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 February 15 – 20, 2012*
Self-Love
-We do a keiki book review! This one is for Jenniffer Welliver’s picture book, That’s NOT What Grandpas Are For, illustrated by Stacy Comer. [Hawaiʻi Book Blog]
-We also review a new book out by local feng shui expert Clear Englebert entitled Feng Shui for Hawaiʻi Gardens. [HBB]
Hawaii Literary
-Sunrise talks with Julia Flynn-Siler, the author of a new national book, Lost Kingdom Hawaii’s Last Queen, The Sugar Kings and America’s First Imperial Adventure. This is a video interview. [Hawaii News Now]
-Hollywood ate my novel: Novelists reveal what it’s like to have their book turned into a movie. First up: Kaui Hart Hemmings. [The Independent]
-Kailua Poet Garners HPU’s James M. Vaughan Award. [Midweek]
-Coming Soon: Double Rainbow Paina Book Signing: benefitting Hawaii Literacy! [Facebook]
-If you haven’t seen it yet, the Hawaii State Public Library got a snazzy new redesign! Like it? Love it? [LibrariesHawaii.org]
-Check out this video of a reading by author Frances H. Kakugawa. She reads from her new memoir, KAPOHO: Memoir of a Modern Pompeii. [YouTube]
-Congratulations to Chef Alan Wong and Watermark Publishing. Their book, The Blue Tomato, is a 2012 IACP Award finalist in the Chefs and Restaurants category. [Eater]
-Video Interview with Kaui Hart Hemmings. [TV Guide]
General Literary
-Charts and Diagrams Drawn by Famous Authors. [Flavorwire]
-Famous Authors’ Unlikely Obsessions. [Flavorwire]
-Author publishes book as Facebook Photo Album. [GalleyCat]
-friday feast: the president’s stuck in the bathtub by susan katz and robert neubecker. [Jama’s Alphabet Soup]
-What Would Agatha Christie have thought of Downton Abbey? [Book Club Girl]
-Sh*t Book Reviewers Say. [YouTube]
-The Hunger Games gets Lana Del Rey parody. [GalleyCat]
-Next Time, Try ‘Unflagging’. [New York Times]
Non-Literary Links
-Dog Football! Which Breeds Are Best Suited For The Gridiron? [SB Nation]
-Jay-Z’s ’99 Problems’ Recreated With Movie Clips. [UPROXX]
-Today (Monday), would have been Kurt Cobain’s 45th birthday. Here are ’20 Things You Didn’t Know About Kurt Cobain.’ [Pigeon and Planes]
-First off, I am a pre-Linsanity Knicks fan. So, welcome to the bandwagon. The puns and press have gotten a bit out of hand, but here’s a collage of every Jeremy Lin pun headline. [Best Week Ever]
-Also, a video interview with Jeremy Lin from Knicks Now if you actually are into basketball. [Knicks Now]
-Only just saw this now: New York City in 1999… in HD! Sad to see the WTC, but really cool to see pre-9/11 New York in High Def. [YouTube]
-They Might Be Giants sing a song about my favorite President. [YouTube]
-Presidents Day reality check: Abraham Lincoln was robbed. [LA Times]
-Abraham Lincoln art. [Tumblr]
-What It’s Like Being President, Metaphorically Speaking by Marco Kaye. [McSweeney]
-A look at presidents and their pets over the years. [Cleveland.com]
-For Presidents’ Day 2012, a list of presidential trivia, factoids and miscellany. [All Voices] [gn_divider]
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*some exceptions to the date range may apply
