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.

Sorry about the brevity of Huki-Links this week.  We are preparing for a trip out of the country and have all manner of preparations to do!  Also, this may be the last Huki-Links you’ll see for the next 2-3 weeks.  I’m not certain I’ll be able to do one while we’re away, so please keep that in mind.  Thanks for enjoying Huki-Links!

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!

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Links covering the week of September 26 – October 3, 2011*

Self Love

-Pet lover?!  Then you need to check out our review of Hawaiʻi’s Pets by Deb & Tim McGuire.  A cute book with a lot of photographic love.  [Hawaiʻi Book Blog]

-Are you a sports fan who also likes to read?  Then, you’ll love this featured t-shirt from the HBB Shop.  [HBB Shop]

Hawaiʻi Literary

-A very useful and important resource:  The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library’s Digital & Digitized Collections.  A literal wealth of history and information just a mouse-click away.  [UH Mānoa Library]

-Nice article about Lindy Shapiro who is the author of a new BeachHouse keiki book, Moon Mangoes.  [The Maui News]

-The Author’s Lament by children’s illustrator/author James Rumford.  His thoughts on the editor-author relationship.  Thanks to Jama’s Alphabet Soup for the link.  [Writing & Illustrating Books for Children by James Rumford]

-Chef Alan Wong Cooking Demonstration at Williams-Sonoma!  Find out all the details here.  [Watermark Publishing]

-Don’t forget, M.I.A.’s are moving to Mondays!  Bummer to some, joy to others.  Be sure not to miss any words; the next M.I.A. will be on Monday, October 17.  [M.I.A. blog]

-Local author Gail M. Baugniet is celebrating the release of her first mystery novel, FOR EVERY ACTION There are Consequences, with a blog tour from Oct. 2 – 21!  This week’s tour details on her blog:  [Gail M. Baugniet]

-Missed it last week, but here is Jean Toyama’s entry in the “Four Voices in Renshi: Revisiting the Massie Affair” linked poetry on Bamboo Ridge.  Scroll to the bottom of the page for the most recent poem.  [Bamboo Ridge]

-Act now until October 10:  When you purchase Victoria Kneubuhl’s new mystery novel Murder Leaves Its Mark, get the first book in the series, Murder Casts a Shadow, FREE!  [UH Press Blog]

-The Taste Hawaii Tour is coming to the San Francisco Bay Area in October, bringing authors Arnold Hiura (Kau Kau) and Chef Alan Wong (The Blue Tomato).  [Hawaiʻi Magazine]

General Literary

-Read 10 Classic Books In Under A Minute. [Huffington Post]

-The Layman’s Guide to the Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels.  An awesome flow-chart…thanks to Dawn Sakamoto for sharing!  [Slate]

-Jama takes a look at the book from one of our favorite blogs, My Milk Toof.  Required reading if you’re into cuteness and/or dentistry.  [Jama’s Alphabet Soup]

-This Tumblr highlights not the first line of the book, but the last one.  Reader, beware!  [The final sentence]

-Are Print On-Demand Books an E-book Alternative?  [The Atlantic]

-The Internet Archive has some lovely children’s books scans you can download for free.  Don’t go too crazy!  [Internet Archive]

-Sirra provides some Basic Dos and Dont’s in Query Letter Writing.  [Sirra]

-10 Children’s Books That Are Also Great For Adults.  [FlavorWire]

Off Topic Fun

-Today is Hawaii 5-0 day!  Need a refresher of last week’s episode?  Check out Wendie Burbridge’s 5-0 blog, Five-0 Redux every week after the show. #H50  [Honolulu Pulse]

-One of my favorite blogs; it’s about corporate and brand identities.  The included post this week is about the company that produces Hawaiʻi’s beloved green bottles.  [Brand New] [gn_divider]

You can catch some of these links and more by following us on Facebook and Twitter.  If you have interesting links you’d like to share with us, or feel like we’ve missed something out the past week, please feel free to leave us a comment!  If timely enough, I may even add them to this post!

*some exceptions to the date range may apply