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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: fantasy
Nancy Kilpatrick and Thomas Roche’s In The Shadow of the Gargoyle
I’m reviewing In The Shadow of the Gargoyle largely because the Spring 2001 Berkeley Publishing Group catalog which arrived recently had a listing for a novel by Katherine Kurtz called St. Patrick’s Gargoyle. What’s the connection, you ask? Simple — … Continue reading
L. Frank Baum’s Oz books: An omnibus review by Chuck Lipsig
The Wizard of Oz (George M. Hill and Company, 1901) The Land of Oz (Reilly and Britton, 1904) Ozma of Oz (Reilly and Britton, 1907) Dororthy and the Wizard in Oz (Reilly and Britton, 1908) The Road to Oz (Reilly … Continue reading
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L. Frank Baum and Michael Patrick Hearn’s The Annotated Wizard of Oz, and Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner’s The Annotated Alice
Norton has risen beyond its usual level of excellence in both the content and design of these volumes. They will certainly be treasured members of my library. Physically each book is a hardcover measuring a compact 10 inches tall by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, fantasy, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Oz books
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L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Kansas Centennial Edition; Illustrator Michael McCurdy; Foreword by Ray Bradbury
Lahri Bond wrote this review. To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the publication of L. Frank Baum’s masterpiece The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, University Press of Kansas has released a special “Kansas Centennial Edition”of the book. For those whose only … Continue reading
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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
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
Lloyd Alexander’s The Rope Trick
What is magic? Although she doesn’t know it, this is the question confronting Lidi, a young traveling magician, whose sleight of hand tricks earn her a living and bring her across the path of some likeable companions and some unsavory … Continue reading
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Lloyd Alexander’s Westmark
Theo is a young apprentice to a printer, an orphan who has been looked after by his community and his master, Anton. Business has been down lately because the Chief Minister Cabbarus has required official approval for every publication, with … Continue reading