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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
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
Asher Black wrote this review. With the resurgence of interest in J. R. R. Tolkien’s work spurred by the Christmas 2001 release of the film version of The Lord of the Rings, and because, as the recent film review by … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, J.r.R. Tolkien, tom bombadil
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Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings (DVD)
Sarah Meador wrote this review. Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings makes a startling assumption for an American cartoon feature. While most animated features seem to take it on faith that their audience will be musical-loving children, The Lord … Continue reading
Rankin-Bass’ The Hobbit (DVD)
Sarah Meador wrote this review. The animated musical version of The Hobbit, produced for American television by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass (Rankin-Bass), opens with a small bit of narration from the book as the camera pans over lovely … Continue reading
Tagged Animation, comics, fantasy, JRR Tolkien
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion; Christopher Tolkien, editor
Liz Milner wrote this review. The Silmarillion is often described as a difficult book. This is partly because its first readers went to it with the expectation that it would be an adventure story similar to J.R.R. Tolkien’s other works … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, J.r.R. Tolkien
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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
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Tagged Animation, comics, fantasy, hayao miyazaki
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Robert Holdstock’s The Bone Forest
Robert Holdstock is best known for his sprawling Ryhope Wood series, which encompasses, most readers think, four complex novels: Mythago Wood, Lavondyss, The Hollowing, and Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn. Of course they are some of the finest writing … Continue reading
Robert Holdstock’s Unknown Regions
Robert Holdstock is not the finest living writer of the fantastic. That being said, there are precious few other accolades one can withhold from the man or his writing. He has produced a truly remarkable body of work, with his … Continue reading
Robert Holdstock’s Celtika, and The Iron Grail: Books One and Two of the Merlin Codex
On the strength of this beginning novel of a new series, Robert Holdstock is attempting to tie together almost everything he has written since the British Science Fiction Award winning Mythago Wood, weaving together all the threads of Western mythology … Continue reading
Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Scion
In the god-touched, sun-drenched land of Terre d’Ange, where people “love as thou wilt,” there is no one person with as significant a heritage, or as portentious a destiny as Imriel de la Courcel. His parents were the greatest traitors … Continue reading