pine breaks (uncapitalized)
@pinebreaks.bsky.social
Cultural commentator, essayist, writer of social-class-based fiction, and media studies academic.
Thank you, Mothership, for all your great work with this story!!!❤️
Mothership@mothership.blog · last mo.SpriteWrench is one of very few game studios based in Kingston, Jamaica. That scarcity only fuels Glen Henry's commitment to fostering community, sharing resources, and making great games. www.mothership.blog/glen-henry-i...
I review Lars Svendsen's 'Stupid Idiots' at Foreword Reviews, shorturl.at/fvvo6, "a wry philosophical text treating stupidity as a persistent human condition that’s shaped by knowledge, belief, and social context." #books #bookreview #blueskybooks
In Stephen J. Wallace’s hilarious satirical novel 'Average Civil Employee,' @GreenleafBookGr, a reluctant man navigates institutional absurdities. Read my new review at Foreword Reviews: shorturl.at/Q3fKl #books #bookreview #blueskybooks
My new review of #ChineseParentsDontSayILoveYou by Candice Chung, available at Anikopress: shorturl.at/oVejl. "... an appetising memoir... loaded with insights about romantic love, familial relationships and unhappiness...." #Netgalley #memoir #love #family #foodie #LoveStory
Review: Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You by Candice Chung — Aniko Press
A memoir that delivers a feast of memory, longing and the meals that hold us together.
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"Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons’s intricate, illuminating history text 'The Sons of Gunshooter' is about Diné life, family lineages, and legal history..." Read my review at Foreword Reviews: tinyurl.com/jzu8bvww. #books #bookreview #blueskybooks
Review of The Sons of Gunshooter
The Sons of Gunshooter: Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons’s intricate, illuminating history text "The Sons of Gunshooter" is about Diné life, family lineages, and legal history. Drawing on…
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"Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel 'Kill Dick' parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms..." Read my review at Foreword Reviews: tinyurl.com/2aru257s. #Books #bookreview #booksky Published @redhenpress.bsky.social.
Review of Kill Dick
Kill Dick: Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel "Kill Dick" parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms. Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and…
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"Lori A. Ringhand’s illuminating civic history text 'We the Voters' combines constitutional analyses with accessible examinations of American democracy..." Read my review of this assured account of how to reform US democratic systems @ Foreword Reviews: shorturl.at/A9JAg . #bookreview #books
@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.
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
"@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
"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
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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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
New review available at Foreword Reviews www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/into...
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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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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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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