Bøker av Lanning Lee

Aloha. This is the 5th in my Lt. David Chan Hawai'i-based mystery series. I've tried to keep the suspense and bloodshed up to the accustomed levels, but you can be the judge of that. In this one, I begin my official documentation of Chan's cases with his blessing. Of course he can't share all the details of a case for confidentiality purposes, so I've had to use my imagination to fill in gaps where newspaper coverage, trial transcripts, and any archival material cannot supply all the details. Chan liked the draft you see here, although he did kid me a little for some of my guesses at supplying those details. I hope you enjoy this one.

Aloha to you. This is my fourth collection of poems. I try my best to write what seems to me to be decent verse, but as all writers know, it's the readers who will always be the final judges. If you do take a chance on reading my poems, I hope that your time investment is rewarded in some way. If you enjoy even one poem, I will be glad that I could write something that speaks to you. Mahalo, as always, for reading my work.

This book is a collection of 155 Shakespearean love sonnets, the last one dedicated specifically to Shakespeare, truly one of my literary heroes. They were written over a seven month period in 2017. I actually drafted roughly 230 sonnets, but these were the only ones I posted on Facebook. These love sonnets are a tribute to Shakespeare and his 154 sonnets, and I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

This collection of love haiku began as a project to write one haiku a week and publish it on Facebook. The moment I wrote the first one and launched it Facebook, I knew that I wanted to write one a day. My goal was to write 365. Once I published #365, however, I realized I could not stop. So I went on, and finally settled on the date of my retirement as the day to publish my last one. That turned out to be #866. So here they are. I hope you enjoy my love haiku.

Have you ever known exactly what you were going to do only to find out that you don't do it?Did you have a life plan with an ultimate goal all laid out perfectly? Did you then pursue that goal only to find out that it was not the right one for you?In this memoir, I decide upon a career path that suddenly becomes a dead end. Seizing upon another goal, I come up against an insurmountable wall, and while I beat my head against that wall, a new goal develops almost by accident.Can you find your true calling? Here it appears for me in the form of pursuit of a major in English Literature. This journey follows me from earning a B.A. at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, through an M.A. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And then . . .Dreams die hard, but sometimes they do die. So how do you get yourself back on track?Through a series of truly disparate events, experienced on a winding road of various jobs and fortunate coincidences, I discover myself and return to my true calling, finally setting my sights on earning a Ph.D. in English Literature.At one point in Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, there is a page where Tristram attempts to diagram the story's arc. These are the four squiggly possibilities you see on the front cover of this book, lower lefthand quadrant.My journey has been circuitous as well, perhaps not quite as comedically so, but close. The title of my memoir is a map: Point A: This is commonly accepted as the point from which we all start.Eh: By the way, in Hawaiian Pidgin English, this expression can be the beginning of any statement: Eh, whatchoo goin do?Eh, I like grind some onolicious food.So, eh/A, I begin my journey in Hawai'i.Point Y: Why? What is the point? Why am I here? What am I supposed to do with my life?Point C: We have to see our way to find the answers to life's questions. We have to get out there, try things. So anything and everything we can do we should do.Point B: Mathematics may say it's so, but the line from Point A to Point B to finally C Y you are here is not always a straight one, as Sterne illustrates. Hopefully everything that happens to you along a winding path from A to B will lead you to be what you were, in fact, meant to B.The rest of my book's title is a reference to Sterne's second best-known work: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. This is the book that lays the foundation in multiple ways for who I've become today, and you'll understand why as you read along with me.If you really want to hear about it, and I hope you do, this memoir, told in a reader-friendly voice with an enthusiasm that sparkles through -- I hope -- will inspire readers who have doubts and questions about the true course for their lives, and I hope to capture all that great David Copperfield kind of mystery and joy with my tale.So Eh/A, try read this to C Y Lanning Lee came to B him, and maybe I can even help you to become You.While you read along, I hope you will be both enlightened and entertained as you walk this humorous and poignant path together with me. The two of us will travel a road to self-discovery, and that journey, I'm hoping, will captivate and surprise you in ways that promise to keep you turning pages.

This is the third in the Lieutenant David Chan Hawai'i-based mystery series. This one introduces Chan's sister, Denise. She's in love with the kind of men Chan usually throws in jail. There's all the action and all the bloodshed you've come to expect in my series, but there's a whole lotta love, too. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed writing it.