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- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Most Beguiling Cookbook
- What’s New for the 13th of April: Anthony Bourdain in print and video; Calexico, Giant Sand and related music; new recordings of ragas, Nordic songs, and vocal jazz, ‘The Night They Drive Old Dixie Down’ performed by The Band
- A Kinrowan Story: We Lost The Cheshire Cat
- What’s New for the 30th of March: Space Opera by Niven & Pournell, Arkady Martine, C. J. Cherryh, Elizabeth Bear, Simon Jimenez and more; Kage reads for us ‘The Empress of Mars’, a novella she wrote; a grab bag of music including new Buryat folk music; The Ukrainians; live music from the Scottish band Iron Horse; Gail Simone graphic novels; Farscape; and of course chocolate
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Rooms
- What’s New of 16th of March: A variety of mysteries; some new Scottish music by an old band, new jazz, and splendid archival reviews; ballads in graphic novel form; and chocolate in Paris
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Pub Ghoulies
- What’s New of 2nd of March: Kibbles and Bits including ghostly stories, the Hotel California, music picked by Gary of course
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Quotes that aren’t
- What’s New for the 16th of February: Books by and about Bob Dylan, and music by Dylan and others; plus some new world music and jazz
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Unreliable Narrators
- What’s New for the 2nd of February: All about the Oz books, green man lore, and gargoyles; Baltic polyphony, East-West ambient psychedelia, and a grab bag of other music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Knit One, Purl Two
- What’s New for the 19th of January: Go Ahead, Be Pleasantly Surprised At What’s Here
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Ancients and Venerables of Guild of St. Nicholas
- What’s New for the 5th of January: A look back at books Gary reviewed in 2024; some seasonally appropriate Nordic music and a little new jazz
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Biscuits
- What’s New for the 22nd of December: A Solstice Story, Crow Girls, Scrooge, Marley, Elizabeth I, Revels and more festive holiday reading; The Lion in Winter on stage and screen; Jethro Tull, Steeleye Span, Christine Lavin, swinging jazz and more holiday sounds
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces
- What’s New for the 8th of December: Elizabeth Bear fiction; some holiday related offerings including new music from The Unthanks, Americana tinged jazz, Polar Express, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Eggnog
- What’s New for the 24th of November: Norwegian winter holiday music, archival jazz, new roots music from around Europe, and more; books and what not about things fictional & medæival
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Pudding
- What’s New for the 10th of November: a grab bag of books from our favorite authors; Richard Thompson and Stephane Grappelli on film; music from all over; and comfort food
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Brandy (A Letter to Tessa)
- What’s New for the 27th of October: The Byrds Live, Trader Joe’s Organic Hot Cocoa Mix, Some Excellent Music Reviews, Folkmanis Puppets of an Autumnal Nature, The Mouse Guard begins…
- A Kinrowan Estate story: All The World’s A Stage
- What’s New for the 13th of October: Elizabeth Bear tends a pot of turkey stock, Groot and Rocket Raccoon, A Video and Fiction set in India, Tasty music reviews, and music from Irish trad band Clannad
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Autumn is Here (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of September: Louisiana’s Lost Bayou Ramblers, live music by Kathryn Tickell, Ottawa based urban fantasies by Charles de Lint, Norwegian saxophonist Karl Seglem, Gus on the Estate Kitchen garden and other Autumnal matters
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Category Archives: Books
Jane Louise Curry’s Robin Hood and his Merry Men, and Robin Hood in the Greenwood
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. These hardcover retellings of the traditional Robin Hood legend are geared for children 9-12. While I feel that children over the age of 10 might find these books too young, I do think they are … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature, myth, Robin Hood
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Scott Lynch-Giddings’s A Fancyfull Historie of That Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood
Jessica Paige wrote this for Folk Tales. A Fancyfull Historie of That Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood doesn’t wait until you’re done gasping for breath from saying the title to let you know what you’re in store for: … Continue reading
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Tagged drama, myth, Robin Hood
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Theresa Tomlinson’s The Forestwife, and Child of the May
Laurie Thayer wrote this review for Folk Tales, the predecessor of Green Man Review. In the early years of the 1990s, Robin Hood and his Merry Men enjoyed something of a renaissance. For a time, there was a spate of … Continue reading
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Marv Wolfman and George Pérez’s Crisis on Infinite Earths
It may seem strange to begin a review by taking a look at the end of the book, but Dick Giordano begins his afterword of DC Comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths with, “Whew, what a read, huh?” (This is the … Continue reading
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Various authors: An Omnibus Review Of Books About Christmas In History And Tradition
Tony von Renterghem’s When Santa Was a Shaman (Llewellyn Books, 1995) Clement Miles’s Christmas Customs and Traditions: Their History and Significance (T. Fisher, Unwin, 1912; Dover, 1976) John Ashton’s A Righte Merrie Christmasse!!! The Story of Christ-Tide (Benjamin Blom, 1968 … Continue reading
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Various authors and editors: An omnibus review of British Folk Tales
Nina Auerbach and U.C. Knoepflmacher’s Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers (University of Chicago Press, 1992) Katherine Briggs’s Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts; British Folktales; and Folktales of England (Pantheon, 1979), (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), … Continue reading
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Robert Holdstock’s The Bone Forest
Robert Holdstock is best known for his sprawling Ryhope Wood series, which encompasses, most readers think, four complex novels: Mythago Wood, Lavondyss, The Hollowing, and Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn. Of course they are some of the finest writing … Continue reading
Robert Holdstock’s Unknown Regions
Robert Holdstock is not the finest living writer of the fantastic. That being said, there are precious few other accolades one can withhold from the man or his writing. He has produced a truly remarkable body of work, with his … Continue reading
Robert Holdstock’s Celtika, and The Iron Grail: Books One and Two of the Merlin Codex
On the strength of this beginning novel of a new series, Robert Holdstock is attempting to tie together almost everything he has written since the British Science Fiction Award winning Mythago Wood, weaving together all the threads of Western mythology … Continue reading