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- A Kinrowan Estate story: puppeteers, and their puppets
- 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
Category Archives: Books
Fritz Leiber’s The Big Time audiobook
First let me stress that the LibriVox version of this audiobook is a piece of shit with both a lousy narrator and an appalling lack of proper production. Consider yourself warned. Oh and despite the claim that this work … Continue reading
Charles Stross’ The Annihilation Score (A Laundry Files Novel)
Consider the matter of an antique violin, one of a number constructed by a man called Erich Zan, and made of human bone taken from multiple live donors, which are solely intended to produce music capable of murdering demons. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Cthulu mythos, science fiction
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Roger Zelazny’s My Name is Legion audiobook
If you go to any of the major legal online sources for audiobooks such as iTunes, you’ll find very little to be head for this author. Oh you’ll find The Chronicles of Amber novels, all ten of them which is … Continue reading
Carol Ballard’s The Greenman: The Shakespeare Connection
When I was a child — long, long ago, eons before GUIs, desktop publishing and digital cameras — I loved taking tours of historical old houses. One of the highlights of touring such old places, aside from the wonderful old … Continue reading
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Tagged Greenman imagery, Shakespeare
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Laura Shamas’ We Three: The Mythology of Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters
Forest, trees: there is a certain brand of scholarship that tends to focus on minute examinations of trees in the attempt to discover a forest. I am the last to decry the idea of analyzing parts in the hope of … Continue reading
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Tagged Shakespeare, witches
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John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera
The Beggar’s Opera, or at least the edition I recieved for review, and I, have an unusual history. Ever since I received this book in the mail, one thing after another manifested to distract me from my mission. Every time … Continue reading
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Tagged English history, John Gay, opera
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Angela Carter’s Wise Children
It’s a wise child that knows its own father — and wiser yet the father who knows his own child. Carter’s novel draws its name from the quote above (the quote also appears as dialogue). The titular “wise children” are … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s Illyria
Elizabeth Hand’s new novel Illyria follows in a long tradition of science fiction and fantasy stories which reference the works of Shakespeare, particularly the romances, and Hand’s lyrical writing style is a wonderful fit for the dark romance she sets out to … Continue reading
Karen Wynn Fonstad’s The Atlas of Middle-Earth
I overheard an interesting conversation that took place during High Tea in The Robert Graves Memorial Reading Room here in the Estate Library on a rainy afternoon while our Librarian was taking a break from fussing over the edition of Green Man Review he … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantastic geography, JRR Tolkien, maps
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Diana Glyer’s The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
Anyone who has ever read of the legendary group of writers called the Inklings, about their friendship and lives as Oxford academics, has likely wondered about the nature of this long standing group. Its two most commercially successful authors, Tolkien … Continue reading
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Tagged CS Lewis, Inklings, JRR Tolkien
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