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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
Tag Archives: comics
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron (Japanese title 君たちはどう生きるか or Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka – “How Do You Live?”) had won a couple of Golden Globes the previous day when we finally bestirred ourselves to see it at … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged Animation, comics, fantasy, hayao miyazaki
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Marv Wolfman and George Pérez’s Crisis on Infinite Earths
It may seem strange to begin a review by taking a look at the end of the book, but Dick Giordano begins his afterword of DC Comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths with, “Whew, what a read, huh?” (This is the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Graphic Literature
Tagged comics
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Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, editors’ It Was a Dark and Silly Night
Nathan Brazil wrote this review. Across the hemisphere our heroes dash in a flying machine of their own design, when down below in the ravaged tulip fields they spot the herbicidal maniacs. It Was a Dark and Silly Night is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Graphic Literature
Tagged Children's literature, comics
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Val McDermid & Kathryn Briggs’ Resistance: A Graphic Novel
I worked for more than 30 years in a state government agency that included the public health department before retiring in, coincidentally, 2021. And for nearly all of that time I heard public health doctors and communicators warning about a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Graphic Literature
Tagged comics, pandemics
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G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker’s Air: Letters from Lost Countries
Blythe is not your typical airline attendant. Sure, she’s blonde, pretty and personable, playing into every conceivable stereotype there is. But Blythe is much more than that. For starters, she’s acrophobic, surviving each flight only through the wonders of modern … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Literature
Tagged comics
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Joe Sacco’s Palestine: The Special Edition
This lovely edition of Joe Sacco’s classic graphic novel Palestine is being promoted as “celebrating fifteen years of . . . Joe Sacco’s groundbreaking work of comics journalism.” So, it’s not a graphic novel? It’s “comics journalism.” OK, I’ll buy … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Literature
Tagged comics
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Blake Bell’s I Have to Live With this Guy!
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. The first thing you read in the “About the Author” section on the last page of I Have to Live With this Guy! is “Blake Bell has killed a guy.” I don’t know whether … Continue reading
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Tagged Biographies, comics
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Chester Brown’s Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography
In the USA, history has been used as a basis for all sorts of entertainment. Novels, films and television shows have long been built out of the legends of American history. And so American history might have been distorted in … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian history, comics, history
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Gary Ross’s Pleasantville
Lenora Rose wrote this review. The premise of Pleasantville is fairly straightforward. Teenage twins David and Jennifer are magically transported into the actual black and white world of the TV show Pleasantville, taking the place of TV twins Bud and … Continue reading
Stephen Weiner, Jason Hall, Victoria Blake, and Mike Mignola’s Hellboy: The Companion
Stephen Weiner, Jason Hall, Victoria Blake, and Mike Mignola (writers) and Mike Mignola (illustrator) It’s really hard to do a companion to a long running series well. Roger Zelazny’s The Amber Chronicles was well served by Theodore Krulik’s The Complete … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, contemporary fantasy, dark fantasy, Hellboy
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