Thank you, Mothership, for all your great work with this story!!!❤️

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

Reviewing Apple TV+ 'Widow's Bay': 'The Fog Rolls In, and It’s Wonderful' @ shorturl.at/UtGMJ

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

"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

"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.

"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

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...

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

Billy Bob Thornton is a scene-stealer in Landman. My new review is available @slantmagazine.com. Available to read at shorturl.at/xI73E