Everything you want to know about books in Hawai’i can be found at www.HawaiiBookBlog.com. Bloggers Misty-Lynn Sanico and Alex Alba don’t just talk about books — they go to signings, readings, and events, tweeting, blogging and uploading video. You can find them at libraries and book stores, sharing their passion for reading. They love books about Hawai’i, and not about Hawai’i, fiction and non-fiction. They cover local, national and international book trends. Check ‘em out!
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Like love and other things, writing lessons are where you find them. For example, want to read some good dialogue, and learn from it? Look no further than my favorite coffee mug.
The mug, which was my favorite Christmas present last year, features text from UrbanDictionary.com. To illustrate the phrase “moo point,” there’s this dialogue from an episode of Friends:
Read the rest of this entry »Joey: All right, Rach. The big question is, “does he like you?” All right? Because if he doesn’t like you, this is all a moo point.
Rachel: Huh. A moo point?
One of Watermark Publishing’s authors, Frances H. Kakugawa, started a dialogue with Charles Pellegrino, author of The Last Train from Hiroshima, a book which earlier this year received a great deal of attention for not-so-good reasons. Think James Frey-Oprah Winfrey-A Million Little Pieces-attention.
Frances, a former Hawaii public school educator, felt a very personal connection with Pellegrino’s Last Train, which chronicles the experiences of some of the survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb—her parents’ families perished at Hiroshima. When she discovered that there was some controversy over whether the survivors’ accounts were true or not (one of Pellegrino’s sources turned out to have duped the author), she posted an open letter to the author on her blog expressing her dismay.
To her surprise, Pellegrino wrote back to her.
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