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]Self-Love
-M.I.A. Summer Writing Sessions. What’re you waiting for, sign up! [HBB]
Hawaii Literary
-Birds of Paradise Book Reading and Signing by Christine Kitano. [Urban Oahu – HNN]
-Professional Women’s Network is hosting a luncheon at the Oahu Country Club with author Kaui Hart Hemmings. Early bird fees until July 16. [PWNHawaii]
-Capturing ‘Georgia in Hawaii’ plus interview with the illustrator, Yuyi Morales. [Kirkus Reviews]
-Hearing your writing voice in stillness. By Big Island author Darien Gee. [North Hawaii News]
-Reading Rainbows: At the Mānoa Public Library, the future is now. [Honolulu Weekly]
-A culture’s family album: Hawaiian in Los Angeles. [Examiner]
-Cover Contest for Soon to be Released Book by Kauai Author, Monika Mira. [Kauai Family Travel]
-Monday Muse: Hawaii’s Poet Laureate. Kealoha. [Writing Without Paper]
–Experience Pipeline (An Interactive Adventure Book). Only $0.99 for your Kindle. [Amazon]
-Hawaiian History and Historic Observations. Includes some classic texts in HTML. [Donch]
-Book Announcement: Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girl’s Culture in Japan. [Shinpai Deshou]
-New religions in the land of the rising sun. Review of Celebrity Gods: New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan. [Japan Times]
General Literary
-What to Read at the Beach, or: Get Your Red-Hot Summer Trash Right Here! [NYT: The 6th Floor]
-Interactive Lord of the Rings timeline. [LOTRProject]
-10 Quintessentially American Novels. [Flavorwire]
-Fans React to J.K. Rowling Book Cover: What Do You Think? [Mashable]
-17 Famous Literary Characters Almost Named Something Else. [mental_floss]
-Karen Thompson Walker’s Favorite ‘What If?’ Books: Book Bag. [The Daily Beast]
-Writing in a Vacuum: Why Community is Essential to Writers. [The Swivet]
-This abandoned Walmart has been reclaimed as a public library. [grist]
-Unusual Words Used to Make Bold Graphics. [Complex]
-The 20 Most Beautiful Children’s Books of All Time. [Flavorwire]
-Intermission: Bookmark Surfs the Wave of Its Life (Video). [GOOD]
-E-books offer much-needed way to make writing pay. [SF Gate]
-Readers can’t survive on ebooks alone, says author Richard Russo. [West Hawaii Today]
-Reviewing the Reviews: Reading all the media commentary on her book in one night, a journalist discovers something unsettling but valuable. [Publishers Weekly]
-How NOT to get a job at a bookstore. [Bookshelvers Anonymous]
-A whole new way of reading a bedtime story! [Facebook]
Non-Literary Links
-Music lover John Book writes a fantastic post about his five favorite Hawaiian albums. [Aloha Got Soul]
-Dropping Knowledge: Hawaiian Shirts. [GQ]
-Flower Children on the North Shore of Kauai. [Smithsonian]
-Lawson Station opens in Hawaii! The famous Japanese convenience store has opened their first conbini in the U.S. [nonstop honolulu]
-The 25 Best Apps of 2012 So Far. [Complex]
-LIFE celebrates the Bikini. [LIFE]
-Human skin tones classified as Pantone colors. [io9]
-The Hawaii Shakespeare Festival Lineup Announced. [Broadway World]
-The Phantom Island of Brazil. [big think]
-Daily Dose from Dr. Odd: Superbly Unusual and Beautiful Baseball Portraits. [Ptak Science Books]
-Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Grass Hut open for visitors at The Salvation Army in Hawaii. [The Salvation Army]
-The early 1900s version of Photoshop involved lots of giant rabbits and corn. [io9]
-Children’s author awarded £250,000 after botched laser eye surgery left her with blurred vision. [Daily Mail]
-Vintage College Football Conference “Family Portraits” [imgur] [gn_divider]
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