#BookReview: Interposition by Kaie Kellough “[H]e shapes with a variety of forms—spaciousness and density, prose poetry, margin shifts, structural repetitions, and more. In his use of space, he’s both a minimalist and maximalist” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/24/2...

#BookReview: Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides by Natalie Porter “Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides is history told by those who lived it…[this book] has the potential to inspire, comfort, and validate so many people across the world of skateboarding” buff.ly/ct5M4L3 ecwpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Bloom by Claire Sicherman and Nicole Breit “Two women. Two voices. One conversation conducted across more than two years of correspondence, about what it meant (and what it cost) to grow up female in the suburbs of late 1980s Vancouver” buff.ly/pV3ynuc caitlinpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: W. B. MacDonald with Stuart Nelson: “Split Nets” and “Stormy Seas” “Through the 1940s, Nelson Brothers Fisheries took its place among the leading companies in BC’s fishing industry” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/19/2... caitlinpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: The People of the Harrison by Daphne Sleigh “Often you come across a history, written by a devoted local historian, for sale in the gift shop, and this time I’d decided to buy a copy, and read about how this place, Harrison Mills...came to be” buff.ly/8iFsZ6Q

#BookReview: Cheapskate in Lotusland by Steve Burgess “This book is his ode to the tips and tricks he’s found to aid his frugal quest; a look at some wider-ranging topics around the cost of living" buff.ly/FUJtU1S douglasmcintyre.bsky.social

#BookReview: Pressed Plants: Making a Herbarium by Linda P. J. Lipsen “Although the book is written through a western botanist’s lens, the practice is gently suffused with tips drawing on the guidance of Indigenous knowledge keepers like Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/17/2...

#BookReview: Why Are You So – by Cathy Burrell “In this memoir, we see how the narrator overcame her many survival challenges” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/15/2... friesenpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: We, the Kindling by Otoniya Okot Bitek “We, the Kindling is paradoxical: skillfully-wrought, exquisite, poignant, tender, and affecting art about awful, ugly, senseless, incessant, and shockingly common brutality” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/15/2... aaknopf.bsky.social

#BookReview: Gary Allan Mitchell: June 27, 1954 – February 9, 2026 “Gary was born in Murrayville, Township of Langley, to Allan Ardiel Mitchell and Mary Teresa (née Kochmarski). He was raised on the family strawberry farm in Sperling District, Langley” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/14/2...

#BookReview: Tara Gereaux: “Spring 1911 Regina, Saskatchewan” ““He hid his Métis identity and never talked about it.” Tara Gereaux spoke about her grandfather in a recent interview. “I was always interested in why he made those decisions.”” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/12/2...

#BookReview: Mountain Footsteps by Janice Strong “Janice Strong is more than just a writer—she is a guide, a storyteller, and a fierce advocate for the land” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/12/2...

#BookReview: Western Voices in Canadian Art by Patricia Bovey “Readers coming fresh to the topic can’t help but be struck by the sheer number of Western Canadian artists in the book and the formidable array of illustrations” buff.ly/FlvEmrc umanitobapress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Do Not Go Out At Night by François Gravel and Martine Latulippe “the young characters who allow curiosity and compassion—and yes, fear—to guide their actions, will appeal to readers” buff.ly/p1wTAXE orcabook.bsky.social

#BookReview: The Bottle Witch of Brimley by Linda DeMeulemeester (illustrated by Meaghan Carter) “This book is well-plotted, and readers will appreciate the foreshadowing, the surprises, and the delicious clues that come together in the end” buff.ly/p1wTAXE orcabook.bsky.social

#BookReview: Is This an Illness or an Accident? By Daniela Elza “Elza’s essay collection, Is This an Illness or an Accident? is a wide-ranging, introspective essay collection that punctures holes in capitalism, small talk, and social norms” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/10/2... caitlinpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Reflection: The Salmon Celebration by Richard Butler “My friend Craig Jones is writing a book about Chief N’Kwala, leader of what Craig asserts was one of the First Nations among the late pre-contact Okanagan peoples” buff.ly/SqTjCZY

#BookReview: Playlist: A Profligacy of Your Least-Expected Poems by Michael Turner “Playlist is a two-form lyric memoir meant to resemble old songbooks—like the cloth-bound A Treasury of Our Best-Loved Songs Turner remembers from his childhood” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/07/2... anvilpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Partisans by Raymond Tyler & Paul Buhle (eds.) “Paul has the uncanny skill of connecting people and projects, witnessed by the extraordinary volume of graphic histories he has edited or written. There is no one quite like him” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/06/2... btlbooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: The Teachings of Mutton by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa et al “Mutton, authenticated, is the only known example of the Coast Salish woolly dogs whose hair was woven into traditional blankets” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/05/2... harbourpublishing.bsky.social

#BookReview: Hawking the Surf by Diana Hayes “The effect is as brooding as the orchids of the fog forests of the Carmanah Wilderness. You can visit them today or fifty years ago. Your memories might have changed, but the forest is the same” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/04/2...

#BookReview: A Perfect Day for a Walk by the Water by Bill Arnott “With an observant eye he sees his environment…Bill absorbs all that envelops him: trees, paths, birds, plants, a passerby, a building, a person to commune with” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/03/2... arsenalpulp.bsky.social

#BookReview: Portraits by Lacey Jones “With assured voice, far-reaching cultural references, and a connection to the universal via the deeply individual, Portraits has something new to say while bowing its head to predecessors and contemporaries alike” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/03/2...

#BookReview: Histories, Territories and Laws of the Kitwancool by Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs “If the first version of this book represented reconciliation before its time, the second reminds us that we still have a way to go” thebcreview.ca/2026/02/02/2...

#BookReview: Variations on a Dream by Angélique Lalonde “an extraordinary work—inventive, eclectic, heartfelt, playful, angry, often brilliantly written, mingling myth and actuality, with characters waking from various ‘dreams’ into various realities” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/31/2...

#BookReview: Any book is a miracle by Cathalynn Labonté-Smith “Any book that gets written is a miracle. Any great book that gets written and published is cause for an award” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/30/2...

#BookReview: War Resisters by Joline Martin “In this intimate account, Comox Valley writer Joline Martin uniquely focuses on the draft resisters who came to Vancouver Island and became Canadians” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/29/2... caitlinpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: [book excerpt: eco-poetics] Kim Trainor: “Grandmother Tree, Grandfather Tree” “When it comes to poetry, my poetry documents my life and it is inevitable then to include everything this encompasses” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/29/2...

#BookReview Curve! Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast by Dana Claxton/Curtis Collins “The stunning book documents over 80 years of artistic production alongside full-colour images of work by female artists showcasing diverse art forms” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/28/2... figure1publishing.bsky.social

#BookReview: They Never Left Me by Evelyn Kahn with Hodie Kahn “It is also unlike other books about the Holocaust because it describes life before, during, and after the war for those survivors” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/27/2...

#BookReview: The Queens of Kaboom by Martin Butler “In spite of a Cold War playing field that’s distinctly post-Bay of Pigs, the novel’s tone isn’t remotely gritty or hopeless” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/27/w...

#BookReview: Coastal Connections by Derek Hayes “Coastal Connections isn’t the first book about BC Ferries or its predecessors but it has to be the most detailed and comprehensive” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/26/2... harbourpublishing.bsky.social

#BookReview: M.A.C. Farrant: “Little Brown Birds” and “Someone” “With intriguing titles (“Western Skunk Cabbage,” for instance, and “Return of the Giant House Spiders”), the book’s brief chapters—seventy-three of them—expound on the act of noticing” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/23/2...

#BookReview: Painting Victoria by Robert Amos “This realization that there were almost no paintings depicting Victoria inspired him to “paint Victoria.”” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/22/2... touchwooded.bsky.social

#BookReview: The world’s favourite second language by Christopher Levenson “Language surrounds us everywhere, most of it unselfconsciously, in the form, say, of public notices, instructions for use, or names on buildings” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/21/2...

#BookReview: Raincoast Chronicles 25 – m̓am̓aɫa Goes Fishing by Alan Haig-Brown “The title, m̓am̓aɫa goes fishing, features an Indigenous first word, that we find out along the way, means ‘white guy’ – as in Indigenous humour” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/20/2... harbourpublishing.bsky.social

#BookReview: Always Breathe by Victor Enns “It will surprise you with his subtle sense of humour, his wit, and his wisdom, all the while feeling and struggling with his pain” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/19/2...

#BookReview: Hello, Baby, It’s Me, Alfie by Maggie Hutchings (illustrated by Dawn Lo) “Hello, Baby emphasizes both biology (the development of a foetus within a mother’s body) and the consequences of Alfie’s mom’s pregnancy for Alfie” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/19/2...

#BookReview: Sometimes I Feel That Way Too by Hannah Beach (illustrated by Rebecca Bender) “Not to worry, Beach maps out a useful way for children to understand themselves” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/19/2...

#BookReview: John Hart: A Businessman in British Columbia Politics by Patricia E. Roy “He was a numbers man who shepherded BC’s finances through two world wars and the Depression, playing an outsized historic role in shaping our province’s future” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/15/2... ubcpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: “a confrontational exploration of both explicit and internalized racism, shame, and death, a scathing indictment of capitalism and certain traditions, and a middle finger to blandness” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/15/2... penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

#BookReview: Syncopation by Whitney French “Syncopation is written in blank verse that swings between paragraphs of near-prose and short stanzas dominated by blank space” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/14/2... wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

#BookReview: Hopes Dreams Lies by Edward H. K. Ho “That peace, in his case, is broken en route by robbery of innocence in his shipboard encounter with racial hatred” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/13/2...

#BookReview: Rise of the Jellies by Brian Wilford “In the sleepy Vancouver Island town of Qualicum Beach, not much concerns the townsfolk beyond the usual WASP-y retiree fixations…That is, until something comes bubbling from the ocean deep…” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/12/2... friesenpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: [novel] Lindsay Wong: Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies “For Lindsay Wong, funny, discomfiting, absurd, and grotesque aren’t strange bedfellows. They’re the lifeblood of her writing and a seemingly natural offshoot of her own personality” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/10/2...

#BookReview: Off the Map by Betsy Warland, Seema Shah, Kate Bird “We meet thirty or so inventive, witty, and smart people, writers from diverse cultures and gender choices, wearing labels or diagnoses like schizophrenia or bipolar or ADHD” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/09/2... bellpressbooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: [book excerpt: short stories] Philip Holden: “The Strange Machine of Dr Goh” “The authors’ discussion wound around a genre they favour—fictive alternative history—and probed the ethics of writing it” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/08/2...

#BookReview: Emily Carr Centenary by Daniel Francis “Founded one hundred years ago on the top floor of the Vancouver School Board headquarters in downtown Vancouver, ECU is now one of the foremost art schools in Canada” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/07/2...

#BookReview: What Boys Learn by Andromeda Romano-Lax “It is a propulsive, horrifying psychological thriller rife with ambivalence, suspense, and maternal guilt” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/07/2...

#BookReview: Alternative Schools in British Columbia 1960-1975 by Harley Rothstein “offers a novel perspective on educational reform, attitudes towards child development and the counterculture in British Columbia during the Age of Aquarius” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/06/2... friesenpress.bsky.social