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- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
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- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- 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
Category Archives: Books
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline audiobook
Christine Doiron penned this review. Like most children of a certain age, Coraline is somewhat dissatisfied with her life. Her parents are dull and don’t pay enough attention to her, no one pronounces her name correctly, and — most of all … Continue reading
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Tagged Gothic horror story, Neil Gaiman
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Cherie Priest’s Those Who Went Remain There Still
With Those Who Went Remain There Still, Cherie Priest mixes up her trademark Southern gothic with some good old fashioned monster mash. The book jumps back and forth between two historical narratives and several narrators effortlessly. On one hand, there’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Monster story, southern gothic
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Cherie Priest’s Not Flesh Nor Feathers
Not Flesh Nor Feathers is Cherie Priest’s third novel concerning Eden Moore. It is set once again in the lush southern strangeness of the Tennessee River Valley that cradles Chattanooga. This one is a real tour de force, too — it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged ghost story, Southern Gothic mystery
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Cherie Priest’s Dreadful Skin
Cherie Priest is a splendid writer. Her two previous novels — Four and Twenty Blackbirds and Wings To the Kingdom — are highly original takes on clairvoyance, psychic ability, family dynamics and even coming-of-age. They are also beautifully crafted examples of Southern Gothic, well-researched … Continue reading
Cherie Priest’s Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Cherie Priest is a first time novelist. However, she writes with ease and a deceptive power, like the flow of the Tennessee River through her home city of Chattanooga. Four and Twenty Blackbirds is a Southern Gothic with a hint of hard … Continue reading
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Tagged ghost story, Southern Gothic mystery
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Alan Moore’s Voice of the Fire
Rebecca Scott penned this review. Magic is the art of producing changes in consciousness in conformity with will. – Dion Fortune A half-wit boy in the Neolithic period is abandoned by his people upon the death of his mother. A sociopathic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Moore, English histoty, Northampton
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Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s The Mote in God’s Eye audiobook
Throughout the past thousand years of history it has been traditional to regard the Alderson Drive as an unmixed blessing. Without the faster than light travel Alderson’s discoveries made possible, humanity would have been trapped in the tiny prison of … Continue reading
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Tagged space opera
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Rita Mae Brown’s Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
This long running mystery series, this is the ninth novel so far, is always an interesting read for me. This series grows out of her passions for horses, hounds, and American fox hunting which show up frequently in her fiction … Continue reading
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Tagged Fox Hunting Culture, mystery
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Craig Johnson’s Dry Bones
Ok, let’s start off by noting that the characters here are not the same in their characterisation as the one submarine their names on the excellent Longmire series currently running on Netflix after its previous network canceled. Even the depiction … Continue reading
Neil Gaiman’s Hansel & Gretel
Does the readers of kindermurchen in English need one more translation of this tale? Jack Zipes alone has provided several excellent ones one just recently that’s true to horror of the original Brothers Grimm tale, and Maria Tatar has well … Continue reading
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Tagged Grimm Brothers, Hansel & Gretel, Neil Gaiman
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