Hawaii | Hawaii
Jan.31.2012
The famed Mavericks Surf Contest, which takes place in Half Moon Bay, California, is called each year by its organizers only when conditions are right. Last year, the waves were never big enough for the competition to take place. This year, it began on January 3rd, 2012, the same day as the...
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Jan.28.2012
by Don Wallace
As the principals of The Descendants prepare to stroll down Oscar’s red carpet, and the 119th anniversary of Queen Liliuokalani’s overthrow is observed, a major and masterful new book about Hawaii hits the shelves. Julia Flynn Siler’s Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen,...
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Jan.25.2012
Mahalo nui loa – which in Hawaiian means thank you very much! – to the half dozen or so book groups I’ve heard from around the country that have picked Lost Kingdom as their monthly or quarterly read. I’m truly grateful to all of you – from Liz Epstein’s Literary Masters groups (10 book groups in...
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Jan.22.2012
One of the problems I've had on tour for my new book, Lost Kingdom, Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure, is figuring out how to correctly pronounce the constant-rich Hawaiian names that appear throughout my book. It's a challenge I've been...
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Dec.18.2011
image via mannythemovieguy.com
I remarked to the missus as we walked out of The Descendants that you can always count on George Clooney to be involved in movies with a lot of complexity, underlain by an equal measure of subtlety. In case you haven't seen the flick, Clooney is a too-busy...
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Nov.07.2011
“Veterans’ stories and poems are immense inscope, and in heart, and—amazingly—full oflife and laughter. They … tell the truth, andso make peace.” –Maxine Hong Kingston
On Veterans Day (11/11/11), award-winning author Maxine Hong Kingston will lead a reading of veterans’ writings at Friends Meeting...
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Oct.26.2011
The statistics are daunting: less than two percent of all the books optioned for the screen ever enter production. Far fewer make it into theaters. My first book, The House of Mondavi was optioned twice, but never came close to becoming a movie.
That’s why it’s been a vicarious thrill to watch...
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Oct.07.2011
October 7
What Oliver Could not Know
One of the complications of being an orphan is not learning about the failings and foibles which visit themselves on all parents. Living estranged from G-d has this same blind spot. When you live with someone day...
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Aug.25.2011
My highly acclaimed medical mystery and police procedural eBook, MURDER IN MAUI: A Leila Kahana Mystery, has reached #1 in Amazon's Kindle Store for Bestselling Books on Travel in the Pacific. It is also #7 on Amazon's Bestseller Lists for Hawaii Books, and #50 for Medical Thrillers.
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