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- 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
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- 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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- What’s New for the 1st of September: A grab bag of books, music, and film that touch on the theme of work
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Breakfast, Korean Style
- What’s New for the 4th of August: A raft of Cuban music reviews; Trader Joe’s chocolate peanut butter cookies; Looking at J.R.R. Tolkien; And a Cuban band documentary
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Kedgeree
- What’s New for July 21st: All music — books on The Pogues, Sandy Denny, Lowell George, Zappa, and more; Cajun mardi gras on film; and Cajun, zydeco, and klemer related music
- A Kinrowan Estate Stoty: A Guest Lecturer
- What’s New for the 7th of July: A Passel of Roger Zelazny Reviews, A Write-up of an Irish Pub, Two Pieces of Live Music by Rosanne Cash, Where Irish Coffee Originated, Irish (and a Little Welsh) Music of a Modern Sort
- A Travels Abroad story: Truly Shitty Celtic Metal
- What’s New for the 23rd of June: A special edition for the Solstice, Wales in literature and music, and yes, in film.
- A Kinrowan Story: The Oak King
- What’s New for the 9th of June: Some beach reads — dark fantasy, superhero romance, comic fantasy and teen aliens; Finnish fiddles, Swedish-American jazz, and an Earl Scruggs tribute, and a grab bag of archival music; glam rock on film; an Alan Moore tribute
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Tag Archives: fantasy literature
Ursula Le Guin’s The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin: The Found and the Lost and The Unreal and the Real
I think the first piece of fiction I read by Ursula Le Guin was The Dispossessed followed closely by The Left Hand of Darkness. Sometime after that I read the original trilogy of novels that would eventually be seven novels … Continue reading
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James Stoddard’s The High House and The False House
Welcome to the House that God built. Evenmere, the High House, that unending ever-changing building which crosses and contains worlds. It is, and represents, all Creation, an enigma, a parable, a mystery. Within its halls and rooms, passages and basements, … Continue reading
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Pamela S. Gates, Susan B. Steffel and Francis J. Molson’s Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults
I love smarting myself up. Just read that last sentence; increasing my mental capacity is obviously a good idea. So whenever I see a book that promises to tell me something I don’t know, I’m interested. Especially when the topic … Continue reading
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Lord Dunsany’s The Collected Jorkens: Volumes One, Two, and Three
Gary Turner wrote this review. Lord Dunsany was born in 1878 and died in 1957; he was born at a time when the sun never set on the British flag, trains ran at a breakneck speed of 30 mph or … Continue reading
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Tim Powers’ Nobody’s Home
Tim Powers is well-known for taking an actual historical setting and taking that into something much more fanciful. So listen up as Richard Dansky tells us about his latest review: Returning to the world of a much-beloved story doesn’t always … Continue reading
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Steven Brust’s Hawk
With Hawk we reach number fourteen in Steven Brust’s Taltos Cycle, and things are about to change. Again. Vlad Taltos is tired of being on the run. The Organization – House Jhereg – has been hunting him for what seems … Continue reading
Leona Wisoker’s Fires of the Desert
Fires of the Desert is Book Four of Leona Wisoker’s series, Children of the Desert, and, just when you thought things couldn’t get more complex and difficult, they do, although thankfully the darkness of Bells of the Kingdom is ameliorated. … Continue reading
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T.H. White’s The Once and Future King
I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back. Do you know what is going to be written on … Continue reading