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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for 11th of October: Music reviews picked by Gary for you to consider, ‘Hotel California’ live by the Eagles for you to listen to, and a biography of the Eagles for you to read. So isn’t that enough for one edition here? I think so.
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Getting Ready for All Hallows Eve
- What’s New for the 27th of September: A tribute to Cape Breton music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: All The World’s A Stage
- What’s New for the 14th of September: books and music to see summer out
- What’s New for the 10th of September: It’s Definitely Late Summer!
- What’s New for the 30th of August: Dolly Pardon
- 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)
Category Archives: Books
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s The Age of Homespun
Subtitled “Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth,” The Age of Homespun is a collection of meticulously detailed historical yarns spun around a number of household artifacts created and initially used in New England during the late … Continue reading
David Stahler Jr.’s Truesight
In one of my favourite books as a youth (well, as a pre-teen, really), Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time, Meg, the main character, attempts to describe the sense of sight to Aunt Beast, an alien creature born without it. … Continue reading
Alice Hoffman’s Water Tales
Kate Danemark wrote this review. Left to myself, I would have been hard pressed to come up with my three hundred requisite words for a review of the two novels, Aquamarine and Indigo, contained in Water Tales. To me, the … Continue reading
Alice Hoffman’s Green Angel
Jessica Paige wrote this review. This is the timeline in question: sometime around 5 p.m. I get the mail, and discover Alice Hoffman’s Green Angel waiting to be read. Some time around 5:30 I open the tidy, if worn, envelope … Continue reading
Truman Capote’s “Another Day in Paradise”
Truman Capote’s Another Day in Paradise is a recently rediscovered work by the well known literary figure. It leans more toward his society work than the material found within In Cold Blood. It deals with Iris Greentree, a bitter woman … Continue reading
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Peter James’ Stop Them Dead
Peter James’ Stop Them Dead is another in a very long-running series, and chooses to focus on a murder connected to a specific subset of crime to give it some novelty. A small family is making ends meet partly by … Continue reading
A.F. Carter’s The Yards: A Novel
A.F. Carter’s The Yards: A Novel of Suspense is an excellent example of neo noir. Following the lives of a number of figures in a failing town named Baxter, the death of a junkie leads them to intersect as the … Continue reading
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s Burning Distance
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s Burning Distance is a new volume from an experienced and multi-talented hand. Sold as a thriller, and dealing with events surrounding, before and shortly after the original Gulf War there is little in the way of avoiding calling … Continue reading
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Lindsey Davis’ Fatal Legacy
Fatal Legacy is the latest in Lindsey Davis’ Flavia Albia series. Once again featuring our lead working as a private investigator of sorts, the book starts as one of the lower stakes cases she has encountered. However, like many such … Continue reading
Jode Millman’s The Empty Kayak
Jodé Millman’s The Empty Kayak is the third in a series starring police detective Ebony Jones. With a title that makes the coming action seem obvious, the book relies heavily on twisting and character to keep reader interest. The police … Continue reading