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pinebreaks.bsky.social
pine breaks (uncapitalized)
@pinebreaks.bsky.social
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Book, Film, and TV Reviewer, essayist, writer of social-class-based fiction, and sometime cultural academic
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@waltermarsh.bsky.social true crime caper 'The Butterfly Thief' pieces together several mid-century museum thefts that shook Australia’s leading natural history institutions... My review is available at Foreword Reviews: shorturl.at/SHhnh.
November 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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My interview with @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social about his excellent new book, “Black History Is for Everyone,” is available at Foreword Reviews shorturl.at/Fj15E.
#BlackHistoy #BlackHistoryMonth
September 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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My new interview with Arie Kaplan, @ariekaplan.bsky.social, about his book, Encyclopedia of Curious Rituals and Superstitions, is available at Foreword Reviews: shorturl.at/IORaG.
#BookRecommendation #indieauthor #booksky
July 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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"Citizen One, Douglas Stuart McDaniel’s (@urbannext_net) ambitious memoir–cum–social science survey, reckons with power, planning, and the precarity of future cities." My new review is available at Foreword Reviews shorturl.at/QVPEb. #books #bookreview #booksky
July 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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My new review of Bob Joseph's '21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government', available at Foreword Reviews, shorturl.at/8uroU, "...addresses the affairs of Indigenous Canadians with clarity and a quiet sense of injustice." #BookRecommendation #indieauthor #books #bookreview #booksky
July 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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It was a real pleasure to interview Be Steadwell for Foreword Reviews recently. Check out what she has to say about her recent novel and its themes of sexuality, queerness, and Black sisterhood: shorturl.at/rVazD. #LGBTIQ #BookSky #LGBTQBookSky #SapphicBookSky
June 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The Encyclopedia of Curious Rituals and Superstitions by @ariekaplan.bsky.social reviewed at Foreword Reviews, a "jargon-free volume of global folklore [that] blends anthropology, pop culture, and a pinch of irreverence." shorturl.at/QfDpo #BookRecommendation #indieauthor #books #bookreview #booksky
June 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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The Saundra Gray Affair by Daniel Yager reviewed at Foreword Reviews, "...is a political thriller about the personal costs of leading a public life..." shorturl.at/jFj1y.
#BookRecommendation #thrillerbooks #bookrelease #indieauthor #books #BooksWorthReading #bookreview #authorsky #booksky
June 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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I'm super pleased to announce the inclusion of my [in-progress] novel's opening pages in Black Spring Press Group's @EyewearBooks 'CrimeBits 2: 100 Opening Gambits for Great Thrillers & Linked Mystery Puzzles', Selected and Introduced by Val McDermid.

#writer #author #CrimeBits
June 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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"Informative and uplifting, the self-help guidebook Taking the Stairs & Liking It models empathetic, values-based self-improvement..." -
Review of Lauren Speeth's 'Taking the Stairs & Liking It' available at Foreword Reviews. forewordreviews.com/reviews/taki...
#books
May 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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"@besteadwell.bsky.social's novel Chocolate Chip City is... a hymn to Black love, Black queerness, and Black spirit that pulses with the joy of existence..." My new review, available at Foreword Reviews: shorturl.at/ssOpd
#LGBTIQ #booksky
May 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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"American investor Michael Calvey's revelatory memoir, 'Odyssey Moscow,' transforms a harrowing personal ordeal into a story about injustice, resilience, and contested power in modern Russia..." - My new review available at Foreword Reviews: shorturl.at/iZYwt #books
May 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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My new review of #Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell, published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social, is available at @goodriverreview.bsky.social: shorturl.at/XcpVW.
"...an unflinching, deeply visceral exploration of coercion..."
#BookReview #NetGalley #IrishFiction #RoisinODonnel
Roisín O’Donnell’s NESTING: The Slow Strangulation of Control
Roisín O’DonnellNestingAlgonquin Books / February 2025 / 400 pp / $29.00 HardcoverReviewed by pine breaks / April 2025Nesting is Roisín O’Donnell’s first full-length work of fiction, following her acc...
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April 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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My new review of Gail Straub's 'Home Inside the Globe' available at Foreword Reviews (rb.gy/lrsbhd): "...a thoughtful and inviting travel memoir about moving across the world with curiosity and humility in search of self-understanding."
#booksky #books #bookreview #Reviews
March 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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New review available at Foreword Reviews
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Review of Into the Light
Into the Light: "Into the Light" is an impactful social science text that challenges entrenched colonial narratives. W. R. Bailey’s brief but ambitious social science text "Into the Light" dismantles ...
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February 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Where crime fiction meets colonial legacy in Fiji's diabetes crisis. I review 'Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel,' by Edward Narain & Tarryn Phillips, available at Aniko Press, tinyurl.com/mry7vhkw.
#diabetes
Review: Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel by Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips — Aniko Press
Where crime fiction meets colonial legacy in Fiji's diabetes crisis.
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November 25, 2024 at 4:31 AM
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Billy Bob Thornton is a scene-stealer in Landman. My new review is available @slantmagazine.com. Available to read at shorturl.at/xI73E
‘Landman’ Review: Teetering Between Gritty Realism and Excess
The series offers an unvarnished look at a contentious industry and the lives tethered to it.
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November 16, 2024 at 12:54 AM