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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
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Elizabeth Hand wrote this review. Hans Christian Andersen — was there ever a writer of children’s stories who seems more likely to have fallen from the pages of one of his own works? The child of a shoemaker and an illiterate … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, folk tales, Hans Christian Andersen
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Jane Yolen’s Not One Damsel In Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
Marian McHugh penned this review. Yolen initially compiled Not One Damsel in Distress for her daughter and three granddaughters, as she wished to provide for her girls that which she had not been able to access — stories where girls are the heroes. … Continue reading
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Tagged feminist folktales, Jsne Yolen
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Jane Yolen’s Mightier Than The Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys
It is not only the sword that wields power, but also the mind, the heart, and the will. (from the cover) Standing around the virtual water cooler in the GMR break room recently — in between suggesting names for the newest pet … Continue reading
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Christopher Fowler’s Full Dark House
Christopher Fowler’s Full Dark House is the best mystery set during the London Blitz of the early 1940s that I’ve ever read, bar none. It is also the best mystery set within the very peculiar world of the theater that … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Fowler, English mystery, English theatre, London, Second World War, The Blitz
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Charles Pearce’s Polly Peachum and The Beggar’s Opera
If you read our review of John Gay’s play The Beggar’s Opera, you know how interesting this ballad opera is. As our reviewer notes, “Posing in various forms such as social commentary, a satire on Italian opera, a ballad opera, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beggar's opera, English theatre, John Gay, Sixteenth Century London
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Adam Hall’s The Striker Portfolio
Adam Hall’s espionage agent Quiller is the sort of man who makes Jason Bourne look like a strip-mall rent-a-cop. He makes James Bond look like a school crossing guard. He makes, well, you get the idea. Quiller is hard, and … Continue reading
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The History of Middle-Earth
Liz Milner wrote this review. The History of Middle-Earth offers an unprecedented opportunity to examine a great writer’s creative development over a period of 60 years. At his death, J.R.R. Tolkien left a huge body of unfinished and often unorganized writings on … Continue reading
Jean Markale’s The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween
Nellie Levine wrote this review. It is early autumn. The days are cooler; the air crisp, and night arrives more quickly. I have pulled my sweaters out from my closet and am wearing long velvet skirts. The food I buy at … Continue reading
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Tagged All Hallows Eve, All Souls Day, Celtic culture, Halloween, Samhain
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s Spirits That Walk In Shadow
It’s late autumn here in New England. The last lingering tattered leaves have crashed and burned to the ground, and even the fiery rites of Halloween and Guy Fawkes are behind us. We’re left with a shrinking hoard of days … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s Yarrow: An Autumn Tale
Cat Midhir has stopped dreaming. People assure her that it isn’t possible, that she just doesn’t remember her dreams, but Cat knows they’re wrong. Where her dreams have been, there is only heaviness and loss. For Cat, this loss means … Continue reading
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Tagged British mythology, Charles de lint, fantasy, Ottawa
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