#BookReview: One Thousand and A Night as Told by Larissa, Construction Shock Worker by Marina Sonika “But the past never leaves us alone. Not in Russia or Ukraine, not in this book, and not anywhere else, either” @guernicaeditions.bsky.social thebcreview.ca/2025/09/25/2...

#BookReview: Two Pigs by David Bouchard, illu. By Christine Battuz “While both tales begin with “Once upon a time,” Two Pigs veers from the path of its famous ancestor. Let’s look at this another way, the book seems to propose” Midtown Press thebcreview.ca/2025/09/24/2...

#BookReview: Most Grievous Fault by Meg Todd “Crystal and Becky’s history is full of stops and starts. Todd does a good job of setting a scene and piecing together Crystal’s haphazard life story” @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social thebcreview.ca/2025/09/22/2...

#BookReview: Reach for the Sky by Evelyn Sue Wong, illu. Sarah Ang “There are so many opportunities for learners to enjoy and ponder their own passions, and what the world might both offer and ask of them” @PlumleafPress thebcreview.ca/2025/09/21/2...

#BookReview: “Catherine Little’s EndGame: The Secret Force 136 does what a good picture book should: it tells a story in layers, layers that work together to one end even as they keep the reader intrigued and growing with each read” @PlumleafPress thebcreview.ca/2025/09/21/2...

#BookReview: Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing “Susan Aglukark’s book, co-written with Andrea Warner, music journalist and author of several books, is a privileged window into the struggles of a modern Inuk” @harpercollins.bsky.social thebcreview.ca/2025/09/19/2...

#BookReview: “Diana Hayes has penned a captivating tale of one woman’s search for her Irish roots, offering a story that invites the reader to explore Irish history and experience a bit of magical connection to the past in the process” thebcreview.ca/2025/09/19/2...

#BookReview: “Trutch Street’s new legal name is šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm St. which translates as Musqueamview Street. It will appear in official city records, maps, and some government databases” @ubcpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Pools by Martin West “There’s no beginning like death. Set in Vancouver in the early 1980s, Martin West’s Pools opens with the death of a woman at a pool party” @anvilpress.bsky.social

#Essay: Haida Gwaii’s Karst Caves by Katy Dycus “Groundwater has eroded the limestone terrain of Haida Gwaii...into a network of dark, cool karst caves, thereby creating the perfect conditions for preserving animal remains and artifacts”

#BookReview: The Firmament by Adam Parker “As the strange and violent opening may suggest, the story and setting are bleak and off-putting” @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social thebcreview.ca/2025/09/17/2...

#BookReview: Night Moves: The Street Photography of Rodney DeCroo by Rodney DeCroo “Why are we so alone, DeCroo’s poems wonder, and in one of them he hopes he will find a face that will provide the answer” @anvilpress.bsky.social thebcreview.ca/2025/09/16/2...

#BookReview: The Bittersweet Year by Barry Potyondi “He has created enough story twists to keep readers interested in this study of home-front class differences” Holand Press thebcreview.ca/2025/09/15/2...

#BookReview: What is Broken Binds Us by Lorne Daniel “Lorne Daniel uses poetry to mend the emotional and physical breakage of contemporary human identity. These are blended performances, both textual and oral” @ucalgary.bsky.social thebcreview.ca/2025/09/14/2...

#BookReview: A Precarious Enterprise: Making a Life in Canadian Publishing by Scott McIntyre “outlining the tumultuous beginnings, storied ups and downs of growth, and eventually the ending of his own publishing house—Douglas & McIntyre” @ecwpress.bsky.social thebcreview.ca/2025/09/12/2...

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