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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
Alastair Reynolds’ Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #2) (John Lee, narrator)
The Glitter Band is a collection of 10,000 city-state habitats orbiting the planet of Yellowstone, existing in near-perfect democracy, with that democracy guarded by Panoply and its prefects. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has faced crises before, and overcome them. There’s a … Continue reading
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Josh Weiss’s Sunset Empire
Josh Weiss’s Sunset Empire is a sequel to his Beat the Devils. Both are pieces of alternate history set in a strange world where Joe McCarthy managed to be elected president. The Korean War continues through the end of 1959, … Continue reading
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Mia Tsai’s Bitter Medicine
Mia Tsai’s Bitter Medicine is called, in at least some of the advertising, a contemporary fantasy. While this is technically true, technology like phones and computers feeling more than familiar, it is possibly better fit into another genre. Specifically, it … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary fantasy, paranormal romance
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Korina Moss’s Curds of Prey
Korina Moss’s Curds of Prey is the third in her Cheese Shop Mystery series. Given the rave reviews the earliest installement got, this book has a lot to live up to. While on again off again romances, distant brushes with … Continue reading
Polar Horrors: Chilling Tales From the Ends of the Earth, edited by John Miller
Polar Horrors: Chilling Tales From the Ends of the Earth is a theme anthology edited by John Miller. As the name implies, it focuses on tales relating to the South Pole and its northern brother, a combination that includes a … Continue reading
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Amulya Malladi’s A Death in Denmark
Amulya Malladi’s A Death in Denmark makes bold claims about the intent to make up for the past and improve the present. It does these by building a case in which both prove key to understanding certain crimes. With a … Continue reading
Loren D. Estleman’s City Walls
Loren D. Estleman’s City Walls is the 31st in the Amos Walker Mystery series. With a long running crime series and an old hand at writing, the plot is far more new than the detective. This book finds the Michigan … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, hard boiled, mystery
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Camilo José Cela’s The Hive
Camilo José Cela’s The Hive is an early work by a man who would later be considered a master. Published in 1950 in Buenos Aires, it was controversial at the time of release, even costing the author his job with … Continue reading
Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous
With Autonomous, Annalee Newitz has written the most subversive SF novel I’ve ever read. I’ve followed Newitz on Twitter for a couple of years but this is the first book of theirs I’ve read, so maybe all of them are … Continue reading
Paradox Press: An omnibus review of The Big Book Of … series
Jonathan Vankin’s The Big Book of the ’70s (Paradox Press, 2000) Jonathan Vankin’s The Big Book of Bad (Paradox Press, 1998) Doug Moench’s The Big Book of Conspiracies (Paradox Press, 1995) Bronwyn Carlton’s The Big Book of Death (Paradox Press, … Continue reading
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