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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
John Langan’s Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies
John Langan’s Corpsemouth and Other Autobigraphies is a collection of short stories ranging from the weird to the horrific and on to the just plain odd. With both llengthier and briefer examples, this collection will likely chill. “Kore” starts as … Continue reading
Anthony Berkeley’s Murder in the Basement
Anthony Berkeley’s Murder in the Basement features a decided unusual twist for fiction in the age it was originally published. Specifically, one of the few wherein the identity of the victim is a major mystery that needs to be solved … Continue reading
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Anthony Horowitz’s The Twist of a Knife
Anthony Horowitz’s The Twist of a Knife is the latest of his books to feature Hawthorne, a moderately to severely disreputable detective who continually intrudes on a fictitious version of the author’s life. Given that the lead had seemed reluctant … Continue reading
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Aliette de Bodard’s The Red Scholar’s Wake: A Xuya Universe Romance
Xich Si is a tech scavenger, living in Triệu Hoà Port, and scavenging tech to sell and support herself and her daughter, when she’s captured by pirates. Specifically, she finds herself a prisoner on the mindship Rice Fish. Rice Fish … Continue reading
Josepha Sherman’s Rachel The Clever and Other Jewish Folktales
Chuck Lipsig wrote this review. Rachel the Clever is a collection of Jewish folktales from a variety of geographic and religious sources. The stories are generally well told, with the right touches of wit and clarity, though sometimes suffering for … Continue reading
Josepha Sherman’s Jewish American Folklore, Trickster Tales, and Once Upon A Galaxy
I’ve known Josepha Sherman for over a decade now, ever since my high school days. I was originally attracted to her writing through the fantasy collaborations she did with Mercedes Lackey, and the welcoming, jovial nature of her newsgroup on … Continue reading
Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Sword
In the first book of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, Ancillary Justice, we met Breq, a lone soldier who used to be a starship with dozens or even hundreds of ancillary bodies, now inhabiting just this lone survivor of an … Continue reading
Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice
Imagine your world has been invaded by a spacefaring human civilization – highly advanced, rapacious and unspeakably cruel. They want your world’s resources and they’re going to take what they want, and in the process of invading – which they … Continue reading
Poul Anderson’s The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 1
Poul Anderson began writing his own “future history” in the 1950s, with its starting point being that there would be a limited nuclear war at some point in that decade. From that point would develop a secret effort to build … Continue reading
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Jim C. Hines’ Tamora Carter: Goblin Queen
Jim Hines had me at “junior roller derby girl.” As Flash Hottie of the Windy City Rollers Haymarket Rioters I skated with the grownups, and as a speed skater for Fleetwood Speed, I got to know the power and determination … Continue reading
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Tagged Fight Club on skates, girl power, roller derby
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