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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
Val McDermid & Kathryn Briggs’ Resistance: A Graphic Novel
I worked for more than 30 years in a state government agency that included the public health department before retiring in, coincidentally, 2021. And for nearly all of that time I heard public health doctors and communicators warning about a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Graphic Literature
Tagged comics, pandemics
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Shatoiya de la Tour’s Earth Mother Herbal
Nellie Levine wrote this review. I’m not really an “earth mother” and my thumb is hardly green, but I do love using herbs both medicinally and in cooking, and I do love watching things grow. I see a sweet, special … Continue reading
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Tagged folklore, food and drink
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Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana’s Pretty Boy Floyd, Michael Wallis’s Pretty Boy, and Jeffery S. King’s The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd
Craig Clarke wrote this review. “There’s no excuse for dressing like trash in this line of work.” – Charles Arthur Floyd in McMurtry and Ossana’s Pretty Boy Floyd When did criminals become our national heroes? Names like Bonnie and Clyde, … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, history
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Jessica Reisman’s The Z Radiant
I’m torn. I don’t want to begin a discussion of author Jessica Reisman‘s wonderful debut novel by opening with the least appealing aspect. But I’m afraid I have no choice. This thing is so huge, and it’s the very first … Continue reading
Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion
“When a thing such as wax, or gold, or silver, turns liquid from heat, we say that it has fused,” Eliza said to her son, “and when such liquids run together and mix, we say they are con-fused.” “Papa says … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, science fiction
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Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Scion
In the god-touched, sun-drenched land of Terre d’Ange, where people “love as thou wilt,” there is no one person with as significant a heritage, or as portentious a destiny as Imriel de la Courcel. His parents were the greatest traitors … Continue reading
Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Avatar
“Once before, my fears had been made manifest in dreams, although it took a trained adept of Gentian House to enable me to see them — and they had proven horribly well-grounded that time. This time, I remembered. I had … Continue reading
Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Chosen
In Kushiel’s Chosen, the sequel to Kushiel’s Dart, Jacqueline Carey once again drops us into the intriguing, fantastic world of Phèdre nó Delauney de Montreve, courtesan, anguisette, spy and inadvertent heroine. Since the events of the first book, in which … Continue reading
Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Dart
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. Take a deep breath before you start this book. It’s a heavy 701 pages of adventure and sex. It’s also one of the most entertaining books I’ve read in a long time. I recommend it … Continue reading
Various artists’ Irish Life and Lore Collections, and Jane O’Hea O’Keefe’s The Ancient Barony of Duhallow: Living Voices
Maurice O’Keefe’s Irish Life and Lore Volume 1 Maurice O’Keefe’s Irish Life and Lore Volume 2 Jane O’Hea O’Keefe’s The Ancient Barony of Duhallow: Living Voices Maurice O’Keefe’s Irish Life and Lore Series 2 CD 2: Julia Mary Murphy Maurice … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish folklore, Irish music
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