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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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- 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
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. This classic fantasy series is often compared to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis, but this is not a fair comparison. Although all three can be read as … Continue reading
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Tagged British Fantasy, Earthesea, fantasy, Ursula LeGuin
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
When I finished reading the last pages of the last story in The Birthday of the World, I wandered around disoriented for perhaps an hour. This new collection of short stories and novellas by Ursula Le Guin is not like some … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthrolpology, Ursula K. Leguin
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s Changing Planes
Ursula K. Le Guin is an anthropologist of people and cultures that might be. Her book Always Coming Home is the clearest example; in it she studies a possible future civilization in northern California, unearthing stories and descriptions of architecture, festivals, healing … Continue reading
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
Michelle Erica Green penned this review. “Alone, I cannot change your world. But I can be changed by it. Alone, I must listen, as well as speak. Alone, the relationship I finally make, if I make one, is not impersonal … Continue reading
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Tagged Gender, Svienvce Fiction, Ursula Le Guin
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Walter Jon Williams’ The Fourth Wall
And thus we complete the Dagmar Shaw trilogy, a very neat merging of very real games theory writ large upon a near future world just one step away from something very bad happening somewhere pretty much all the time. Stop … Continue reading
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Tagged Games theory, science fiction, Turkish politics
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Ken Maclead’s The Star Fraction audiobook
I got this sometime back from one of the publicists from Audible sometime back but hadn’t gotten around to listening to it until this past week. Now I’m sorry that I didn’t give it a listen sooner! It was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Devolved Britian, Leftist politics, Political theory, science fiction, theories of history
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Various Writers’ Firefly: A Celebration
Firefly lasted but a double handful of episodes and one film, but it created a huge number of Browncoats, fans of the series who were so named for the coat that Firefly a Captain Malcolm Reynolds wore. Oh and Steven Brust, … Continue reading
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Tagged Firefly series, Joss Whedon, science fiction
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Viola Carr’sThe Diabolical Ms. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the creation long ago of Robert Louis Stevenson, has been a rich trope in fiction in all forms from print and graphic novels to television series and movies alike. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll … Continue reading
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Tagged alternate history, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, London, steampunk
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Roger Zelazny’s The Chronicles of Amber: Nine Princes in Amber audiobook
Unlike the two Zelazny audiobooks that I listened to recently, Isle of Dead and My Name is Legion, which don’t exist in an easily obtainable and definitely legal manner, this is a work that can be purchased at any online … Continue reading
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Frank Herbert’s Dune audiobook
I’m assuming that you know about Dune, so I’ll not detail it here. Did you watch Farscape? If you did, you’ll remember that everyone save the U.S. astronaut thrown into that weird setting spoke with a variety of Australian accents? … Continue reading