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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
Matt Wagner’s Batman/Grendel
Matt Wagner did two crossover series, the first a joint effort between Comico, his publisher at the time, and DC Comics, and the second between Dark Horse and DC, to bring together Grendel and Batman. In the first mini-series, originally … Continue reading
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Tanya Huff’s Summon the Keeper
Summon the Keeper is quite possibly the first of Tanya Huff’s books that I read – she’s another one of those writers who has a long history in my library. This one is a contemporary urban fantasy that is hilariously … Continue reading
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Lindsay Faye’s Observations by Gaslight
Lindsay Faye’s Observations by Gaslight is a collection of stories about a familiar detective which take an interesting stylistic decision as a common feature. The subtitle of the book is “Stories from the World of Sherlock Holmes” yet rather than … Continue reading
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Brian Froud and Terry Jones, and Brian Froud and Terri Windling, A trio of fairy books
Brian Froud and Terry Jones’ Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book Brian Froud and Terry Jones’ Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells Brian Froud and Terri Windling’s Good Faeries, Bad Faeries Brian Froud is one of those artists whose magical designs and … Continue reading
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Charles de Lint’s Forests of The Heart (first chapter)
– 4 – A wave of music, conversational noise, and hot, smoky air greeted Hunter when he pushed open the oak and glass front door of the Harp and stepped inside from the snowy street that evening. He looked around … Continue reading
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Ian Strathcarron’s Sherlock Holmes’ A Case of Royal Blackmail
Sherlock Holmes’ A Case of Royal Blackmail is a novel about the great detective by Ian Strathcarron. Serving as a prequel of sorts, the book deals with the romantic affairs frequently conducted by Edward the VII, nicknamed “Bertie.” A new … Continue reading
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Chris Ware’s The Acme Novelty Library #17
The concept of the Acme Novelty Library is described in very specific detail in tiny little print in the front of this Seventeenth issue. It tells the reader that it was “established in 1989 as the brick and mortar fictional … Continue reading
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Iain M. Banks’s The Player of Games
The Player of Games was Iain M. Banks’ second novel of The Culture, originally published in 1988. It already has many of the hallmarks of his truly spectacular later Culture books like Matter and Surface Detail, although the plot is … Continue reading
T.S. Eliot’s Murder in The Cathedral
You’ll often find me in my office here with a cup of tea reading a history of something or ‘nother. It might be a true history, i.e. Stanley Weintraub’s Silent Night: The Story of The World War I Christmas Truce, which … Continue reading
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Joss Whedon and Georges Jeanty’s The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Volume One)
If you’re a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer like I am, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Volume One: The Long Way Home is something you’ve been looking forward to for a few years now. If you’re only generally aware of … Continue reading
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