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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
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Sands of Dune: A Collection
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Sands of Dune: A Collection puts together four short novellas in Frank Herbert’s famous universe. There is a nice introduction in which the storytelling origin for each of these little pieces is explained. Interesting … Continue reading
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Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun
Western education, when it comes to the history of China, can be rather scanty in my experience. If you are lucky, you get a list of Chinese dynasties with little context as to what they are and how they came … Continue reading
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Tagged alternate history, China, chinese history, fantasy, historical fantasy
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T. Kingfisher’s A House with Good Bones
Samantha (Sam) Montgomery is an archaeoentomologist, returned for a rare extended visit to her mother’s home in North Carolina. She’s been looking forward to it, is excited as she approaches the house, and initially not that worried by her brother’s … Continue reading
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Ben Aaronovitch’s Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London #7) (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (narrator)
Lies Sleeping picks up after The Hanging Tree, and it’s a continuation of that story, essentially the second half of the story. As much as you’ve been told not to read this series out of order, really don’t read these … Continue reading
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Mia Tsai’s Bitter Medicine
Chinese traditional magic, European fae magic, and the magic of other cultures exists alongside the non-magical world. Elle is a descendant of a Chinese medicine god. She’s got considerable magical talent, and was supposed to be a doctor. Instead, she’s … Continue reading
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Ekaterina Sedia, editor’s Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy
Deborah J. Brannon wrote this review. Paper Cities is a collection of urban fantasy in the truest sense of the term: stories of the fantastic from or about the city and all the wonderment and horror that entails. I imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged urban fantasy
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Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors’ The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Fifth Annual Collection
Joselle Vandershoot wrote this review. Since the first Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthology was released in 1988, the series has been a touchstone for remarkable and ground-breaking genre writing from around the world, and the series’ fifth edition (covering … Continue reading
Kristine Kathryn Rusch‘s Unity Con (A Spade/Paladin Conundrum)
Spade is in Garland, Texas, hanging out with people he likes instead of going to Unity Con, a convention he has sworn not to attend because it’s been organized by a group, or rather two groups, of people at the … Continue reading
Janet Kagan’s Uhura’s Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21)
I’ll admit upfront this is a nostalgic favorite. I think it’s also very good. Early in her career, Lt. Uhura met a young diplomat from the world of Eeiauo. The two women bonded over music, singing, and the songs of … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction, Star Trek
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s At Witt’s End (A Spade/Paladin Conundrum),
Spade is back and this time the problem he faces is conducting a memorial for a recently deceased BNF (Big Name Fan) who never wanted any memorial, along with auctioning off the man’s fabulous collection of science fiction fandom memorabilia, … Continue reading