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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Category Archives: Books
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
China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station
Jason Erik Lundberg wrote this review. China Miéville sometimes pisses me off because he’s such a phenomenal writer. He’s only three years older than me, but at this point he’s written four amazing books, run for Parliament, gotten a Ph.D., … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, urban fantasy
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China Miéville’s The Scar
Jason Erik Lundberg wrote this review. China Miéville is one of those authors that leaves you feeling exhilarated and envious at the same time. At only thirty years old, he has managed to graduate from Cambridge, complete a Ph.D. from … Continue reading
China Miéville’s The Tain
Jason Erik Lundberg wrote this review. tain n. 1. A type of paper-thin tin plate. 2. Tinfoil used as a backing for mirrors. China Miéville has contributed The Tain as part of PS Publishing’s line of original novellas (which includes … Continue reading
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
Every good fiddler has a distinctive sound. No matter how many play the same tune, each can’t help but play it differently. Some might use an up stroke where another would a down. One might bow a series of quick … Continue reading →