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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
J.R.R. Tolkien and Baillie Tolkien’s Letters From Father Christmas (Revised Edition), and Letters From Father Christmas, read by The Usual Suspects, Longfellow Books, Portland, Maine, USA, December 16, 2002
Every Christmas between the years 1920 and 1943, the ever-so-blessed children of J.R.R. Tolkien received some of the most unique mail that a child could ever hope for: letters from Father Christmas himself! Beautifully illustrated and delivered in various ways, … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature, J.r.R. Tolkien
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, editor, assisted by Christopher Tolkien
Not surprisingly, the Green Man library contains many items related to J. R. R. Tolkien and his works. Tolkien is one of the best creators of fantasy who ever lived, period. And the recent films based on The Lord of … Continue reading
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Tagged J.r.R. Tolkien, literary scholarship
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The J.R.R. Tolkien Audio Collection [audio, read by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien]
Rachel Manija Brown wrote this review. This four-CD set from Harper Audio/Caedmon is an odd mix in many ways. All the material is by J. R. R. Tolkien, but only two of the CDs, consisting of excerpts from The Hobbit, … Continue reading
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion; Christopher Tolkien, editor
Liz Milner wrote this review. The Silmarillion is often described as a difficult book. This is partly because its first readers went to it with the expectation that it would be an adventure story similar to J.R.R. Tolkien’s other works … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, J.r.R. Tolkien
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James Goldman’s Robin and Marian, Robin McKinley’s The Outlaws of Sherwood, Richard Kluger’s The Sheriff of Nottingham, Jane Yolen, editor’s Sherwood: A Collection of Original Robin Hood Stories
Take no scorn to wear the horn It was the crest when you were born Your father’s father wore it And your father wore it too Robin Hood and Little John Have both gone to the fair o and we … Continue reading
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Tagged myth, Robin Hood
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Stephen Knight’s Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography
Robin Hood’s a myth, a fiction invented by countless storytellers down the centuries. Sure. Now go ahead explain why, according to the press release that came with this book, he is the only person of a fictitious nature in the … Continue reading
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Tagged folklore, myth, Robin Hood, scholarly studies
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J.C. Holt’s Robin Hood, and Stephen Knight’s Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw
Take no scorn to wear the horn It was the crest when you were born Your father’s father wore it And your father wore it to Robin Hood and Little John Have both gone to the fair o and we … Continue reading
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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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Tagged Children's literature, myth, Robin Hood
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