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- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Most Beguiling Cookbook
- What’s New for the 13th of April: Anthony Bourdain in print and video; Calexico, Giant Sand and related music; new recordings of ragas, Nordic songs, and vocal jazz, ‘The Night They Drive Old Dixie Down’ performed by The Band
- A Kinrowan Story: We Lost The Cheshire Cat
- What’s New for the 30th of March: Space Opera by Niven & Pournell, Arkady Martine, C. J. Cherryh, Elizabeth Bear, Simon Jimenez and more; Kage reads for us ‘The Empress of Mars’, a novella she wrote; a grab bag of music including new Buryat folk music; The Ukrainians; live music from the Scottish band Iron Horse; Gail Simone graphic novels; Farscape; and of course chocolate
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Rooms
- What’s New of 16th of March: A variety of mysteries; some new Scottish music by an old band, new jazz, and splendid archival reviews; ballads in graphic novel form; and chocolate in Paris
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Pub Ghoulies
- What’s New of 2nd of March: Kibbles and Bits including ghostly stories, the Hotel California, music picked by Gary of course
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Quotes that aren’t
- What’s New for the 16th of February: Books by and about Bob Dylan, and music by Dylan and others; plus some new world music and jazz
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Unreliable Narrators
- What’s New for the 2nd of February: All about the Oz books, green man lore, and gargoyles; Baltic polyphony, East-West ambient psychedelia, and a grab bag of other music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Knit One, Purl Two
- What’s New for the 19th of January: Go Ahead, Be Pleasantly Surprised At What’s Here
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Ancients and Venerables of Guild of St. Nicholas
- What’s New for the 5th of January: A look back at books Gary reviewed in 2024; some seasonally appropriate Nordic music and a little new jazz
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Biscuits
- What’s New for the 22nd of December: A Solstice Story, Crow Girls, Scrooge, Marley, Elizabeth I, Revels and more festive holiday reading; The Lion in Winter on stage and screen; Jethro Tull, Steeleye Span, Christine Lavin, swinging jazz and more holiday sounds
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces
- What’s New for the 8th of December: Elizabeth Bear fiction; some holiday related offerings including new music from The Unthanks, Americana tinged jazz, Polar Express, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Eggnog
- What’s New for the 24th of November: Norwegian winter holiday music, archival jazz, new roots music from around Europe, and more; books and what not about things fictional & medæival
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Pudding
- What’s New for the 10th of November: a grab bag of books from our favorite authors; Richard Thompson and Stephane Grappelli on film; music from all over; and comfort food
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Brandy (A Letter to Tessa)
- What’s New for the 27th of October: The Byrds Live, Trader Joe’s Organic Hot Cocoa Mix, Some Excellent Music Reviews, Folkmanis Puppets of an Autumnal Nature, The Mouse Guard begins…
- A Kinrowan Estate story: All The World’s A Stage
- What’s New for the 13th of October: Elizabeth Bear tends a pot of turkey stock, Groot and Rocket Raccoon, A Video and Fiction set in India, Tasty music reviews, and music from Irish trad band Clannad
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Autumn is Here (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of September: Louisiana’s Lost Bayou Ramblers, live music by Kathryn Tickell, Ottawa based urban fantasies by Charles de Lint, Norwegian saxophonist Karl Seglem, Gus on the Estate Kitchen garden and other Autumnal matters
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Category Archives: Books
Paul Davis’s The Lives & Times of Ebenezer Scrooge
It’s been said that Charles Dickens, by writing A Christmas Carol was more responsible than anyone else for how we conceive Christmas as a holiday: a plump goose, decorated trees, gifts, giving to the poor — all can be found … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Victorian literature
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John Langstaff, George Emlen & Patrick Swanson’s Celebrate the Winter: Winter Solstice Celebrations for Schools and Communities
Jack here. I was down at Toad Hall listening to Brigid practice with the Quasimodal Orchestra, the busking/street theatre group she’s a member of. (Well, you didn’t think I was the only musician in me household, did you? Shame, shame … Continue reading
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Tagged Revels, Winter Solstice
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Frank Tieri, J. Calafiore, and Jack Purcell’s Batman: Gotham Underground
The problem with a story arc like Gotham Underground is that, by itself, it doesn’t really get to go anywhere. Instead, it’s tied into and supports the continuity of a larger limited series/crossover event/superhero throwdown, and as such what happens … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, superheroes
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Simon R. Green’s Shadows Fall
Somewhere off the beaten path of society and civilization, there lies the mysterious town of Shadows Fall. The elephants’ graveyard of the imagination, it’s where gods and heroes, legends and monsters, myths and childhood companions all go when their time … Continue reading
Sue Burke’s Dual Memory
I haven’t yet read Sue Burke’s debut Semiosis, which recently received high praise from Jo Walton, who put it on her list of the Top Ten Genre Books of the First Quarter of the Century over at Reactor Mag. It … Continue reading
Ellis Peters’ The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
A Morbid Taste For Bones (Warner, 1977) One Corpse Too Many (Warner, 1979) Monk’s Hood (Warner, 1980) St. Peters Fair (Warner, 1981) The Leper of St. Giles (Warner, 1981) The Virgin in the Ice (Warner, 1982) The Sanctuary Sparrow (Warner, … Continue reading
Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses
During a recent convalescence when I couldn’t get to the library I decided to re-read an old favorite. As with any truly good book, Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses handsomely rewards a second reading. It had been high on my … Continue reading
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Tagged literary fiction, Nordic fiction
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Daniel Pinkwater’s Jules, Penny & the Rooster
I don’t read Daniel Pinkwater books with my critic hat on. (Who am I kidding, I don’t read any story like that. If I find myself thinking scholarly thoughts, they had better be about nonfiction.) It’s particularly nice to read … Continue reading
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Tagged enchanted forest, magical turtle
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Nalo Hopkinson’s The New Moon’s Arms
When I read it seventeen years ago, I thought of this as Hopkinson’s most accessible novel. Rereading it, I asked myself why. Perhaps the environment is less strange than her mid- and post-apocalyptic futures in which we experience the worm’s-eye … Continue reading
Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads
Lenora Rose wrote this review. I fell utterly and blindly in love with Nalo Hopinson’s first book Brown Girl in the Ring, and I thought that love affair with her prose would continue without any blemish. It lasted through her … Continue reading