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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
- 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
Category Archives: Books
Mercedes Lackey’s The Sleeping Beauty
In the Five Hundred Kingdoms, fairy tales are alive and well, thanks to the power of the Tradition. Like an all-powerful theatre producer, it makes sure that things go according to certain tropes and themes. Princes are handsome and noble, … Continue reading
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C. Dombrowski’s Growing Dread
It is easy for the casual reader to get lost in the maze of literary movements declaring themselves one flavor of “-punk” or another. Cyberpunk and splatterpunk may have kicked it off back in the 80s, but more recent times … Continue reading
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James A. Hetley’s The Summer Country
The fiddle chased him and pounced, and then the two instruments rolled around like a pair of kittens playing with a catnip mouse. A flute joined in, and the ball of fur turned into rambunctious reel, one Brian had never … Continue reading
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Midori Snyder’s The Flight of Michael McBride
Once, long ago when the Tuatha Da Danann rode their fairy horses over the green hills, a mortal man fell in love with Etian, the second and much-neglected wife of Midhir, King of the Fairy Hill of Bri Leith. This … Continue reading
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Harlan Ellison’s Deathbird Stories
Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison first appeared in the mid-1970s. I’m sure I must have read them then — I was quite assiduously following the break-through writers of the British and American New Waves, as well as those feminist writers … Continue reading
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Philip José Farmer, The Magic Labyrinth
The Magic Labyrinth is the fourth and penultimate book in Philip José Farmer’s sprawling Riverworld series, in which loose ends are tied together and a grand resolution is — well, not accomplished, but the end is nigh. The chase upRiver … Continue reading
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Jim Butcher, Ghost Story
Note: For those of you who have not read the previous Dresden Files novel, Changes, this review is one big spoiler – no way to avoid it. Go ahead and get caught up on the series, then come back and check this … Continue reading
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Glen Cook: Surrender to the Will of the Night
Surrender to the Will of the Night is the third volume in Glen Cook’s The Instrumentalities of the Night, and everything I said about the first two volumes holds true here. It’s just become refined, distilled, and that much more … Continue reading
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Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks
“When Faerie and my world intersect, does anything good ever come of it?” Three ways to tell that it just isn’t your day: 1. You messily break up with your boyfriend, a complete jerk whose idea of managing the band … Continue reading
William Gibson’s Zero History
Zero History is the third book in William Gibson’s series that began with Pattern Recognition and continued in Spook Country. The best-selling series brought Gibson out of the ghetto of genre fiction into the limelight of more mainstream fiction, which … Continue reading