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Sir William Bonville, 6th Lord Harington1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20
M, #39330, b. circa 1442, d. 31 December 1460
Father William Bonville, Esq.1,2,3,21,13 d. 31 Dec 1460
Mother Elizabeth Harington1,2,3,21,13 d. b 3 Mar 1458
Sir William Bonville, 6th Lord Harington was born circa 1442 at of Chewton, Somersetshire, England; Age 16 in 1458.1,2,3,21,13 He married Katherine Neville, daughter of Sir Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, Lord Monthermer, Constable of Pontefract Castle & Portchester Castle, Great Chamberlain of England, Joint Chamberlain of the Exchequer, Lord Chancellor and Alice Montagu, after 10 May 1459; Date of her father's will; they had 1 daughter (Cecily, wife of Sir Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, & of Sir Henry Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire).1,3,22,23,21,6,7,8,13,16,17,18 Sir William Bonville, 6th Lord Harington died on 31 December 1460 at Battle of Wakefield, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Beheaded after the battle along with his father.1,2,22,21,7,13,17
Katherine Neville b. c 1435
Cecily Bonville+2,1,24,25,4,21,5,6,9,10,11,12,13,26,14,15,16,19,20 b. 1461, d. 12 Apr 1530 or 12 May 1530
[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VI, p. 320.
[S11583] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., 111.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 127.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 43-44.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 336-337.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 304-305.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 163.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 50-51.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 157.
[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 327-328.
[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 464.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 435.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 168-169.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 248.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 160-162.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 125.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 655-656.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 105.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 257.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 385-386.
Helen (Jean) Erskine1
Father Thomas Erskine, 2nd Lord Erskine, 14th Earl Mar, 7th Lord Garioch d. c 1493
Mother Janet Douglas1 d. a Aug 1489
Helen (Jean) Erskine married Humphrey Colquhoun, son of Sir John Colquhoun, Sheriff of Dumbarton and Marion Boyd.1
Humphrey Colquhoun d. Aug 1493
Sir John Colquhoun+1 d. 1536
Patrick Colquhoun+2,3 b. c 1466
Agnes Colquhoun4 b. c 1485, d. a 1528
Humphrey Colquhoun+5,6 b. c 1490, d. Jan 1538
[S147] Burke's Peerage, 1938 Edition, 624.
[S11597] Ancestry.com, Submitted by steven rodenbough.
[S11453] Unknown author, Burke's Peerage, 1938 ed., p., 624.
[S11587] The Scots Peerage, Vol. VIII, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 15.
[S11756] Genealogy.elib.com, Webtrees--Stewart Family Tree.
[S147] Burke's Peerage, 1938 Edition, p. 624.
Anne Holand1,2,3,4,5,6
Last Edited 29 Jul 2013
F, #39332, d. after 4 January 1473
Father Sir Henry Holand, 2nd Duke of Exeter, Earl of Huntingdon & Ivry, Admiral of England, Ireland, & Aquitaine1,2,3,4,5,6 b. 27 Jun 1430, d. Sep 1475
Mother Anne Plantagenet1,2,3,4,5,6 b. 10 Aug 1439, d. 12 Jan 1476
Anne Holand married Sir Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, Lord Ferrers, Constable of the Tower of London & Ruthland Castle, son of Sir John Grey, Lord Ferrers and Elizabeth Wydeville, in October 1466 at Greenwich, Middlesex, England; No issue.1,2,3,4,5,6 Anne Holand died after 4 January 1473; d.v.p.s.p.1,3,5,6
Sir Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, Lord Ferrers, Constable of the Tower of London & Ruthland Castle b. c 1455, d. 30 Aug 1501
[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. IV, p. 418.
Elizabeth Gray1
Last Edited 7 Jan 2005
Father Patrick Gray, Master of Gray1 d. b 1 Sep 1464
Mother Annabella Forbes1
Elizabeth Gray married David Rollock.1
David Rollock
Elizabeth Rollock+1
[S11572] The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, by Gerald Paget, Vol. II, p. 397.
Margaret Fleming1
Father Sir Malcolm Fleming d. 24 Nov 1440
Mother Elizabeth Stewart
Margaret Fleming married Patrick Gray, Master of Gray, son of Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray and Elizabeth Wemyss, before 7 February 1440.
Patrick Gray, Master of Gray d. b 1 Sep 1464
Margaret Wotton1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Last Edited 9 Mar 2014
F, #39335, b. circa 1490, d. after 1537
Father Sir Robert Wotton, Sheriff of Kent, Lt. of Guisnes, Comptroller of Calais1,10,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 b. 1465, d. 1524
Mother Anne Belknap1,11,2,4,5,6,8,9 d. bt 1521 - 26 Dec 1523
Margaret Wotton was born circa 1490 at of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, England.1,2 She married Sir Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, Lord Ferrers, Harington, & Bonville, Joint Constable of Warwick Castle, son of Sir Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, Lord Ferrers, Constable of the Tower of London & Ruthland Castle and Cecily Bonville, between 6 January 1509 and 31 December 1509; They had 4 sons (Sir Henry, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, Duke of Suffolk; Edward; Sir Thomas; & Sir John) and 4 daughters (Mary; Katherine, wife of Sir Henry FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel; Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas, Lord Audley of Walden, & of George Norton; & Anne, wife of Sir Henry Willoughby).1,10,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Margaret Wotton died after 1537 at of Lee, Kent, England; She married (1) William Medley, Esq.1,2,4,6
Sir Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, Lord Ferrers, Harington, & Bonville, Joint Constable of Warwick Castle b. 22 Jun 1477, d. 10 Oct 1530
Catherine Grey+12,2 b. c 1512, d. 1 May 1532
Elizabeth Grey+13,2 b. c 1515, d. 4 Apr 1561
Sir Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, Duke of Suffolk, Lord Bonville, Harington, & Ferrers of Groby+14,4,6,8 b. 17 Jan 1517, d. 23 Feb 1554
Anne Grey+15,2,3,4,6,7,8 b. c 1519
Sir John Grey, Lord Grey+16,4,6,8 b. c 1527, d. 19 Nov 1564
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 234.
[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 167.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 42.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 90-91.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 90.
[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. I, p. 251.
[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. IV, p. 420-422.
Elspeth Stewart1
Father Sir John Stewart, 1st Earl Atholl, Ambassador to England b. c 1440, d. 15 Sep 1512
Mother Eleanor Sinclair d. 21 Mar 1519
Elspeth Stewart married Robert Innes, 2nd Lord of Innermarkie, son of Walter Innes, 1st Lord of Innermarkie and Christian Gordon.2
Robert Innes, 2nd Lord of Innermarkie d. c Oct 1551
Robert Innes, Master of Innermarkie+2 d. b 10 Nov 1547
[S11563] The Scots Peerage, Vol. I, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 442.
[S147] Burke's Peerage, 1938 Edition, 1378.
William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas1,2,3,4,5
Last Edited 19 Feb 2014
M, #39337, b. circa 1425, d. 22 February 1452
Father James Douglas, 7th Earl Douglas, 1st Earl Avondale6 b. c 1380, d. 24 Mar 1443
Mother Beatrix St. Clair1 d. b 8 Feb 1463
William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas was born circa 1425; Twin of James, 9th Earl of Douglas.7 A contract for the marriage of William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas and Margaret 'Fair Maid of Galloway' Douglas was signed on 24 July 1444; Date of Papal Dispensation.8,2,3,4,5 William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas died on 22 February 1452 at Stirling Castle, Scotland; d.s.p. Stabbed by the King (James II).8,3,5
Margaret 'Fair Maid of Galloway' Douglas d. bt 22 Jan 1473 - 19 Apr 1475
[S11565] The Scots Peerage, Vol. III, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 174.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 105-106.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 42-43.
[S11565] The Scots Peerage, Vol. III, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, 174.
Sir James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, Earl of Avondale, Lord of Balveny1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
M, #39338, b. circa 1425, d. circa 22 May 1491
Mother Beatrix St. Clair1,3 d. b 8 Feb 1463
Sir James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, Earl of Avondale, Lord of Balveny was born circa 1425; Twin of William, 8th Earl Douglas.10 He married Margaret 'Fair Maid of Galloway' Douglas, daughter of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl Douglas, Earl of Wigtown, Duke of Touraine, Comte de Longueville and Euphemia Graham, on 26 February 1453; Date of Papal Dispensation.11,4,5,6,9 Sir James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, Earl of Avondale, Lord of Balveny and Margaret 'Fair Maid of Galloway' Douglas were divorced in 1459.11,5,9 Sir James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, Earl of Avondale, Lord of Balveny married Anne Holand, daughter of Sir John Holand, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Earl of Huntingdon & Ivry, Admiral of the South & West, Earl Marshal of England, Admiral of England, Ireland, & Aquitaine and Anne Stafford, after 29 March 1461; No issue.11,2,3,7,8 Sir James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, Earl of Avondale, Lord of Balveny died circa 22 May 1491 at Lindores Abbey, Newburgh, Fife, Scotland.11,2,3,8
Anne Holand d. 26 Dec 1486
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 251-252.
[S11565] The Scots Peerage, Vol. III, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 174, 178.
Dugald Campbell1
Father Archibald Campbell b. c 1480, d. 1542
Mother Margaret Campbell b. c 1478
Dugald Campbell was born at of Auchinbreck & Kilmichael, Scotland.1 He married Fynewald MacDonell, daughter of Sir James MacDonell and Agnes Campbell; d.s.p.1
Fynewald MacDonell
Duncan Campbell, Capt. of Castle Sween1,2
M, #39340, b. circa 1511, d. 3 October 1594
Mother Margaret Campbell1 b. c 1478
Duncan Campbell, Capt. of Castle Sween was born circa 1511 at of Auchinbreck, Argyllshire, Scotland.2 He married (Miss) Buchanan, daughter of Patrick Buchanan and Marion (Margaret) Campbell, circa 1539.1,2 Duncan Campbell, Capt. of Castle Sween died on 3 October 1594 at Battle of Glenlivet, Glenlivet, Banffshire, Scotland.1,2
(Miss) Buchanan b. c 1510
Mary Campbell+3 b. c 1558, d. 1614
[S11649] Clan MacFarlane & Associated Clans Genealogy.
[S11597] Ancestry.com, Submitted by Hon. TED MENZIES.
Donald Campbell, 1st Lord of Kilmory1
Last Edited 9 May 2014
M, #39341, d. after 7 November 1593
Donald Campbell, 1st Lord of Kilmory married Grizel (Elspeth) Stewart circa 1550; They had 5 sons & 1 daughter.1 Donald Campbell, 1st Lord of Kilmory died after 7 November 1593.1
Grizel (Elspeth) Stewart b. c 1525
Archibald Campbell1
Archibald Campbell Married and had children.1 He was born at of Danna & Kilberry, Scotland.1
Alexander Campbell1
Mother Catherine Campbell1
Alexander Campbell He married and had children.1 He was born at of Strondour, Scotland.1
Sir Robert Wotton, Sheriff of Kent, Lt. of Guisnes, Comptroller of Calais1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
M, #39344, b. 1465, d. 1524
Father Nicholas Wotton, Esq.12,5,11 d. 9 Apr 1481
Mother Elizabeth Bamborough12,5,11
Sir Robert Wotton, Sheriff of Kent, Lt. of Guisnes, Comptroller of Calais was born in 1465 at of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, England.1,13 He married Anne Belknap, daughter of Henry Belknap, Esq. and Margaret Knollys, circa 1488; They had 6 sons (Sir Edward; Anthony; Leonard; Nicholas, Dean of Canterbury; Robert; & George) and 3 daughters (Idonea, wife of Thomas Norton, Esq; Margaret, wife of Sir Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, Lord Ferrers; & Mary, wife of Sir Henry Guildford, & of Sir Gawen Carew).1,14,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11 Sir Robert Wotton, Sheriff of Kent, Lt. of Guisnes, Comptroller of Calais left a will on 26 December 1523; Requested burial in the church of the Carmelite Friars, Calais, next to his wife, Anne.5,11 He died in 1524 at Calais, Normandy, France.15,14,5,11 His estate was probated on 7 June 1524.5,11
Anne Belknap d. bt 1521 - 26 Dec 1523
Sir Edward Wotton, Sheriff of Kent, Treasurer of Calais+13,5,11 b. 1489, d. 8 Nov 1551
Margaret Wotton+1,16,17,2,3,5,7,8,9,11 b. c 1490, d. a 1537
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 91.
[S11575] The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, by Gerald Paget, Vol. I, p. 97.
Norman Leslie, Master of Rothes1
M, #39345, d. 1554
Father George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes, Sheriff of Fife, Ambassador to Denmark d. 28 Nov 1558
Mother Margaret Crichton2 b. c 1485, d. bt 31 May 1542 - 1546
Norman Leslie, Master of Rothes married Isabel Lindsay, daughter of Sir John Lindsay, 5th Lord Lindsay of the Byres and Helen Stewart.3 Norman Leslie, Master of Rothes died in 1554 at Battle of Renti; d.s.p.1
Isabel Lindsay
[S11565] The Scots Peerage, Vol. III, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 67.
[S147] Burke's Peerage, 1938 Edition, 1560 & 2128.
William Leslie1
William Leslie Implicated in murder of Cardinal Beaton, so he was passed over for the Earldom.1
Robert Leslie, 1st Laird of Findrassie1,2,3
Last Edited 22 Jun 2016
M, #39347, b. circa 1519, d. 22 September 1588
Robert Leslie, 1st Laird of Findrassie was born circa 1519 at of Rosmarkie, Ross-shire, Scotland.3 He married Janet Elphinstone, daughter of Alexander Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Elphinstone and Katherine Erskine, circa 1554 at England.2 Robert Leslie, 1st Laird of Findrassie died on 22 September 1588.3
Janet Elphinstone b. 16 Mar 1535, d. bt 1 Jan 1598 - 26 Aug 1599
Agnes Leslie+4 b. c 1576
[S11586] The Scots Peerage, Vol. VII, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 288.
[S11597] Ancestry.com, Submitted by janicecollett.
Margaret Crichton1,2,3,4
F, #39348, b. circa 1485, d. between 31 May 1542 and 1546
Father William Crichton, 3rd Lord Crichton2,3 d. b 23 Oct 1493
Mother Margaret Stewart5,6,3 d. a 1503
Charts Pedigree of James Irvine
Margaret Crichton was born circa 1485 at of Frendraught, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; She had a liaison with Patrick Pantar, King's Secretary, by whom she had an illegitimate son, David Pantar, Bishop of Ross. This occurred before her 1st marriage.3,4 She married William Todrig, Burgess of Edinburgh before 8 February 1506.7,3,4 Margaret Crichton married George Halkerston, Burgess of Edinburgh before 13 July 1507; They had 1 son (James).8,3,4 Margaret Crichton married George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes, Sheriff of Fife, Ambassador to Denmark, son of William Leslie, 3rd Earl of Rothes and Margaret Balfour, between 1 April 1517 and August 1517; They had 3 sons (Norman, Master of Rothes; William; & Robert of Ardersier & Findrassie) & 2 dauthters (Janet, wife of David Crichton of Naughton, of John Grant of Freuchie, & of James Elphinstone; & Helen, wife of Gilbert Seton, & of Mark Ker).3,4 Margaret Crichton and George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes, Sheriff of Fife, Ambassador to Denmark were divorced on 27 December 1520.8,3,4 Margaret Crichton died between 31 May 1542 and 1546.3,4
William Todrig, Burgess of Edinburgh d. b 13 Jul 1507
George Halkerston, Burgess of Edinburgh d. 9 Sep 1513
George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes, Sheriff of Fife, Ambassador to Denmark d. 28 Nov 1558
Norman Leslie, Master of Rothes8 d. 1554
Helen Leslie+9 d. 26 Oct 1594
Robert Leslie, 1st Laird of Findrassie+1 b. c 1519, d. 22 Sep 1588
Janet Leslie b. c 1522, d. 17 Dec 1591
[S11565] The Scots Peerage, Vol. III, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 66-68.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 664-665.
[S11563] The Scots Peerage, Vol. I, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 20.
Anne Belknap1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
F, #39349, d. between 1521 and 26 December 1523
Father Henry Belknap, Esq.1,2,3,11,5,12,7,8,13,10 b. c 1419, d. 3 Jul 1488
Mother Margaret Knollys14,2,11,5,12,13,10 d. a 3 Jul 1488
Anne Belknap married Sir Robert Wotton, Sheriff of Kent, Lt. of Guisnes, Comptroller of Calais, son of Nicholas Wotton, Esq. and Elizabeth Bamborough, circa 1488; They had 6 sons (Sir Edward; Anthony; Leonard; Nicholas, Dean of Canterbury; Robert; & George) and 3 daughters (Idonea, wife of Thomas Norton, Esq; Margaret, wife of Sir Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, Lord Ferrers; & Mary, wife of Sir Henry Guildford, & of Sir Gawen Carew).1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Anne Belknap died between 1521 and 26 December 1523; Buried in the church of the Carmelite Friars, Calais, next to her husband, after he died.2,5,10
Sir Robert Wotton, Sheriff of Kent, Lt. of Guisnes, Comptroller of Calais b. 1465, d. 1524
Margaret Wotton+1,2,16,3,5,7,8,10 b. c 1490, d. a 1537
Isobel Lundie1
Isobel Lundie Called Margaret Lundy by Burke.2 She married Sir David Lindsay, 8th Earl of Crawford, son of Alexander Lindsay, 7th Earl of Crawford and Isobel Campbell, before 1529.1 Isobel Lundie married George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes, Sheriff of Fife, Ambassador to Denmark, son of William Leslie, 3rd Earl of Rothes and Margaret Balfour, before 10 April 1543.
Sir David Lindsay, 8th Earl of Crawford d. 27 Nov 1542 or 28 Nov 1542
Christian Wood1
Last Edited 4 Jun 2005
Christian Wood married George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes, Sheriff of Fife, Ambassador to Denmark, son of William Leslie, 3rd Earl of Rothes and Margaret Balfour. Christian Wood The marriage between Christian and George Leslie may not have occurred.2 She married George Strang; Her 2nd marriage.1
George Strang
[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. XI, p. 193.
[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. XI, p. 192-193, notes.
Michael Balfour1
M, #39352, d. 29 November 1577
Father David Balfour, Laird of Burleigh d. b 1531
Mother Agnes Forrester d. a 1531
Michael Balfour was born at of Burleigh, Scotland.1 He married Christian Bethune, daughter of Sir John Bethune, 2nd Laird of Creich and Janet Hay, before 1545.1,2 Michael Balfour died on 29 November 1577.2
Christian Bethune
Margaret Balfour+2 d. 1590
[S11581] Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerages, p. 20.
Sir Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, Duke of Suffolk, Lord Bonville, Harington, & Ferrers of Groby1,2,3,4,5,6,7
M, #39353, b. 17 January 1517, d. 23 February 1554
Father Sir Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, Lord Ferrers, Harington, & Bonville, Joint Constable of Warwick Castle1,8,9,10 b. 22 Jun 1477, d. 10 Oct 1530
Mother Margaret Wotton1,8,9,10 b. c 1490, d. a 1537
Sir Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, Duke of Suffolk, Lord Bonville, Harington, & Ferrers of Groby was born on 17 January 1517.1 He married Katherine FitzAlan, daughter of Sir William FitzAlan, 23rd (18th) Earl of Arundel, Chief Butler of England, Lord Maltravers and Anne Percy, before 1530.11 Sir Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, Duke of Suffolk, Lord Bonville, Harington, & Ferrers of Groby married Frances Brandon, daughter of Sir Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Viscount Lisle, Governor of Tournai, Ambassador to France, Earl Marshal and Mary Tudor, in May 1533; They had 3 daughters (Jane, wife of Guildford Dudley, Esq; Katherine, wife of Henry Herbert, & of Sir Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford; & Mary, wife of Capt. Thomas Keys, Esq.)11,2,3,4,5,6,7 Sir Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, Duke of Suffolk, Lord Bonville, Harington, & Ferrers of Groby died on 23 February 1554 at Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England, at age 37; Beheaded; d.s.p.m.1,3,4,6
Katherine FitzAlan d. a 1552
Frances Brandon b. 16 Jul 1517, d. 21 Nov 1559
Jane Grey, Queen of England12,11,3,13,6 b. Oct 1537, d. 12 Feb 1554
Katherine Grey+14,3,13,6 b. Aug 1540, d. 27 Jan 1568
[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 168-169.
[S11572] The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, by Gerald Paget, Vol. II, p. 33.
David Lindsay, 2nd Lord Lindsay of the Byres1
Father Sir John Lindsay, 1st Lord of Byres d. 6 Feb 1482
Mother (Miss) Stewart1
David Lindsay, 2nd Lord Lindsay of the Byres married Janet Ramsay, daughter of Walter Ramsay.1 David Lindsay, 2nd Lord Lindsay of the Byres died in 1490; d.s.p.1
Janet Ramsay
John Lindsay, 3rd Lord Lindsay of the Byres1
Last Edited 30 Jan 2017
M, #39355, d. after 25 May 1496
John Lindsay, 3rd Lord Lindsay of the Byres married Mariot Baillie, daughter of Sir William Baillie.1 John Lindsay, 3rd Lord Lindsay of the Byres died after 25 May 1496; d.s.p.m.1
Mariot Baillie
Margaret Lindsay+2
Janet Lindsay+3 b. c 1498
[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VIII, p. 140.
[S11597] Ancestry.com, Information submitted by warnerjo_1.
Patrick Lindsay, 4th Lord Lindsay of the Byres1
Patrick Lindsay, 4th Lord Lindsay of the Byres married Isabella Pitcairn, daughter of Henry Pitcairn, 10th Laird of Pitcairn and Elizabeth Ramsay, circa 1450.1 Patrick Lindsay, 4th Lord Lindsay of the Byres died in 1526 at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland.1
Isabella Pitcairn b. c 1430, d. a 1526
Sir John Lindsay, Master of Lindsay+1 d. 1525
Jean Lindsay+2 b. c 1451
Nicholas Wotton, Esq.1,2,3
M, #39357, d. 9 April 1481
Father Nicholas Wotton, Lord Mayor of London1
Mother Joan Corbie1
Nicholas Wotton, Esq. was born at of Bocton Malherbe, Kent, England.1 He married Elizabeth Bamborough, daughter of John Bamborough, Esq.1,2,3 Nicholas Wotton, Esq. died on 9 April 1481.1
Elizabeth Bamborough
Sir Robert Wotton, Sheriff of Kent, Lt. of Guisnes, Comptroller of Calais+1,2,3 b. 1465, d. 1524
Denise fil Thomas1,2,3
Father Thomas ap Philip Vaughn4,2,3
Mother Mary Hackluyt5
Denise fil Thomas was born at of Iscoed, Wales.1 She married Sir Roger Vaughan, son of Sir Roger Vaughan and Gwladys Gam.1,2,3
Sir Roger Vaughan b. c 1404, d. 26 Jul 1469
Eleanor Vaughan+1
Sir Thomas Vaughan+ b. c 1423, d. 1494
Sir Roger Vaughan+2,3 b. c 1436, d. b 25 Sep 1514
Gwenllian Vaughan+6 b. c 1442
Maud Vaughan+ b. c 1447
[S11572] The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, by Gerald Paget, Vol. II, p. 404, 445.
[S11572] The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, by Gerald Paget, Vol. II, 445, 483.
[S11588] Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 120.
Nicholas Wotton, Lord Mayor of London1
Nicholas Wotton, Lord Mayor of London Lord Mayor in 1415 and 1430.1 He married Joan Corbie, daughter of Robert Corbie.1
Joan Corbie
Nicholas Wotton, Esq.+1 d. 9 Apr 1481


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In the past I already tried to get Ephesoft (The open source, web based mailroom automation tool) and Alfresco (the open source content management solution) running in a single Tomcat instance. On Ubuntu, and starting with the Alfresco instance, copying Ephesoft into there. For all kind of distracting reasons (among others writing 4 blogs simultaniously) this failed. This blog will describe a successful attempt to install both into a single Tomcat on Windows.
Why? Because it seems convenient for a demo, not to have to start a VMWare image next to two applications.


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Biobasecamp
Building against climate change
At the Dutch Design Week 2019, Studio Marco Vermeulen built the Biobasecamp, a pavilion that gives architectural expression to the contribution that 'building with trees' can make to reducing the amount of CO2 and nitrogen in the atmosphere through replacing conventional building materials such as concrete and steel with wood.
The Biobasecamp generates a starting point of exploration for designers and clients towards the possibilities that this "concrete of the future" offers. To compare this pavilion with the Crystal Palace built in 1851 in world exhibition in Hyde Park (London) and symbolized the industrial revolution is of course far too pretentious. But may this pavilion similarly mark the possible turning point for a new era!
Among other things as a result of the Biobasecamp at Dutch Designweek, the episode "Houtbouwers" from VPRO Tegenlicht was produced, which can be seen via: www.vpro.nl /wood builders.html.
A timelapse of the construction of the pavilion can be seen at marcovermeulen.eu
VPRO Tegenlicht episode "Houtbouwers"
One of the main climate objectives is the reduction of our CO2 emissions. But can we also extract CO2 from the atmosphere at the same time? This is possible at high costs and in limited scale through machines currently being developed. However, there is still no machine as cheap and efficient as the tree. We learn early in school that trees convert CO2, under the influence of sunlight, into glucose to grow. When trees die and decay, this CO2 is released again. When we burn wood and use it to generate electricity and heat up our homes, the stored CO2 is also released. However, if we make building materials out of it, we can capture and store CO2 for dozens, perhaps hundreds of years!
In other words: by building with wood, CO2 is actually extracted from the atmosphere. In contrast to, for example, costly storage under the North Sea (CCS), this form of CO2 storage creates value in the form of buildings. The construction sector can thus play an active role in the fight against climate change. That is certainly true now that the Netherlands is on the eve of a huge housing challenge; one million houses have to be built in the Netherlands in the next 20 years. In addition, a large part of the existing homes must be made energy efficient. Both assignments act as a powerful driver for the transition to a biobased economy.
The pavilion deck is made up of large modular, removable floor parts made of cross-layer glued wood, called Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) in jargon. After Dutch Design Week, these can be reused as floor elements in, for example, new homes. The used cross-layer wood is made in a German factory from German softwood. But why is there no Dutch cross layer timber yet? By creating more economic value for wood, more forests can also be planted. The building assignment can in this way contribute to combating climate change and the quality of the Dutch landscape. This may also apply to the Brabant poplar landscape that originated for the production of clogs and matches. That is why the deck of the Biobasecamp is supported by strains of poplars that were recently on the A2 motorway near Boxtel, but had to be cleared due to their age and the associated risk of being blown over.
The emission of nitrogen over the entire construction chain is also many times lower in bio-based building than in the traditional building process. This is mainly due to the reduction of construction site handling when dealing with the prefabricated building components. In addition, biobased material is a lot lighter, which means that less energy, and with that, less nitrogen emissions, is required for transportation. In conjunction with actions such as shrinking the existing livestock and lowering the road speed limits, biobased building is a crucial piece of the puzzle in solving the current nitrogen crisis.
For almost all building parts there are bio-based alternatives such as wood wool and cellulose for insulation, and hemp fiber and flax as biocomposite elements. But especially the use of solid timber for the structural shell - the walls, floors and the roof -, is a highly potent material. Fast-growing wood can be sawn and glued in perpendicular layers, creating large sheets with different thicknesses, aptly named cross-laminated timber (CLT). These large structural elements can be industrially manufactured into the desired shape and provided with recesses for windows and pipes through CNC milling. These elements are then assembled "dry" at the construction site. This construction method is still in its infancy in the Netherlands, but its implementation in Austria and Germany, for example, shows the possibilities for faster construction speed, lower construction costs and better working conditions for construction workers. In addition, solid wood construction has a tactile quality and promotes a pleasant indoor climate. By making solid wooden elements modular, they can also be easily replaced or adjusted, which increases the flexibility of use. When a CLT building is no longer adequate, it can be dismantled relatively easily and its modular elements can be reused and reintegrated in a new building. If the wooden elements can no longer be re-implemented, they can be recycled into low-grade wood products such as veneer, chipboard and insulation material.
The construction sector is responsible for a large portion of global CO2 emissions. The global pressure on natural resources is also high: 40% is used in construction. In the Netherlands, that amounts to 250 million tonnes of raw materials per year needed for infrastructure, residential and non-residential construction. In addition, the construction sector is overheated and qualified personnel are scarce causing prices to rise. Change in the construction sector is therefore necessary in order to realize the vast amount of new housing required. Building with wood offers an alternative whereby the total production capacity can be increased. Prefabrication and simple assembly methods can also increase construction speed.
Where then do we get all that wood? The Netherlands has a total of 365,000 hectares of forest, more than half of which originated as production forest used for firewood and previously in timbering mine tunnels. 225,000 hectares of Dutch forests are now protected nature areas. The remaining 140,000 hectares of forest can be used for the sustainable production of wood, as is often the case in Scandinavia. This means that trees are harvested in a limited and selective way and replaced by young specimens of the same or different species. This yields an average wood harvest of 8m3 per hectare per year, with poplars even up to 15m3 per hectare per year. This amounts to an annual production of 1.12 million m3 of wood. By diversifying the size and type of forest plantations, we add ecological, landscape and recreational value the often monotonous forests. This also benefits soil life that suffers from nitrogen emissions from traffic, the bio-industry and (conventional) construction.
An average of 50 m3 of wood is required for the construction of a home. That means that we can make 22,400 homes from Dutch wood every year and will require 45 years for the realization of 1 million "home-grown" homes. In other words: 60 homes per day "grow" in the Dutch forests. If we want to speed up production, or use the available wood for other purposes, we can import wood or plant more forests. Higher demand for wood therefore does not lead to clearing, but to more and better forests! Adding value to forestry is also an incentive for parts of the Netherlands that suffer from poor soil quality, low spatial quality and/or a declining agricultural economy. Perhaps we may even live in these new forests. Building with wood could therefore make the Netherlands more beautiful!
How do we kick start the transition to using biobased materials? After all, we are used to building with concrete, stone and steel in the Netherlands, with wood yet to prove itself here. A number of exemplary projects must therefore be realized quickly. Preferably entire neighborhoods should be built so to benefit from the economy of scale of prefabrication and to give the construction chain the chance to organize itself in the Netherlands. Governments can also play an important role in this by making building sites available under the condition that only biobased materials are used for construction.
The demand for biobased material use in construction will also increase if the price of traditional materials, such as cement, rises. The shortage of traditional raw materials will help, as well as the announced CO2 tax. And possibly storing CO2 in a building may even become a revenue model!
the trunks which were used as columns of the biobasecamp
ir. Marco Vermeulen, ir. Bram Willemse, ir. Joost van der Waal, Msc. M.Arch. Bertus van Woerden, ir. Joyce Langezaal, BSc. Jasper Veldhuis, MSc. Joshua Ho, MSc. Francisco Monsalve
Arup Structural Engineering Pavillion
Lüning Structural Engineering Stairs
Derix Laminated Timber CLT
BLC de Kruijff Structural steel elements
Brabantse Populieren Vereniging Trees
Blok Timmeratelier Traditional
roof park
Dutch Design Foundation
oct '19
Grand Opening Dutch Design Week 2019 on the Biobasecamp
Marco Vermeulen features on TV show on the chances of building with wood
Timelapse Biobasecamp on website Dutch Design Week
Four Centuries of Military Inundations
Region 's-Hertogenbosch
Towards a circular building economy
SUPERvillage
Klavertje 4 Greenport Venlo
Cradle to Cradle working landscape for Greenport
Ecoducts
a design for a green corridor constructed out of logs over the Greenportlane
Biesbosch Museum Island
Building, interior, exhibition, water playground and freshwater tidal park
Studio Marco Vermeulen is a design office for architecture, urban design, landscape and design research. We are located at an outer dike location alongside the river Maas in the center of Rotterdam.
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Parfait Onanga-Anyanga of Gabon as his Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Workneh Gebeyehu Negewo of Ethiopia as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi.
Following her nomination by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the General Assembly today elected Inger Andersen of Denmark to a four‑year term as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).


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Surfnetkids » Resources » History, Holidays » Veterans Day
November 7, 2017 by Barbara Feldman
In 1918, at the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, fighting ceased in World War I. Formerly known as Armistice Day, Veterans Day (November 11) is a day to honor veterans living and dead who have given so much to protect our country. And, in case you were wondering, Veterans Day is spelled without an apostrophe because the day doesn't belong to veterans, it is a celebration of them.
Veterans Day Resource Handout for Classroom or Homeschool: Just $2.00
Library of Congress: Veterans History Project5 stars
"The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war." The project includes stories told through correspondence, personal narrative and photos or drawings. It covers six wars, starting with World War I (1914-1920) and including the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts that began in 2001.
History: Veterans Day Facts5 stars
"Unlike Memorial Day, Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans – living or dead – but especially gives thanks to living veterans who served their country honorably during war or peacetime." Visit for a video explaining "the many contributions of America's armed forces throughout the country's history," and a list of quick (easy to understand) facts.
Quote Garden: Quotations for Veterans Day4 stars
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~ José Narosky" "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy" Although there are other sites that have more quotes, I picked this one because this batch of quotes focuses on honoring our veterans. For related quotes, click on USA Patriotic, Armed Forces Day or Memorial Day.
Veteran Affairs: Celebrating America's Freedoms5 stars
Created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Celebrating America's Freedoms is a collection of articles about many of America's customs and national symbols. Topics include the history of Taps, the Pledge of Allegiance, The Star Spangled Banner, American flag etiquette and more. For Veterans Day, visit The Origins of Veterans Day and Activities for Veterans Day. Download each article as an individual PDF or the entire collection as one fifty-two page PDF. Look for the entire collection link at the bottom of the table of contents.
The following links are either new discoveries or sites that didn't make it into my newspaper column because of space constraints. Enjoy!
Ducksters: Veterans Day
Veterans Day Facts
Veterans Day Activities, Grades K–5
Veterans Day Crafts, Projects, Worksheets, Books, and Printouts
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All instruments are double coat sealed with a clear coat epoxy for moisture protection and durability, and the exteriors are de-glossed for a more natural appearance. I've decided to put the same price on all of my instruments. I can adjust prices if you want more than one, or if you have some circumstance where you'd like to ask the universe to just give you a break. AUM.


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Juicy J Is Going on Rubba Band Business Tour With Belly
Instagram via Juicy J
On Monday (Nov. 14), Juicy J announced his upcoming Rubba Band Business tour, which looks to support his upcoming album of the same name. You can peep the promotional poster for yourself up top with tour dates included below. Toronto artist Belly will join Juicy for the tour.
If you're looking for an incredibly turnt show to go to, the Rubba Band Business tour is probably for you. Belly is coming off the recent release of his banger-filled latest project, InZombia, which features appearances by Young Thug, Future, Jadakiss and Ty Dolla $ign. Juicy J is surfing a wave of momentum two months after the release of his Must Be Nice mixtape, so going on tour with Belly makes plenty of sense. A few days ago, he continued his epic run by appearing on Robin Thicke's party anthem of a single, "One Shot." You can check out the track for yourself here.
Earlier this year, Juicy announced he'd be dropping his official Rubba Band Business album for fall 2016. He recently released his collab with Kanye West called "Ballin" months after dropping a single with Travis Scott called "No English."
The Rubba Band Business tour should continue pushing Belly right along in his ascent to rap stardom. The Canadian rapper is a dynamic musical talent who already had writing credits on The Weeknd's Beauty Behind the Madness before he signed to Roc Nation in late 2015. In an interview, Belly told DJ Whoo Kid that it was Jay Z's interest in his holistic development that made him comfortable signing with the record label.
"He never brought up the business one time in the first conversation we ever had," Belly said back in July. "He was never like, 'Yo here's what I can do for you, here are the budgets.' None of that. We had a life conversation. When I left, I was like, 'That's somebody who's more concerned with me as a brand than just a moment or just a single. That's what really made me feel comfortable going [with Roc Nation]."
Jan. 26 - Phoeniz, Ariz. - Celebrity Theatre
Jan. 27 - Las Vegas, Nev. - Brooklyn Bowl
Jan. 29 - Boise, Idaho - Revolution Event Center
Jan. 30 - Seattle, Wash. - Neptune Theatre
Feb. 1 - Sacramento, Calif. - Ace of Spades
Feb. 2 - San Francisco, Calif. - The Regency Ballroom
Feb. 3 - Riverside, Calif. - Riverside Municipal Auditorium
Feb. 4 - Hollywood, Calif. - Hollywood Palladium
Feb. 8 - San Diego, Calif. - House of Blues
Feb. 10 - Denver, Colo. - Fillmore Auditoriun
Feb. 12 - Austin, Texas - Emo's
Feb. 13 - San Antonio, Texas - The Aztec Theater
Feb. 14. - Dallas, Texas - House of Blues
Feb. 15. Wichita, Kan. - Cotillion Bathroom
Feb. 17 - Houston, Texas - House of Blues
Feb. 18 - Tulsa, Okla. - Cain's Ballroom
Feb. 20 - Memphis, Tenn. - Minglewood Hall
Feb. 21. - Nashville, Tenn. - Marathon Music Works
Feb. 23 - Atlanta, Geor. - The Tabernacle
Feb. 24 - North Myrtle Beach, S.C - House of Blues
Feb. 25 - Charlotte, N.C. - The Fillmore Charlotte
Feb. 26 - Raleigh, N.C. - The Ritz
March 1 - Philadelphia, Penn. - The Fillmore
March 2 - New York, N.Y. - Irving Plaza
March 3 - Silver Spring, Md. - The Fillmore
March 4 - Montclair, N.J. - The Wellmont Theater
March 6 - Boston, Mass. - House of Blues
March 7 - Pittsburgh, Penn. - Stage AE
March 9 - Cleveland, Ohio - House of Blues
March 10 - Detroit, Mich. - Fillmore Detroit
March 11 - Grand Rapids, Mich. - 20 Monroe Live
March 12 - Indianapolis, Ind. - Egyption Room at Old National Centre
March 15 - Kansas City, Miss. - Uptown Theatre
March 16 - st. Paul, Minn. - Myth
March 17 - Chicago, Ill. - House of Blues
March 18 - Milwaukee, Wisc. - Rave
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Spotlight on November Books
"Corvus" by Paul Kearney (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)...
"Surface Detail" by Iain M Banks (Reviewed by Livi...
"Disciple of the Dog" by R. Scott Bakker (Reviewed...
"Hatter M: The Nature of Wonder" by Frank Beddor, ...
"Literary Fiction" for SFF Lovers (by Liviu Suciu)...
"Wintertide" by Michael Sullivan (Reviewed by Livi...
Five Capsule Reviews: Harry Turtledove, Chris Wood...
"Mob Rules" by Cameron Haley (Reviewed by Mihir Wa...
"Trespass" by Rose Tremain (Reviewed by Liviu Suci...
My Anticipated Books of 2010 Revisited (by Liviu S...
GIVEAWAY: Win a Set of the Elemental Assassin Book...
Interview with Jennifer Estep (Interview by Mihir ...
"Festival of Skeletons" by RJ Astruc (Reviewed by ...
"In a Strange Room" by Damon Galgut (Reviewed by ...
Cindy Hannikman Cybil Awards 2010 First Round Pane...
"The King's Bastard: King Rolen's Kin #1" by Rowen...
Odds and Ends: 2010 Booker Prize and compiling a l...
"The Half Made World" by Felix Gilman (Reviewed by...
The Top Books of 2008 Revisited (by Liviu Suciu)
Two Capsule Reviews: "The Crowfield Curse" by Pat ...
"Skywatcher" by Jon Connington (Reviewed by Liviu ...
"The Notebook" by Agota Kristof (Reviewed by Liviu...
"The Spirit Thief" by Rachel Aaron (Reviewed by Mi...
"Passion Play" by Beth Bernobich (Reviewed by Robe...
"Voltaire's Calligrapher" by Pablo De Santis (Revi...
Guest Author Post: Cinda Williams Chima "World Bui...
"Discord's Apple" by Carrie Vaughn (Reviewed by Mi...
Odds and Ends: My New Top 10 Anticipated Novels Fr...
Spotlight on October Books
This month Robert Thompson provided most of the book titles with additions by Cindy Hannikman, Liviu Suciu and Mihir Wanchoo. We are featuring 48 books. This month there were considerably more new sff releases but we tried to limit ourselves to a reasonable number and we chose the books most in tune with what's reviewed here.
The release dates are US unless marked otherwise and the books are first edition unless noted differently. The dates are on a best known basis so they are not guaranteed; same about the edition information. Since information sometimes is out of date even in the Amazon/Book Depository links we use for listings, books get delayed or sometimes even released earlier, we would truly appreciate if you would send us an email about any listing with incorrect information.
Sometimes a cover image is not available at the time of the post and also sometimes covers change unexpectedly so while we generally use the Amazon one when available and cross check with Google Images, the ultimate bookstore cover may be different.
"The Habitation of the Blessed" by Catherynne M. Valente. Release Date: November 1, 2010.
"Under the Poppy" by Kate Koja. Release Date: November 1, 2010.
"Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded" edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer. November 1, 2010.
"Flaming Zeppelins: The Adventures of Ned the Seal" by Joe R. Lansdale. November 1, 2010.
"Amortals" by Matt Forbeck. UK Release Date: November 1, 2010.
"Holiday" by M. Rickert. Release Date: November 1, 2010.
"Angelica Lost and Found" by Russell Hoban. Release Date: November 1, 2010.
"Towers of Midnight" by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson. November 2, 2010.
"Echo" by Jack McDevitt. Release Date: November 2, 2010.
"Pegasus" by Robin McKinley. Release Date: November 2, 2010.
"Gilded Latten Bones" by Glen Cook. Release Date: November 2, 2010.
"The Horns of Ruin" by Tim Akers. Release Date: November 2, 2010.
"The Greyfriar" by Clay & Susan Griffith. Release Date: November 2, 2010.
"Fated" by S.G. Browne. Release Date: November 2, 2010.
"The Ring of Solomon" by Jonathan Stroud. Release Date: November 2, 2010.
"The Broken Kingdoms" by N.K. Jemisin. Release Date: November 3, 2010.
"The Nemesis List" by R.J. Frith. UK Release Date: November 5, 2010.
"The Distant Hours" by Kate Morton. Release Date: November 9, 2010.
"Full Dark, No Stars" by Stephen King. Release Date: November 9, 2010.
"Empress of Eternity" by L. E. Modesitt Jr.. Release Date: November 9, 2010.
"Seed Seeker" by Pamela Sargent. Release Date: November 9, 2010.
"The Painted Darkness" by Brian James Freeman. Release Date: November 9, 2010.
"Money Shot" by Christopher Rowley. Release Date: November 9, 2010.
"The Flock" by James Robert Smith. Release Date: November 9, 2010.
"House of the Star" by Caitlin Brennan. Release Date: November 9, 2010.
"The Sentinels" by R.A. Salvatore & Geno Salvatore. Release Date: November 9, 2010.
"The Boy from Ilysies" by Pearl North. Release Date: November 9, 2010.
"Factotum" by D.M. Cornish. Release Date: November 11, 2010.
"The Painted Boy" by Charles de Lint. Release Date: November 11, 2010.
"Songs of Love and Death" ed. by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois. November 16, 2010.
"The House of Discarded Dreams" by Ekaterina Sedia. Release Date: November 16, 2010.
"The Way of the Wizard" edited by John Joseph Adams. Release Date: November 16, 2010.
"Luka and the Fire of Life" by Salman Rushdie. Release Date: November 16, 2010.
"Night Star" by Alyson Noel. Release Date: November 16, 2010.
"The Silent Land" by Graham Joyce. UK Release Date: November 18, 2010.
"Hull Zero Three" by Greg Bear. Release Date: November 22, 2010.
"Surrender to the Will of the Night" by Glen Cook. Release Date: November 23, 2010.
"Midsummer Night" by Freda Warrington. Release Date: November 23, 2010.
"Disciple of the Dog" by R. Scott Bakker. Release Date: November 23, 2010.
"Above His Proper Station" by Lawrence Watt-Evans. Release Date: November 23, 2010. (*)
"Stonewielder" by Ian C. Esslemont. UK Release Date: November 25, 2010.
"Shadowheart" by Tad Williams. Release Date: November 30, 2010.
"The Bone Palace" by Amanda Downum. Release Date: November 30, 2010.
"The Spirit Eater" by Rachel Aaron. Release Date: November 30, 2010.
"King's Wrath" by Fiona McIntosh. Release Date: November 30, 2010.
"Law of the Broken Earth" by Rachel Neumeier. Release Date: November 30, 2010.
"Guardians of the Phoenix" by Eric Brown. Release Date: November 30, 2010.
"The Wolf's Hour" by Robert McCammon. Release Date: November 30, 2010.
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"Corvus" by Paul Kearney (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
Official Paul Kearney Website
Order Corvus HERE
Read FBC Review of The Ten Thousand HERE
INTRODUCTION: Two years ago in the series debut The Ten Thousand, Paul Kearney created the secondary world of Kuf which has a large landmass populated by numerous people who are currently under the sway of the Assurian Empire. To the north and east, separated by various seas and the remote fastness of the Harukush Mountains, lies the home of the legendary Macht people—warriors of great renown and ferocity who are divided into various city states under the aegis of Machran. So the Greeks vs the Persian Empire with some little touches of the fantastic and a twist or two, but otherwise The Ten Thousand was a pretty faithful retelling of the classic story with the same name.
Speculative fiction allowing both historical time-compression and event simplifications, fast forward 23 years only - rather than the roughly 50-70 from the historical timeline - and several years of events rather than several decades and Corvus an enigmatic young military genius has appeared out of nowhere in the Macht lands and is taking over them with force and sweet words and this book is his first part of the story; in an excellent narrative choice, the story is told through the eyes of others, most notably the former commander of the Ten Thousand, Rictus now the most famous and acclaimed mercenary leader of the Macht.
FORMAT/CLASSIFICATION: Corvus stands at about 460 pages divided into 27 named chapters and an epilogue. The book starts with a map of Kuf. There are several threads with various POV's, most notably Rictus and his sidekick/sub-commander Fornyx, Karnos - the Speaker of the most important Macht city of Machran - Phaestus, a friend of Rictus and leader of another Macht city, the smaller but geographical crucial Hal Goshen, while of the women, Rictus' wife Aise and Karnos' fiance Kassia who is also the sister of Machran's army commander Kassander are the most prominent.
Corvus is military fantasy; it stands well on its own with a clear definite ending, though of course the story continues next spring/summer towards its logical destination in The Kings of Morning.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: "We just keep marching," Rictus said softly. "That is what we do. We carry the Curse of God on our backs and go into the dark together."
"Corvus" starts with Rictus in charge of his now large mercenary company, fighting successful campaign after successful campaign in the spring and summer for whichever Macht city pays best and returning to his wife and daughters in a hidden mountain cottage for the winter.
But now a young charismatic conqueror has appeared in the Macht lands and he is planning to unite them at sword point if need be; and of course Corvus needs Rictus for credibility and for other reasons that are pretty easy to guess once you advance a little in the book. The Macht love their "freedom", even if it is only the freedom to war among themselves and enslave or kill the weak, so the job is not easy.
"Corvus" is a page turner that will keep you hooked until the end even though you can easily guess its general thrust. It is also a novel of heroism and brutal fighting with explicit descriptions of gore, military camps, logistical considerations and life in a besieged city or in the besieging army.
Paul Kearney's major strength as storyteller of battles, fighting and war is on display here and as in all his previous similar work, whether in the just reprinted Monarchies of God series or in The Ten Thousand, he makes you root for both sides. The freedom loving Macht led by the city of Machran and its unlikely but brave and determined leader Karnos and the destiny man with a dream Corvus clash brutally and there can be only one winner; while we sort of know how it will end, the skill of the author is such that we are kept in suspense to the end and we somehow want both to win...
In addition to the big picture, there are several personal story-threads, some dark and violent, some domestic and of course the back story of Corvus himself - something not hard to guess anyway - but very well done and with great touches, not the least his Kufr Companion Cavalry and his reluctance to try his father's "Curse of God" black armor that is so prized among the Macht.
And in these side stories, we see the war and its human cost through the eyes of the women and children adding an extra dimension to the usual "band of brothers" blood-and-guts subgenre.
"Corvus" (A+) delivered what I expected of it with brio and reinforced the standing of Paul Kearney as a master of military fantasy.
"Surface Detail" by Iain M Banks (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
Official Iain Banks Website
Iain Banks at Wikipedia
Order "Surface Detail" HERE
Read FBC Review of 'Transition"
INTRODUCTION: Iain M. Banks' early Culture books, "Use of Weapons", "Consider Phlebas" and "The Player of Games" as well as the standalone "Against a Dark Background" are among my top sff books of all time, with "Use of Weapons" (which I hope to review by year-end) still at #1 after 18 years since my first read and many re-reads in the meantime.
Last year's Transition was my number 1 sff novel of the year and this year Surface Detail will be most likely #1 sff of the year. Actually as structure goes, Transition was a pretty complex novel that required at least one reread for full appreciation, while Surface Detail is straightforward, though of course rereading it brings a fuller appreciation.
Surface Detail is also a Culture novel, the best since the early three and the first in which the global vision of the Culture as part of a well developed galactic community that started in Excession and Look to Windward, while being explicitly articulated in Matter, pays off big time.
I have seen before this attempt to proceed from relatively local adventure novels like the first three Culture books, to having a fully developed coherent "big picture" framework as in Matter and Surface Detail and it is not easy, but when it succeeds, it does big-time.
Because beyond being a very entertaining novel, Surface Detail is much more, an articulated vision of an Universe that while purely materialistic as far as its inhabitants know, allows the major goodies associated with traditional religion: souls, afterlife, though of course logically it has some of its drawbacks like Hell(s). All of course was implied from the first Culture novel (Consider Phlebas), but here and in Matter the edifice hinted before is explicitly built.
FORMAT/CLASSIFICATION: Surface Detail stands at about 630 pages divided into twenty nine chapters, the usual IM Banks "what happened later with the characters" coda and a tongue-in-cheek epilogue that was hinted already in chapter two; I considered the possibility slightly far-fetched at the time, though there was a general "you know, it actually could be" feeling there. About what, well read the book to find out...
Surface Detail has several threads with all kinds of POV's: humans in the extended Culture sense like Ledejde - the "ingenue" decided on justice at all costs, even if it's inconvenient for the great and the good like the mighty Culture itself, Vateuil, "the ultimate warrior", Veppers, "the businessman from hell" - not quite literally, but close and Yime, "the Culture agent", non-human quadrepds "Pavuleans" Prin and Chay who take a literal journey in (the Pavulean) Hell and the "elfin" Legislator-Admiral Bettlescroy-Bisspe-Blispin III and of course the Culture Ships/Minds of which the The Abominator-class picket ship Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints and its bad boy avatar Demeisen take over the novel alongside Veppers.
Surface Detail is readable perfectly well on its own though a familiarity with the rest of the Culture novels only adds to its enjoyment.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: The main idea of Surface Detail can be summarized simply: the laws of the Universe allow mind-states aka "materialistic souls" and any sufficiently advanced civilization can build a virtual afterlife since physical immortality in the Real is still undesirable due to issues like finiteness of space and resources. Some of course build Heavens, but some build Hells too...
Of course many of the most advanced (stage 7 and 8) civilizations object to the existence of Hells and the Culture is the most powerful of such, but unfortunately some events recounted in "Look to Windward" made it recuse itself from the debate for a while now. When the Pro-Hell and Anti-Hell forces decide to fight a virtual war - "The War in Heaven for the fate of the Hells" - to decide the issue for ever, the Culture (officially) stands on the sideline which gives an unexpected edge to the Pro-Hell side. And of course like all virtual contests, the result needs to be accepted by both parties since after all there is the Real where the war may otherwise spill with potentially catastrophic consequences.
While not directly involved with the war - except for Vateuil whose career as AntiHell grunt-to-marshal is recounted in his thread - all the characters above will nonetheless play an important role in its context and resolution.
I will let the three characters that dominate the novel speak for themselves:
Ledejde:
"All those years, all those times I tried to run away, the one thing nobody ever asked me was where I might be running to." She smiled a small, thin smile at the avatar, who looked surprised now. "If they had asked," Lededje told her, "I might even have told them: I was running away to the Culture, because I'd heard they'd escaped the tyranny of money and individual power, and that all people were equal here, men and women alike, with no riches or poverty to put one person above or beneath another." "But now you're here?" Sensia offered, sounding sad. "But now I'm here I find Joiler Veppers is still deferred to because he is a rich and powerful man."
Veppers (full quote here):
There was nothing worse, Veppers thought, than a loser who'd made it. It was just part of the way things worked – part of the complexity of life, he supposed – that sometimes somebody who absolutely deserved nothing more than to be one of the down-trodden, the oppressed, the dregs of society, lucked out into a position of wealth, power and admiration. ..... Still, at least individual losers were quite obviously statistical freaks. You could allow for that, you could tolerate that, albeit with gritted teeth. What he would not have believed was that you could find an entire society – an entire civilization– of losers who'd made it. And the Culture was exactly that.
Demeisen:
"What, this?" he said, looking down at the ash-dark burn on his skin as Lededje stared at it, openly aghast. "Don't worry; I don't feel a thing." He laughed. "The idiot inside here does though." He tapped the side of his head, smiled again. "Poor fool won some sort of competition to replace a ship's avatar for a hundred days or a year or something similar. No control over either body or ship whatsoever, obviously, but the full experience in other respects – sensations, for example. I'm told he practically came in his pants when he learned an up-to-date warship had volunteered to accept his offer of body host." The smile became broader, more of a grin. "Obviously not the most zealous student of ship psychology, then. So," Demeisen said, holding up his hand with the splinted finger and studying it, "I torment the poor fool."
This is not say that the rest of the cast, especially Vateuil, Yime, Prin and Chay do not have important complementary roles but for me those three elevated the novel beyond all recent Culture novels which lacked precisely that: powerful, larger than life characters and here we have Veppers and Demeisen, while Ledejde is the most sympathetic Banksian character in a while for her quiet determination.
I talked about world building and sense of wonder in the introduction, while the coming together of the various threads is handled very well but I would like to add that there are so many great touches that I could fill two pages talking about them and those give Surface Detail a very rich texture. The novel has a lot of humor and I found myself laughing out loud at quite a few scenes, with the quotes above just a small sample.
If there is one negative is that the whole is somewhat less than the sum of the parts in the sense that each thread is very engrossing and with lots of specific goodies - the Pavulean Hell, the virtual War, the Unfallen Bulbitian and the Tsungarial Disk have each their goodies so to speak, in addition to the awesome stuff in the threads following Veppers, Ledejde and Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints/Demeisen - but the main story is quite straightforward. So in a sense you could look at Surface Detail as a core-story with beautiful ornate wrappings which one enjoys more in themselves than as part of a larger tapestry.
But that does not matter since Surface Detail (A++) is as good as speculative fiction on a large scale and about "big issues" gets from all points of view: great writing, powerful characters, coherent and detailed world building and just sheer sense of wonder and inventiveness. If you want to experience the best that sf has to offer these days and understand why written sf is still such a vital part of the "landscape of imagination", Surface Detail is the one 2010 novel for you. And the book has the added bonus that you can start exploring IM Banks' wonderful Culture universe just by reading it, even if you have not read previous Culture novels.
"Disciple of the Dog" by R. Scott Bakker (Reviewed by Robert Thompson)
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AUTHOR INFORMATION: R. Scott Bakker is the author of The Prince of Nothing fantasy trilogy and the crime thriller, Neuropath (Reviewed HERE). The White Luck Warrior, the second volume in The Aspect-Emperor trilogy after The Judging Eye, will be published in 2011.
PLOT SUMMARY: Imagine being able to remember everything you've ever experienced. This is the lonely world inhabited by Disciple Manning. He is able to recall every conversation, meeting and feeling he has ever had with 100% accuracy. It is more a curse than a blessing, but it makes Disciple a dangerous private investigator.
So when Jonathan and Amanda Bonjour come into his office, Disciple knows immediately it's about a missing child. He's had many cases like this before, and they never end well. Accepting the case to find the Bonjour's missing daughter, Disciple travels to Ruddick, Pennsylvania and to the compound of a charismatic cult known as the Framers, who believe that the world is more than five billion years older than it is and is about to be engulfed by the sun. In that very same town, a neo-Nazi religious organization calling themselves the Church of the Third Resurrection, has also taken root.
Soon, Disciple's investigation leads to clashes with the unsettling belief systems of both the cult and the church, leaving him fighting for survival and elusive answers before they are swallowed into a shadowy pool of secrets. Meanwhile, it is only a matter of time before the missing girl risks being abandoned forever to the depths of everyone's forgotten memories...
CLASSIFICATION: Featuring a first-person narrative drenched in cynicism, a noir-esque mystery to solve, and sarcastic humor, Disciple of the Dog is a contemporary private eye novel influenced by the classics, but stamped with R. Scott Bakker's own unique flavor.
FORMAT/INFO: Disciple of the Dog is 288 pages long divided over fourteen chapters (tracks) with titles like "One Hundred Thousand Cigarettes" and "The Law of Social Gravitation". Narration is in the first-person exclusively via the private investigator, Disciple Manning. Disciple of the Dog is a standalone novel, but could easily be the first volume in a series of Disciple Manning books.
November 23, 2010 marks the US Hardcover publication of Disciple of the Dog via Forge. The UK version (See image below) was published in both Hardcover and Trade Paperback format on September 16, 2010 via Orion, while the Canadian version was published on August 31, 2010 via Penguin Canada.
ANALYSIS: R. Scott Bakker may be best known for his Prince of Nothing/Aspect-Emperor fantasy novels, but as he demonstrated with the thought-provoking crime thriller, Neuropath, the author is no one trick pony. So I was pretty interested to see what R. Scott Bakker would do with his second non-fantasy book, Disciple of the Dog.
In Disciple of the Dog, R. Scott Bakker tackles the private eye genre, delivering a novel that is at once familiar because of the first-person narrative, cynical protagonist, the noir-esque mystery and sarcastic humor, but still unique because of the character, Disciple Manning, and his extraordinary ability:
"The thing to remember about me is that I don't forget . . . Anything.
It all comes back, endlessly repeating, circumstances soaked in passion. Love. Terror. Disgust. A life crushed in the wheels of perpetual living."
Thanks to his unique ability of remembering everything, Disciple Manning is instantly different from other fictional private investigators, and, in my opinion, much more interesting. For one, his ability offers a logical explanation for why he's such a cynical individual. It also explains his love for women—but why he can never have a lasting relationship—why he hates people, and why he's a "chronic weed smoker". But his ability does more than just add insight into his character; it infuses Disciple Manning's personality with a fascinating individuality that is present throughout the novel. Like knowing the exact number of cigarettes he's smoked or the number of women he's slept with (558); how he's seen the same facial expressions so many times that he's given them titles such as Classic Feminine Disgust, Atypical Bewildered Fury, or High Pity; and how he can playback a past conversation—what Disciple calls "postconversation reveries"—to capture nuances and details that he missed the first time. Best of all, Disciple Manning's ability gives him a unique perspective on life which he expresses through a variety of compelling monologues, observations and "pearls of cynical wisdom":
"One of the great paradoxes of being human has got to be the way the past is as much at the mercy of the present as the present is at the mercy of the past. As soon as we ziplock something in memory, it becomes static, something that we can run circles around. Considered from this standpoint, it really does seem that everything we do is fraught with decisions, as if every moment were a window onto thousands of future possibilities, instead of automatic and obscure."
"If there's one thing Hollywood is good at, it's giving us roles to play. Everyone loves to pretend they're in a movie, no matter where you go in the world. Good thing, too. If it wasn't movies, then it would be some pyschotic legend from the Middle Ages—or worse yet, scripture."
"Rule one of all private investigating is that everyone, but everyone, is full of shit."
Of course, Disciple Manning would not be nearly as interesting if not for R. Scott Bakker's writing, which is just superb in this book, and reminded me of a cross between Charlie Huston, Dean Koontz, Mike Carey, Chuck Palahniuk, and Duane Swierczynski. In other words, readers should expect a skillfully written novel brimming with sharp dialogue and humor, vivid prose, and convincing characterization, although I would love to learn more about Disciple's past (military, prison, suicide attempts) if Bakker ends up writing another Disciple Manning novel. True to form, the book also features some of R. Scott Bakker's trademark philosophical observations on everything from religion to society to life. Compared to Neuropath however, Disciple of the Dog is much more accessible to readers.
While Disciple Manning and the writing are excellent, the story leaves a little to be desired. Though skillfully handled, the plot twists and red herrings were underwhelming, while the major revelations at the end just felt anticlimactic. Plus, the novel seemed to drag when the book focused more on the story than on Disciple and his various insights, "postconversation reveries", and "cynical wisdom". Also, Disciple of the Dog is not what I would call a 'page-turner', full of heart-pumping action and thrilling cliffhangers, even though the book is one that readers can breeze through quickly.
Aside from these minor shortcomings, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Disciple of the Dog. R. Scott Bakker's writing was riveting, Disciple Manning was fascinating, and the book left me wanting more. So hopefully this isn't the end of Disciple Manning, because the unique private investigator deserves to have his own series...
"Hatter M: The Nature of Wonder" by Frank Beddor, Liz Cavalier & Sami Makkonen (Reviewed by Robert Thompson)
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"Hatter M: The Nature of Wonder" written by Frank Beddor and Liz Cavalier. Illustrated by Sami Makkonen. Cover art provided by Vance Kovacs. Release Date: October 15, 2010. Published by Automatic Pictures.
The Looking Glass Wars trilogy may have concluded with last year's novel, ArchEnemy, but Frank Beddor's extraordinary reimagining of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass live on through a series of graphic novels chronicling Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan and his thirteen-year search for Wonderland's Princess Alyss who became lost on Earth after escaping through the Pool of Tears during Aunt Redd's coup d'état. . . events that transpired in the first volume of The Looking Glass Wars trilogy.
In The Nature of Wonder—the third Hatter M geo-graphic novel after the Eisner Award-nominated and 2009 Silver IPPY Award-winning Far From Wonder, and the 2010 Gold IPPY Award-winning Mad With Wonder—Hatter Madigan travels to Washington D.C. in search of answers and ends up crossing paths with agents Horatio Alabaster and Philomena Ark of the Bureau of the Illuminated Forces, the evil Colonel Obsidian Stoker, and Abraham Lincoln on the day of his assassination. From here, the graphic novel follows Hatter as he and Agents Alabaster & Ark go on a quest in search of the White Flower Tribe, which leads to a lengthy flashback involving Hatter as a Millinery cadet, his older brother Dalton, and the sisters, Princess Rose and Princess Genevieve. Concluding the graphic novel is a classic western tale of a small town terrorized by outlaws and the one person who makes a stand against them...
Like the other Hatter M graphic novels, The Nature of Wonder offers an entertaining mix of story and art, highlighted by Sami Makkonen's psychedelic visuals and writing imbued with Frank Beddor's trademark humor and wild imagination. Admittedly, the third Hatter M graphic novel feels a bit on the short side—probably because of a prologue and epilogue that fails to add anything significant to the story apart from referencing Mad With Wonder—but The Nature of Wonder features a colorful supporting cast led by Horatio Alabaster and Philomena Ark, and it's once again fun to see how Hatter Madigan's adventures on Earth intersect with actual history. Plus, I liked how the flashback sheds some light on Hatter as a person, and it was rewarding to finally see Madigan enter a hat shop that sold more than just hats.
Of course, what I love most about the Hatter M geo-graphic novels is the packaging—specifically the beautiful wraparound covers—and the awesome bonus content. In this case, the extra goodies include a 5-page preview from the upcoming fourth Hatter M geo-graphic novel, The Zen of Wonder; investigative reports on the Bureau of the Illuminated Forces and the White Flower Tribe; a gallery of paintings inspired by Hatter Madigan's cards; journals and artwork composed by Alyss during her stay in England; and an excerpt from ArchEnemy, the concluding volume in The Looking Glass Wars trilogy.
As a whole, The Nature of Wonder is another lovingly crafted Hatter M geo-graphic novel that is a must-have for any true fan of The Looking Glass Wars...
NOTE: On November 10, 2010, Automatic Pictures will publish a brand new Hardcover edition (See Above) of the first Hatter M geo-graphic novel, which has been out-of-print for a while now. Besides sporting a striking new wraparound cover and the new subtitle, 'Far From Wonder', the graphic novel also features, among other new bonus content, two extra chapters illustrated by Sami Makkonen. The first, titled "Dublin", finds Hatter Madigan squaring off against the creature, Spring Heeled Jack, with the aid of a thirteen-year-old Bram Stoker. The second chapter meanwhile, called "Siberia", finds Hatter confined in a Siberian prison camp, questioning his duty to the royal family of Wonderland, with reporter Madga Pushkin making a brief appearance. Personally, I enjoyed "Dublin" more than "Siberia", but both chapters shine in their own special way, while strengthening what is already an outstanding graphic novel. In short, even though Far From Wonder is a reprint, the graphic novel is a reissue that LGW fans will definitely want in their collection...
"Literary Fiction" for SFF Lovers (by Liviu Suciu)
Once in a while disputes appear online about genre vs literary, the Man Booker prize and genre and similar topics. These days and for almost 20 years now, I have been reading mostly sff , but I like quite a few "literary novels" where I use the quotes since I strongly believe that "literary fiction" is a genre with its subgenres and conventions (suburbia, boarding school, academia, family drama, social drama…) and it intersects with other genres in many places .
I also think that the Booker prize is fine the way it is focusing on this genre as the AC Clarke prize is fine the way it is focusing on sf, however loosely defined. So outside of various current "literary" novels I've reviewed here, I would like to present some more I loved a lot and which I think can appeal to people who tend to read mostly sff.
As usual, I will limit myself to one book or series - yes, literary fiction has series too and even the 2009 Booker winner Wolf Hall is the first part of a planned duology - per author since nothing is more tedious than seeing a general list repeating ten times the same author, but I also strongly suggest checking out more works by the author in cause if the book presented here tempts you.
I will not include books reviewed on FBC so far since I will make a separate list for that though I will include different books by some authors (Hilary Mantel, Kazuo Ishiguro, Roberto Bolano, Margaret Atwood) I've already reviewed. I will include mostly links to Google Books previews or snippets since when available they are quite useful and will give you a direct taste of the book in cause. Wikipedia or Amazon otherwise.
The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy ( Spring Snow (1966), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970) and The Decay of the Angel (1971)) by Yukio Mishima
exotic, reincarnation, great characters, great worldbuilding and page turners to boot; three times Nobel prize nominated and whom is rumored to have lost by a whisker in 1968; a loose tetralogy following one character's interactions with four young people he believes are successive reincarnations of each other.
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
page turner that is both allegory and a gripping description of a marathon go match; another novel that was an important part of a Nobel prize winner's work.
The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
maybe not the best Nabokov, nor the most sf-nal (Ada is alt-history for example) but a big favorite of mine for its great tale of chess and madness; also one famous book for which the movie is pretty good since it respects its spirit whatever liberties it takes with the text.
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
family saga, mystery and pulp-sf; Booker prize winner and top five novel of the 00's of mine.
Seven Japanese Tales by Junichiro Tanizaki
the one collection on the list since each story here is superb; a mixture of themes and settings from contemporary to the writing (mostly 1910-30's though one as late as 1959) to historical fiction showcasing Junichiro Tanizaki's "typical" mixture of eroticism, strange and exotic
another Nobel prize nominated author who almost won
2666 by Roberto Bolano
sprawling, subtle, funny and then ultra-dark; one of the few "must" novels of the 00's imho; I hope to review it here by early 2011.
The Forbidden Forest by Mircea Eliade (aka St John Nativity Night or even Faerie Night in the original Romanian language title)
one of the few novels I read in three languages several times each; sadly the English language edition is rare and expensive but good college libraries have it - I read it that way first and kept it borrowed on and off for almost all my time in graduate school here since it was banned by the communist regime I grew up under; later I bought the French edition and then even later, a Romanian language edition and I wish someone would reprint it in English too since I would buy it on the spot at a decent price...
epic, (slight) paranormal, romance, world building, great characters and a powerful sense of history; the last 100 pages and the ending are still among the most emotional ones I've ever read even today after many readings of the book; the one "marooned on an island novel" for me
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
another Booker shortlisted novel and while maybe not the author's best, a favorite of mine despite being loosely classified as "detective/crime" fiction; exotic world building at the boundary with the imaginary and a great denouement
The Magus by John Fowles
the one pure mainstream novel that reproduces the sf-nal sense of wonder; it just blew me away many years ago when I read it first in Romanian and then I read it in English several times too; one of those famous novels I think any sff fan should at least look at
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
epic tale of glitter, misery and Revolution; world building, great characters, page turner in this Nobel prize winner novel; the author paid dearly for the Nobel though, suffering humiliation in the supposedly "thawed" Kruschev' Soviet Union; the first book I bought and read here in the USA, days within my arriving in 1990. A bunch of movies too with the most recent Russian miniseries the best rendering of the novel I've watched, though of course Omar Sharif and Julie Christie still have their timeless charm...
A Time to Love and a Time to Die by Erich Maria Remarque
nobody does better exile and alienation in a foreign country than EM Remarque and his tales of people blown by the winds of war in the maelstrom of Europe 1930-1940's when a passport stamp made all the difference between life and death still resonate with me very strongly today; this one though is a bit more straightforward; Germany 1943 among bombings, rubble and the specter of the Eastern Front and the title says it all; while Arch of Triumph - another personal favorite that takes place in 1939 Paris - may be more accomplished, this one is just a big, big personal favorite.
The Stranger by Albert Camus
too well known to say more in a paragraph and a landmark of the literary world of the 20th century; also a crucial part of a Nobel prize winner work; try it since you will be surprised how gripping it is
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
another well known novel about the Devil in Stalin's Moscow; the posthumous publication was a landmark event; the 10 episode Russian miniseries is the best adaptation of several I watched; and Behemoth the black cat on the cover above is still awesome :)
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
the "most difficult" novel on the list but another landmark of 20th century literature which shows that an author can write great stuff decades after receiving the Nobel; the descent into madness both personal and societal and with sff-nal elements too.
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
way before Wolf Hall, there was this one which I read on US publication some 15-16 years ago and reread a bunch of times since; while less accomplished technically it is still a big time favorite; same great world building and characters but in the French Revolution. And of course a superbly ironical title.
"Wintertide" by Michael Sullivan (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu and Cindy Hannikman)
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INTRODUCTION:In the space of two years, Michael Sullivan has moved from a small press debut author that was featured in one of my first "Indie Spotlight Reviews" to a "name" in the fantasy field who sold-out his first novel and is getting both critical acclaim and fan appreciation. In my 2009 end-of-the-year rankings, Avempartha went head to head against the "big names" and made both my Top 2009 Books list and Cindy's Top 2009 Book list, while The Crown Conspiracy made Mihir's Top 2009 Reads too.
"Nyphron Rising" started the epic part of the series which had a lot of ground prepared in The Crown Conspiracy and Avempartha two mostly standalone adventures, while in "The Emerald Storm" the series ramped up considerably and the world expanded; the twist ending made "Wintertide" one of my top titles of the second part of the year. So very high expectations, but even so I was not prepared for the punches that Wintertide pulls which left me in need of complete reread of all five books to get an inkling where the series might be going in its finale...
FORMAT/CLASSIFICATION:"Wintertide" stands at about 330 pages divided into 21 named chapters that follow several main POV's: Hadrian, Royce, Arista and Amilia, the lady in waiting and "mouthpiece" of Empress Modina as well as a young street kid Mince who is a new character. All the colorful characters from previous novels like Regent Saldur, Sentinel Guy, Archie, Marius reappear and there are several other characters that grow in importance here. The novel starts with two detailed maps of the world and ends with the most emotional and twisty chapter of the series so far.
While "Nyphron Rising" started getting into the heart of the main story of the series and The Emerald Sea thickened the plot and expanded the world, Wintertide returns to the heart of the action in the Imperial capital of Aquesta, where the two regents are preparing to celebrate the marriage of an Empress and the rebirth of an Empire with the burning of a witch as closing entertainment.
As its two predecessors from the heart of the series, "Wintertide" is adventure fantasy in an epic context.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: Liviu:"'Black queen takes king. White rooks retreat. Black queen captures bishop. White rook to bishop's four, threatening. Check. White's pawn takes queen and bishop. Jade's tomb, full face."
While a bit spoilerish at least if you know what the above means, the paragraph quoted is something that makes a book worth reading by itself; of course getting there and understanding it takes a while and Wintertide has much more, from action, to intrigue, to heart-breaking drama and a lot of subplots closure. The big picture becomes even more intriguing since quite a lot of assumptions are challenged by the end of the novel. And there is only one more installment to go...
Since it is book 5 and I strongly recommend reading at least the previous two installments to fully appreciate this one, the only thing I will mention about the story is that as opposed to the world expanding The Emerald Storm, Wintertide returns to a more compact geographic location and urban/castle action including a knight tourney that offers quite a lot of comic relief to the tension buildup as Wintertide (the event) gets closer and closer.
The dramatic ending of the novel made me go back and reread books 1-4 for clues about where the author may take the series in Percepliquis, and I made a big list of "things to watch for/possibilities" but the one thing I am sure of is that the series ending will be one of those "put down everything and read immediately" novels.
Wintertide (A++) is the second top-rated combo (with The Emerald Storm) of 2010 for me and establish the series as one of the best traditional epic fantasies currently being published and a top 10 novel of mine.
Cindy: After completing Emerald Storm I wanted the next book right away. After a few months of waiting the wait is finally over. One thing about authors is that they make you wait and wait for books and then you get the book and there's a feeling of let down. Let me assure you if you've been following this series at all you won't be let down.
At this point in the series we're so far into it that it's hard to do an analysis of the plot and characters because part of the appeal for the series is the growth of the characters and plots as you read.
Wintertide is everything that I've come to love and expect about anything written by Sullivan. It has all the characters that I'm familiar with. After having them fleshed out a bit in the previous book everything just seemed to flow and come together.
There is a sense of more to come, yet Wintertide has a feeling of the end is almost near. While reading I was impressed with everything but at the same time I couldn't shake the feeling that this series that I have come to love is starting to wind down.
Without being all dramatic the ending will keep you hanging and waiting for the next book.
Like Liviu I really feel that this is one of those series that has a place in the fantasy world. I know it's a series that I will gladly be returning to time and time again. Sullivan has earned my respect and admiration with all the work that he's achieved and I can't wait to see what he pulls out of his hat for the final book. If these past few books are any indication I'm sure it'll be a memorable ending. Well worth the read and time to look into the series and the next book is a must read for myself!


I started off with setting a trap for the new chipmunk or chipmunk family for all I know and I hope to have one by tomorrow. Next, I took a large cutting from my fig tree and planted it after checking on my one surviving cutting that will hopefully grow much larger over the next few years.
Then, it was off to the compost piles where I was delighted to find that the pine shavings and chicken poop I have finally decomposed after a year of waiting. It was earthy, crumbly, and felt great in my hands which is everything you hope for in a compost. My chickens have learned at least one thing about their owner. If I am holding a shovel, they eat like queens. If queens ate grubs that is. Not just a few grubs, but close to 100 of these little morsels of protein. The grubs that I run into are root grubs and of course feed on "roots" which aren't great candidates for the garden, so I take every hand full of dirt and check it for these free protein gummies for the girls. The first compost pile must of had roughly 60 of these bad boys and my chickens were eternally grateful. You have to take a moment and appreciate that I can throw 15 grubs in the chicken run and they are devoured in less than 5 seconds with nothing to spare. Pretty impressive! I almost feel bad for the grubs...not really.
So, a little backstory. Roughly a year ago, I happened upon some worms in the ground when digging up some plants and decided to put them in my compost pile that was relatively new at the time. I thought...well maybe they will like it there and make some babies, and with any luck I'll have top notch worm castings. Well these little worms get an A for hard work! With every shovel of dirt, worms would fall out and be squirming wildly on the ground below. So I threw some of the worms back in the dirt, fed them some mulched leaves, and merrily took my beautiful worm castings and priceless compost to the garden. One worm was longer than my hand from fingertip to wrist, which is amazing!
It is important to feed your garden routinely as plants take so many nutrients from the ground. Of course, use whatever resources are convenient to you given what is available. I layered both of my main garden beds with an inch or so of compost and made 2 inch deep rows for planting seeds. I chose to plant two different varieties of rutabagas and some smooth German kale. The smooth German kale seeds were from seeds I harvested which I highly recommend if you looking to be self sufficient and practice seed saving.
The gourds have grown rapidly and I'm thinking there are a total of 6 to 7 of these beauties. Can't wait for them to dry out so I can get their seeds and the natural sponges inside.
Here is a photo tour of other things going on in the garden. Check it out! Good luck out there with your garden and happy growing!
and my plants did really well. I recommend them!
I'm ready for winter!! Romantic fires are my favorite!
Yall, I don't know what to say, the garden is so beautiful and ripe. Mother nature has been watering like a rock star and the garden gives me eye-gasms. The garden is overdue for weeding, but the weeds don't grow as well when the plants create a canopy shading the ground below. I have installed two rain barrels and am pleasantly surprised as one of the 60 gallon barrels filled up after just two days of rain! I use the rain water to feed my potted plants and I have yet to run out of water. If you have ever thought about using rain barrels, just do it because you won't regret it. I made mine for roughly 35 dollars a piece including the spicket, fitting, and rain barrel from craigslist. Pests are at a minimum outside of a few slugs and I'm harvesting zucchini, squash, ground cherries, beets, Swiss chard, Kale, bell peppers, lettuce, and herbs every few days. Hope you enjoy the photos!
Almost ready to be eaten!
and appreciate the gift of nature.
Rain Barrel - Cost $35 - free water!
Squash Blossom which the honeybees love every year.
Sadly, I often want to leave them as they are and not eat them.
Look at how many of them there are! Yum!
I love how they track the sun. Simply stunning and amazing.


NEW YORK, June 20, 2016 – DFG Investment Advisers, Inc. ("DFG"), an alternative credit asset management firm based in New York, announced the successful closing of its fourth CLO transaction, Vibrant CLO IV, Ltd. The $406 million CLO, arranged by Goldman Sachs, was closed on June 10, 2016. Concurrently, DFG completed a $100 million first closing for a fund that will enable the firm to pursue strategic initiatives.
As of June 2016, DFG's assets under management exceed $2.5 billion. In January, Alberta Investment Management Corporation ("AIMCo"), one of Canada's largest and most diversified institutional investment managers, announced it had acquired a minority stake in the firm, on behalf of certain of its clients.
DFG is a New York-based asset management firm focused on alternative credit strategies. As of May 31, 2016, the firm managed approximately $2.5 billion in corporate and structured credit assets via commingled funds, separate accounts and collateralized loan obligations (CLO) vehicles.


He loves to be the first to open a new bag of chips. He can't resist buying the latest cereal. He likes to do things his own way. He's phenomenal when it comes to flowers: arranging or growing. He's an artist. He always encouraged us to follow our passions and let us be our own person. He treats his wife like a queen. Love you, dad. Happy Father's day.
He was made to have lots of daughters. He is a thorough thinker. He remembers names and conversations. He does laundry and dishes. He grooms a mighty fine yard. He's smart. He's funny. He is helpful (thrifty, and usually brave). He's my best friend. I asked him what he wanted for his Father's Day dinner. He said he didn't care, except that he wanted a chocolate-y dessert.
He's also easy to please. Love you, RD. Happy Poppy's Day.
You will never go back to baking a brownie from a box after having these. Recipe from Brownies to Die For, very apropos, even if you're a grammar stickler.
You can make them all in one pot. And if you have a Clover, there's hardly any clean up, either.
350° oven. Lightly grease and flour (I made this again and used cocoa powder instead of flour) a 9" springform pan. Melt chocolate on VERY low heat until smooth, add butter, stir until melted. Whisk in sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Whisk in flour until incorporated. Pour mixture into prepared pan. Gently press 1 1/4 cups of raspberries in batter. Bake 35-40 minutes until the edges crack and feel firm to the touch. Cool completely and remove sides of springform pan. Serve in wedges with a dollop of whipped cream and raspberries on top.
Thank you dear Katy. Thank you for being a wonderful daughter and amazing person, period. Wish I could die eating one of those brownies!
your dad also looks a little bit like Picasso!
Beautiful sentiments to two lucky men and a tasty dessert to bolster the occasion, yum!
Man, you know how to do chocolate! David, of course, wanted something fruity. Happy Father's Day to them!
Mr Rae likes salty snacks, NOT sweet (that would be moi).
I will have to try that recipe! LOVE the bright picture of Clover. Happy Father's Day!
Oh yum! I'm always looking for a better brownie recipe. Haven't found the perfect one yet. I'll have to test this one out.
that's 3 in a row i didn't miss!
but i have to say, your paragraph on kurt is so on the mark. and i ryan has such admirable qualities! but it makes me miss you guys more and want to visit!


Eating mooncakes while watching the full moon is an important part of the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, and is more like a symbol of family unity. At the very beginning, moon cakes were served as a sacrifice to the Moon. The word "moon cake" first appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). Nowadays, moon cakes are given as presents to loved ones and it represents people's wishes to be together during the mid-autumn festival.
Apart from the above, there are a variety of celebrations around China.