Do check out Literary Lotus too. The blog can be found at literarylotus.com.

Kamehameha Press…Bamboo Ridge founder…UH Press…Native Books’
Maile…UH Biography Center’s Howe…Poets as readers with leis and
loved ones or twos, overhead projection so all could read the
lines…Lots to eat from Buddy Bess the feeder, plus a huge
chocolate decorated cake “to evaporate” almost instantly after it
was cut..El vino–not manini in quality or quantity.

What joyful kick-off in Maximum Pidgin’s home base: Lee T.
couldn’t stop an everlasting grin from stretching his face.

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Writers, students, dramatists—readers all--at Craig and Sarah Howe’s heights lookout for reading talk, chow down, and…Family singers performing polyphonic a cappella, Christmas music, some of it centuries old—both sotta voce and huge and bold—who started Christmas singing at the Howes’ when the huge guy was littler with an unchanged voice: He now sings with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City—three octave range, easily.

“Kids” from UH’s final 620 writing/reading class, (curriculum’s been modified), one recruited for Kumu Kahua Theater, projected enthusiasm throughout a room filled with bodies. Footwear left outside the front door: Sleepah, sneekah, high heels, dress-ups, down at the heels (mine), work boots—it’s what we wear who appreciate this kaleidoscopic site and its insight on readers and from writers.

Here's some from our list on view. note local authors, too:

The Kite Flyer by Khaled Husseini

The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman

Behold the Many by Lois Ann Yamanaka
Saturday Night at the Pohala Theatre

House of Many Gods by Kiana Davenport

East Wind Rain by Caroline Paul

Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner

Out! by Natsuo Kirino

Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama

The Innocent Man by John Grisham

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Mocking bird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields

March by Geraldine Brooks

Nightwatch by Terry Pratchett

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Accidental by Ali Smith

Honor Killings by David Stannard

Q. To Chris McKinney: Your present tense in "Mililani Mauka" A Novel, (sic) departure from using past for fiction books, present tense for scripts. Why do you cross conventional lanes and innovate?

A. From McKinney: I like to play around with point-of-view and tense.
I enjoyed using third person present in "Mauka." It was an instinctive decision--just liked the sense of immediacy it brought with the opening scene (the bulldozer) and decided to stick with it. Glad you liked the book.

National Public Radio's Lynn Neary has suggestions for book clubs--goods for discussion--after Aiea Library's "Reading Edge" picked their's for 2010. Here are her thoughts for you who may be making lists.

"Cutting for Stone", Abraham Verghese. What its like to be a good doctor.

"The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?", Padgett Powell. She has the questions, do you have any answers?

"Too Much Happiness," Alice Monroe. Short stories you can't have too much of (solecism is mine).

"A Reliable Wife," Robert Goolrick. I'll measure what "Corinthians" says against what Goolrick offers.

"In Other Rooms, Other Wnders," Daniyai Mureenubbig. Is on "Best of the Year" lists.

Been there, done that? Comments, anyone?

Hope to see additional books written and/or published in Hawai‘i in 2011!