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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Category Archives: Books
Jane Yolen’s Ring Out!, Tam Lin, Mother Goose Songbook, The Sleeping Beauty, and Touch Magic
Used bookstores are great places to find those books that you never expected to locate. A recent trip down a street near where we live yielded three books by Jane Yolen, a writer who has been called the American Hans … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, Jane Yolen
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Guides to fantastic literature: an omnibus review
Neil Barron, Fantasy Literature: A Reader’s Guide Neil Barron, Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction John Clute and John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy David Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels Ahhh, been muckin’ ’bout the … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, reference books
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The Brothers Grimm’s Grimm’s Grimmest, Maria Tatar (editor), and T.A. Dockray (illustrator)
So you want read a nice, pleasant story with a happy ending to your daughter as she drifts off to sleep? Let’s see what’s offered up in Grimm’s Grimmest… hmmm… There’s the story (“Juniper Tree”) of the woman who decapitates … Continue reading
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Tagged Brothers Grimm, fairy tales
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Sarah Avery’s Tales of Rugosa Coven
It’s been a long, long time since my witchy days, but these three novellas bring it all back like riding a bicycle. At least, the parts where the gang are clowning, cooking, squabbling, doing friend stuff, and having personal drama. … Continue reading
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David Liss’s The Death and Birth of Iliana Marek
I’ve reviewed David Liss’s work here before, a historical fantasy called The Peculiarities. A gory thriller isn’t my usual thing, but The Death and Birth of Iliana Marek is a Liss novel, and he has a tic that I appreciate: … Continue reading
Judith M. Bennett’s Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England
It is not a commonly known fact that in the 14th century in England most beer and ale brewed for sale was brewed by women. Three hundred years later it was an industry run by men. One of the changes … Continue reading
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Tagged food and drink, history
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Suzanne Palmer’s Ode to the Half-Broken
Award winning author Suzanne Palmer adds to her growing stack of novel-length SF with Ode to the Half-Broken, an engaging tale of friendship and treachery, adventure and revenge among post-apocalypse AI “mechs” and a few surviving humans in what used … Continue reading
David Hughes’s Fifty Yards Of David Hughes, and The Fairport Tour (book+CD)
Chris Woods wrote this for Folk Tales. 50 yards is the latest studio album from British singer songwriter David Hughes, helped out here by Jacqui McShee, Gerry Conway, Matt and Dave Pegg. It’s great for once that I can use … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock, folk-rock
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James S.A. Corey’s Leviathan Wakes
It’s already been a few years since the 10th anniversary edition of this book was published, to celebrate the first decade of this huge and hugely popular SF franchise now known as The Expanse. I came to it rather late, … Continue reading
Alison Bechdel’s Spent
Best selling graphic novelist Alison Bechdel’s Spent is a laugh-out-loud example of autofiction at its best, tackling serious topics of our present moment while poking fun at herself and her milieu, the world of aging Boomer leftist (mostly) lesbians in … Continue reading