Welcome to Huki Links – a biweekly post highlighting some of our favorite literary links and more from across the ‘net!
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[gn_divider /]Links for the period of September 12, 2013 – September 24, 2013
Self Love
-Our own Misty reviews Traveler by David Cheever for the Star-Advertiser.
Hawaii Literary
-Hawaii State Library boosts ebooks with big Library Read Program.
-A review of The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata.
-A review of This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila.
-A brief review of Mark Panek’s brilliant Hawaiʻi.
-20 years later we’re still talking about The Price of Paradise.
-You can get Tyler Miranda’s Ewa Which Way on your Kindle now.
-Uncivilized Books to publish Sam Alden’s “Hawaii 1997″
-Fallout Movie is based on Robert Barclay’s novel Melal. Here’s the Facebook page.
-History association honors Hilo author.
-New book alert: Voices from the Canefields by Franklin Odo.
General Literary
-Lynda Barry: The 20 Stages of Reading.
-What classic kids’ books are really about.
-The dirty etymology of 9 everyday words.
-Thirty “guilty pleasure” books that are in fact, awesome.
-James Bond is back, and author William Boyd says he wants a relationship.
–Why these famous authors write, and why you should.
–Librarian fired for actually getting kid to read.
–10 Reasons Nonreaders Don’t Read – and How to Change Their Minds.
–11 Scrumdiddlyumptious Facts about Roald Dahl.
Non-Lit Links
-Hawaii Molasses Spill Pipe Had Leak 1 Year Before, Matson Knew. (HI News)
-Way more than you ever wanted to know about Animaniacs. (Animation)
–Honolulu Beerworks: opening a craft brewery, part one. (Beer)
–Behold, the Moon! (Science)
-A 30-second video tribute to the greatest closer the game has ever seen. (Baseball)
-“Beatles vs. Stones”: What fueled rock’s greatest rivalry (Music)
-wait but why: Putting Time in Perspective. (Science)
–Six Constitutional Amendments that didn’t make the cut. (History)
-Breaking Bad is ending this week. Here’s the stuff you may have missed. And here’s an answer to how much science does BB get right.
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