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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#BookReview: The Double Life of Eve Sinclair by C.C. Humphreys “this story features well-drawn characters, interesting history, and plot twists that kept me turning the pages” www.thebcreview.ca/2026/06/02/a... doubledaybooks.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#BookReview: Dad Era by Jordan Abel “it is a nuanced collection examining fathers, lineage, place, and the complexities of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada” www.thebcreview.ca/2026/06/01/d...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#BookReview: Bramah’s Discovery by Renée Sarojini Saklikar “a self-proclaimed hybrid of poetry, fantasy fiction, and epic that tells of an underground battle against social and climactic change...” buff.ly/focar1I buff.ly/gPklyz5

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#BookReview: I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley by Thom Vernon “Told over a twenty-four-hour period, I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley, tells the story of several interconnected characters navigating a large storm...in the heart of Toronto” buff.ly/6ON4dUA buff.ly/pFAX5Ps

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#BookReview: Pipa:m̓: The Touch of the Frog by Joseph Dandurand, illustrated by Elinor Atkins “Dandurand’s book celebrates an ordinary-seeming girl who stumbles upon a fortune and willingly—and widely—shares the life-preserving 'wealth' it provides” buff.ly/F0ripXx

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#BookReview: The Future of Work Is Grey by Dan Pontefract “If you’re past 50 and worried that all your accumulated workplace wisdom will get shuffled out the door when you are let go, author Dan Pontefract agrees with you” www.thebcreview.ca/2026/05/26/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#BookReview: Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope: Academic Action on Truth and Reconciliation “This is just the beginning of this one-of-a-kind book, where academics became entangled with Indigenous thought” www.thebcreview.ca/2026/09/29/3... uottawapress.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#BookReview: Marbles and the Art of War: An essay by Marcella Kyrein “Marble and mud season is upon us, reminding me of a time in grade five when my teacher, Mr. Norman, used to confiscate marbles from unruly students and keep them in a gallon jar on his desk” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/26/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#BookReview: The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power by Carol Anne Hilton “this book serves as a call to action to encourage greater participation in advancing the Indigenous economy” buff.ly/rvz7XW9 new-society-pub.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#BookReview: The Angels’ Share by Jane Bow “This part of the story is very well done. The heist is tense with many twists, turns, ups and downs, and holds the reader’s attention until the final scene” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/25/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#BookReview: Oscar Wilde’s Paris by Collette Colligan and Gregory Mackie (eds) “the connection between the redoubtable Wilde and the storied city is reciprocally charged” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/24/2... uoftpress.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#BookReview: 30 Climate COPs Later by various editors “30 Climate COPs Later is the best book on this subject. If follows the international meetings over the last 30 years which aim to change climate for the better” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/22/2... uottawapress.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#BookReview: Library of Brothel by Anakana Schofield “To test this theory, Anakana Schofield presents her fourth novel: an intricate story about neither a library nor a brothel, which includes at least one giraffe” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/22/2... aaknopf.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#BookReview: Not All Dragons by David Ly “Despite this familiar structure, Rhys’s journey is unique and unpredictable, with twists and revelations I didn’t anticipate. This mysterious through line was fun to follow” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/21/2... wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#BookReview: Seven Heavens Aways by Ashraf Zaghal “Growing to adulthood can be challenging for youth in the best of circumstances, let alone under military occupation” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/20/2... houseofanansi.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#BookReview: Resisting Ordersby various “[A] carefully constructed analysis of feminine resistance, in which identities are hidden and cases are made cautiously, without the thrilling rhetoric of passion, the underlying mystery of a church made by and for patriarchal power” buff.ly/Z4fVReb

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#BookReview: Feebee’s Magical Figure Skaters’ Tea by Cathalynn Cindy Labonté-Smith “Labonté-Smith has no time for intense rivalries, unhinged momagers, or underhanded schemes for getting ahead. Gold isn’t the goal, enjoyment is” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/19/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#Essay: The rise & fall of an old musical aristocracy: an essay by Grahame Ware “I’m not sure exactly when it happened. I do know that I was listening to Michael Bublé on CBC FM radio and I thought, “Oooh…that note didn’t sound too good.”” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/18/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#BookReview: The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street by Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho “Wiley was one of many waifs left behind by well-intentioned parents in the care of nannies, older siblings, homestay parents, or relatives, either temporarily, or sometimes, permanently” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/14/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#BookReview: All Rise for Murder by Roz Nay “Nay’s Kirby Crime Crackers are a promising addition to the roster of comedic detective female gumshoes” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/14/2... vikingbooks.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#Interview: The Teachings of Mutton with Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa “Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa is a co-author, along with many Coast Salish people who added illustrations, writing, and oral history to do with the Coast Salish woolly dog Mutton” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/15/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#BookReview: Barefoot Gringo by George Bowering “It tracks George Bowering’s education in Mexico, from famous poet itching in the constraints of academic life to an old guy in a wheelchair in a Mexico in which everyone knows his name” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/13/2... ubcpress.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#BookReview: The Alchemy of Paradise by Susannah M. Smith “When The Alchemy of Paradise grabbed me by the heart and mind, it was when the narrator turned personal and ‘real’ about her struggles with family and a stable selfhood” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/13/2... invisibooks.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#BookReview: The Coffin of Honey by Geoffrey D. Morrison “Glitteringly fractal, the narrative plays like a rigorous study on its own narrative, imperial history and artistic praxis...” buff.ly/GTtFmsH coachhousebooks.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#BookReview: The False Creek Murder by Roy Innes “There is a murderer on the run and it’s not clear that the forces of law and order are on the right trail. Vancouver’s homicide squad and the RCMP’s narcotics division team up..but they face formidable killers” buff.ly/ldYH8Ej newestpress.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#BookReview: Homebound by Portia Elan “Homebound by Portia Elan manages to be many things: nostalgic, futuristic, tragic, tender, and above all, a startlingly moving debut” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/08/2... scribnerbooks.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#BookReview: Lament for a Literature by Richard Stursberg “Richard Stursberg’s Lament for a Literature suggests there is a causal link between the parlous financial state of Canadian publishing, a less robust Canadian literature, and a consequent decline in Canadian national culture” buff.ly/U0CSlPi

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#BookReview: Welcome to Sunny Town by Théodora Armstrong “Maggie is something of a mess, but one who can turn a phrase and puncture everything from her city’s cosmopolitan aspirations to her prof’s staggering ick-factor” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/07/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

#BookReview: Monarch by S.E. Hume “The stunning geography and capricious weather are a lovely backdrop for the inspiring story of the plucky butterfly’s migration from California” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/05/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

#BookReview: Gander by Nikki Bergstresser “The text proper emphasizes the widespread generosity of the residents—down to the bus drivers who interrupted their strike to provide transportation—and the cultural activities...” buff.ly/aOUL1br

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

#BookReview: Just A Minute: Why Humans Tell Time by Kirstie Hudson and Monique Polak “Victoria-based Kirstie Hudson and Monique Polak examine these and many other questions in their far-reaching examination of time” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/05/2... orcabook.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

#BookReview: John Robson: British Columbian by Ivan E. Antak “Indeed, as a social and political reformer, Robson played a driving role in the establishment of a distinctly Canadian brand of liberalism on the Pacific coast” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/04/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

#BookReview: Riverwork by Lisa Robertson “This river flowed alongside the Seine when laundresses worked to clean garments in it until its disappearance after centuries of industrial pollution” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/04/2... coachhousebooks.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

#BookReview: Small Latin and Less Greek: Essay by Christopher Levenson “Those words were used by Ben Jonson of Shakespeare, but if that was true of Shakespeare, how much more so of most of us today!” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/03/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#BookReview: Nature-First Cities by Cam Brewer, Herb Hammond, and Sean Markey “Nature-First Cities offers a reconsideration of the relationship between our communities, cities, and neighborhoods, co-existing with our natural environment” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/01/2... ubcpress.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#Book Review: “With a new book scheduled to be released in the fall, author and curator emeritus at the Royal British Columbia Museum Robert D. Turner is continuing his chronicling of British Columbia’s history of rail and steam” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/01/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#Book Review: Exploring Montréal:151 Best Buildings by Robin Ward “The photography is excellent and selection of buildings and civic statuary or artwork both astute and appropriate to exploring the built environment of Canada’s one-time leading metropolis” buff.ly/MNbHXKG douglasmcintyre.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#Book Review: Reconciling by Larry Grant, in conversation with Scott Steedman “Reconciling is the story of Larry Grant, of Musqueam and Chinese parentage, who takes us on a very personal excursion around Vancouver and the Fraser Valley and beyond with Steedman” buff.ly/R7JMXUA ecwpress.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

#Book Review: Spruce to Cedar by Lasänmą “Spruce to Cedar is a debut collection of poems that anchors readers in the poet’s childhood home of Dakwakada, or Haines Junction, Yukon” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/29/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

#Book Review: Coming Home from the Candy Factory by Jane Byers “The book is a collection of vignettes, essays, and poetry…These are stories of inspection, vigilance, witnessing, and recording” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/28/2... caitlinpress.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

#Book Review: Staff Picks for Invertebrates by Zoe Dickinson "...is a bookseller’s musings on life laced with nature imagery. With her debut full-length collection, Zoe Dickinson paints an impressionistic day-in-the-life with her poems” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/28/2... guernicaeditions.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

#Book Review: From Ragged Ass Road to Rideau Hall by Whit Fraser “As he recounts in this memoir, he travelled with Justice Thomas Berger as he visited many remote communities to try to understand what concerned them about the massive pipeline project” buff.ly/pdS27Xi douglasmcintyre.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#Book Review: Gold Star by Emma McKenna “There’s just not enough sex in Canadian poetry. Never fear, though. Emma McKenna is here to fill the breach with her newest book, Gold Star” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/27/2... bookhugpress.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#Book Review: Boom Times in Chilliwack by Merlin Bunt “As a chronicler of that hometown, Chilliwack could not ask for a more devoted one...The book is the result of Mr. Bunt’s years of compiling stories about his home town” buff.ly/Zm0tYNu harbourpublishing.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#Book Review: A False and Fatal Claim by Iona Whishaw “Given Winslow’s inquisitive nature, what starts as a mere inquiry about the whereabouts of the hat owner turns into a thrilling adventure that spans years and generations” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/25/2... touchwooded.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#Essay: A ‘Lover of Beauty’ on his way to Yale: Revisiting the 1868 Yale Convention by Sam Kiiskila “This paper will examine the culmination of the League’s efforts: the 1868 Yale Convention” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/24/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

#BookReview: The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer “When I finished the last page and closed the book, I came away satisfied. And the ending? That, I really liked” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/24/2... simonschusterca.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

#BookReview: Like a River Divides the Earth: Five Stories by Dora Dueck “The five stories in this collection span both time and space, with settings that range from twentieth-century Toronto to the Russian steppes” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/01/2...

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

#BookReview: When the World Was Twice as Big by Aaron Cully Drake “This sequel takes readers from a point of relative peace to a crisis. Freddy flees his hometown for a rural existence and gradually decides where be truly belongs” thebcreview.ca/2026/03/26/t... nightwoodeditions.bsky.social

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#BookReview: The Call of the Rift: Fuse by Jae Waller “[T]he epic conclusion to an action-packed, magic-filled saga of love, loss, and becoming who you were meant to be” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/23/2... ecwpress.bsky.social

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