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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
Bartle Bull’s Shanghai Station, and China Star
If I fall asleep while I’m reading a Bartle Bull novel, I know am really, seriously tired! His writing keeps me awake and engaged, sometimes to the point that I can’t easily fall asleep – even when I am trying … Continue reading
James R. Benn’s Blood Alone
I read and enjoyed the first two installments in James Benn’s Billy Boyle World War II mystery series. I had learned a while ago from Benn himself that he was at work on a third book, so I’ve been on … Continue reading
James R. Benn’s Billy Boyle, and The First Wave
I chanced upon a copy of The First Wave during the summer of 2006 and was immediately attracted by the cover art. When I looked it up online, I discovered that it was the second book in a series. We … Continue reading
David Downing’s Zoo Station and Silesian Station
I ran across a reference to Zoo Station while browsing the web. I was looking up another book about Germany during World War II and the Amazon search engine gave me this title as a recommendation. It sounded interesting, and … Continue reading
Rebecca Cantrell’s A Night of Long Knives, and David Downing’s Stettin Station
The advance readers’ copies of both of these novels arrived in the Green Man mailroom at about the same time. I have read and reviewed earlier installments in both series. Both are suspenseful tales of the lives of journalists living … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, mystery, noir detective fiction
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Rebecca Cantrell’s A Trace of Smoke
When A Trace of Smoke arrived in the Green Man mailroom, I grabbed it right away. I had a feeling I was going to love every page of it, and indeed I did! At first I thought it was a … Continue reading
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Tagged mystery, noir detective fiction, Romance, suspense
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Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir, The One From the Other, A Quiet Flame, and If the Dead Rise Not
I first ran across Berlin Noir, containing the titles March Violets, The Pale Criminal, and A German Requiem) in one of those remaindered book catalogs several years ago. A detective series set in 1930s Berlin certainly sounded right up my alley, … Continue reading
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Tagged mystery, noir detective fiction
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Paul Grossman’s The Sleepwalkers
I must be attracting novels about Nazi Germany for a reason. Sometimes I feel like I have an alternate life in 1930s Berlin, on that terrifying cusp between the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. My husband found The Sleepwalkers … Continue reading
James Lee, Scott Williams, et al’s Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday (Books 1 & 2)
Part of the problem with Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday, is that we’ve seen it before, and better. We’ve seen it with the Beyonder, for one. Molecule Man, for another. Any comics junkie is going to be more … Continue reading
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Tagged superheroes
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Stephen Weiner, Jason Hall, Victoria Blake, and Mike Mignola’s Hellboy: The Companion
Stephen Weiner, Jason Hall, Victoria Blake, and Mike Mignola (writers) and Mike Mignola (illustrator) It’s really hard to do a companion to a long running series well. Roger Zelazny’s The Amber Chronicles was well served by Theodore Krulik’s The Complete … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, contemporary fantasy, dark fantasy, Hellboy
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