gary Pak’s Korean-Hawaiian novel A Ricepaper Airplane. [HuffPost Arts]
-A few weeks old that I missed: Outskirts Press publishes Lost Twain: A Novel of Hawaii by Kate H. Winter. [Hawaii 24/7]
-Story of three whales splashes onto screens. Based on a book, Big Miracle, by Suzanne Kita and illustrator Steve Sundram. [KHON2]
-LIS program nationally recognized. [Hawaii Library Association]
General Literary
-World Book Night is coming on April 23, 2012! [World Book Night]
-A hilarious letter written by Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little author E.B. White to the ASCPA regarding his “harboring” an unlicensed dog. [Letters of Note]
-Dickens admirers mark bicentenary. [CNN]
-Publishers Sour on Tablet as Reading Platform, Survey Says. [Digital Book World]
-Rebecca Walker’s ‘Black Cool’ Promotes the Non-Material Side of Black Culture. Walker currently lives in Hawaiʻi. [The Daily Beast]
-The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores. [Flavorwire]
-Quote of the Day: How John Hodgman learned to love George R.R. Martin. [io9]
-The Big Reasons Indie Authors Aren’t Taken Seriously. [HuffPost Books]
-Bookish Body Art: Literary Tattoos. [Booklicious]
-10 of the best books set in Tokyo, Japan. [the guardian]
Off Topic Fun & Interests
-You know you watched it! But if you didn’t, here are the highlights from the epic Puppy Bowl VIII! [Animal Planet]
-Lindsey Stirling is at it again. First she dropped an epic Legend of Zelda violin medley video. She continues this series with a gorgeously shot (in New Zealand!) video for her Lord of the Rings violin medley. [Flavorwire]
-Afterthoughts: Remembering John. Honolulu will not be the same without Heckathorn. [HONOLULU Magazine]
-Get the latest on Hawaiʻi’s favorite show by reading Wendie Burbridge’s Five-0 Redux. [PULSE]
-What Does the Movie “The Descendants” Tell About Hawaiʻi Now? [The Maui News]
-Another one I missed: The Descendants author Kaui Hart Hemmings writes an article on why George Clooney was always her ideal lead for the film adaptation. [The Guardian]
-“Catching Fire” will shoot in Hawaii and be awesome, says Jennifer Lawrence. [IFC]
-For Misty – ‘Downton Abbey’: 10 facts about the show’s real castle. [LA Times]
-OK Go ‘Play’ 1,000 Instruments With a Car in Stunning New Video. [Mashable]
-Re-creating Noah’s Ark, with lizards, for science! [io9]
-Potentially Habitable Planet Found Orbiting Nearby Star. Found by our own University of Hawaiʻi. [SpaceRef]
-FAN ART: Famous actors re-imagined as Marvel superheroes. Arnold as Colossus. Harvey Keitel as Wolverine! Next time, we need Donald Glover as Spiderman… [ComicBookMovie]
Parting Shot
Super Bowl MVP - #10 Eli Manning
Please allow me one more sports indulgence photo as my childhood team, the New York Football Giants, are once again the Super Bowl Champions. Go Big Blue! This totally made my week.
Now…I’m still waiting for that New York Knicks NBA title to happen in my lifetime.
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