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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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
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Category Archives: Books
Various authors: An omnibus review featuring Lloyd Alexander, Evangeline Walton, et. al
Patrick Ford, translator and editor’s The Mabinogi and other Medieval Welsh Tales (University of California Press, 1977) John Layard, editor’s A Celtic Quest: Sexuality and Soul in Individuation (revised by Anne S. Bosch) (Spring Publications, 1975) Lloyd Alexander’s The Black … Continue reading
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Tagged Welsh mythology
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Kath Filmer-Davies’s Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth: Tales of Belonging
Contemporary fantasy writers such as Susan Cooper and Jane Yolen are drawing more and more on ancient Welsh mythic tales and folklore as the basis of their stories. (See Grey Walker’s review of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising series.) … Continue reading
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Mike Ashley, editor’s, The Merlin Chronicles
A storm is coming, but the winds are still, And in the wild woods of Broceliande, Before an oak, so hollow and old It look’d a tower of ivied masonwork, At Merlin’s feet the wily Vivien lay… Tennyson’s “Idylls of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthurian legend, myth
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John Matthews’s The Song of Taliesin: Tales from King Arthur’s Bard
Lisa Spangenberg wrote this review. The Song of Taliesin: Tales from King Arthur’s Bard is a collection of retellings, loosely based on medieval Welsh and Irish texts, that John Matthews sees as related to the myth of Taliesin. Green Man … Continue reading
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John Matthews’ Taliesin: The Last Celtic Shaman
Lisa Spangenberg wrote this review. John Matthews, like his wife Caitlin, is prominent in Neo-Pagan circles, and they have separately and together written an enormous number of books regarding Celtic, Arthurian, and spiritual subjects. You can find reviews here on … Continue reading
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John Matthews’ The Quest for The Green Man
John Matthews’ The Quest for The Green Man is one of the many books we’ve gotten that touch upon the green man motif. It is typical of the many books that John and Catlin Matthews have produced — lavishly illustrated, … Continue reading
Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. “Not by appointment do we meet delight,” poet Gerald Massey said, and I have found this to be true. I met one of the greatest delights of my life while browsing in my high school … Continue reading
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Lloyd Alexander’s The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, and The Castle of Llyr audiobooks, read by James Langton
Lloyd Alexander brought magic to my childhood, never more so than with the five books collectively called the Chronicles of Prydain. I adored these books, and read them time on time. They were for me what the Harry Potter series … Continue reading
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Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye’s License Invoked
They’re not Mully and Sculder, or whoever those two are. Not by a long shot. In fact, the only thing Liz Mayfield and Boo-Boo Boudreau have in common with the Dynamic Duo of the X-Files is that they’re both government … Continue reading
Larry Doyle’s Go, Mutants!
“People are human beings . . . even if they aren’t.” You remember high school. Knowledge you were sure would never be needed once you could grab your diploma and really start living, dances that were so much better in … Continue reading