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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
Andrea Hairston’s Will Do Magic For Small Change
Andrea Hairston’s Will Do Magic For Small Change a stack of ideas including a mixture of metatextual novel and historical fantasy. There are also elements of family drama, amd even coming of age present. It is also a sequel to … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Penney’s A Treacherous Tale
Elizabeth Penney’s A Trecherous Tale is the second in her Cambridge Bookshop series. While a little time is spent catching up the reader with the lead, Molly Kimball, and her life the majority is spent upon the mystery itself. Molly … Continue reading
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Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man, The October Country and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man, The October Country and Other Stories is a glorious collection of short stories by one of the masters of the form released by the Library of America. The Illustrated Man gives one of the best … Continue reading
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The One Ring role playing game, Second Edition
The One Ring Role-playing in the world of The Lord of the Rings is an impressive and well built volume, featuring a nice mix of rules, lore, and art. Given the venerable nature of the world it is attached to, … Continue reading
Anita Amirrezvani’s The Blood of Flowers
Toward the end of The Blood of Flowers, the unnamed narrator and main character says, “All our labors were in service of beauty, but sometimes it seemed as if every thread in a carpet had been dipped in the blood … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, historical fiction, Young Adult fiction
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Tasha Alexander’s Secrets of the Nile
Tasha Alexander’s Secrets of the Nile is in many ways a throwback to classic Agatha Christie style novels. While the title makes clear a homage to one of the more well-known Hercule Poirot stories, it is more the general milieu … Continue reading
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Loren D. Estleman’s Paperback Jack
Loren D. Estleman’s Paperback Jack is an interesting turn on a lot of material that the author is more than familiar with. In the past Loren D. Estleman has written historical novels, mysteries, westerns, and others. He is best known … Continue reading
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Tagged noir detective fiction, pulp fiction
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Everina Maxwell’s Ocean’s Echo
Everina Maxwell’s Ocean’s Echo returns to the setting previously created for her Winter’s Orbit SF novel. While this book refers to the earlier one’s setting, overall it does not require an understanding of the previous piece. Tennel is the nephew … Continue reading
Lavie Tidhar’s Neom
Lavie Tidhar’s Neom returns to the setting of his previous Central Station. In this case the title once again is taken from the key location in the story, an old city with a new mixture of people and tech that … Continue reading
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Al Sarrantonio’s Halloween and Other Seasons, Matt Warner’s Horror Isn’t a Four-Letter Word, and H. P. Lovecraft and S. T. Joshi’s The Annotated Supernatural Horror In Literature
Halloween and Other Seasons collects eighteen stories previously published in such venues as Cemetery Dance Magazine, Asimov’s, and (one of my favorite horror anthologies from last year) Midnight Premiere. While Sarrantonio’s stories range in style from science fiction Westerns to … Continue reading