#BookReview: At Least I’m Trying by Tara Hodgson “Hodgson’s capable rendering of the teenage end-of-the-world mentality culminates in an end-of-the-world scenario in a Vancouver sex den” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/06/2...

#BookReview: Reconciling History: A Story of Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould and Roshan Danesh “Jody Wilson-Raybould’s most recent book, co-authored with Roshan Danesh, will doubtless receive any number of favourable reviews” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/05/2... mcclellandbooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: Broadway Corridor: The Great Social Divide by John D’Eathe “this is a futuristic look at life in the upcoming mid-century where the medical system is broken, zones are used freely to attack people, individuals mistrust one another” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/05/2...

#BookReview: The Antifa Comic Book by Gord Hill “With an accessible artistic style, Hill effortlessly conveys the importance of Antifa history and its place of relevance in today’s society” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/03/2... arsenalpulp.bsky.social

#BookReview: Wildcraft Medicine by Sheila Anne Wray “a beginner’s guide to natural Earth-based remedies, with biographies, memoir, and personal wildcrafting stories for those who want to use what’s bountiful in the forest that surrounds them” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/02/2... friesenpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Reflecting on connecting, with camera by Trevor Marc Hughes “It has been a privilege for me to shake the hands of all of the interviewees of 2025, sometimes in their own homes and workspaces, and ask them about their creative process” thebcreview.ca/2026/01/01/2...

#BookReview: Runs in the Blood by Matthew J. Trafford “The narrators are articulate and reflective as well as capable of explaining their circumstances in careful detail, even as those explanations reveal limits in ethical clarity” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/30/2... arsenalpulp.bsky.social

#BookReview: The Trophy Hunter by David Giblin “In any event, the guides all vie to help clients catch the big one, win fishing competitions, and they hope, receive equally big tips” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/29/2... heritagehouse.bsky.social

#BookReview Best Canadian Poetry 2026 Selected by Mary Dalton “It’s hardly surprising then that in all the poems of Best Canadian Poetry2026, rejection and isolation are consistent themes. The poems present a toolbox of approaches to overcome it” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/29/2... biblioasis.bsky.social

#BookReview Calm Harbour, Turbulent Seas: A History of Ucluelet by Shirley Martin “As a fourth-generation west coaster who has lived most of her life in Ucluelet, Martin is well-positioned to record its stories with authority and insight” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/28/2... harbourpublishing.bsky.social

#BookReview: Horsefly by Mirielle Gagńe (translated by Pablo Strauss) “binds together environmental cause and effect, body and ecological remembrance with incessant time, and unrelenting seasons” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/28/2... coachhousebooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: Say It by Jan Zwicky “This 19-page chapbook poem confronts us—it weighs and stuns with blunt data, poetically rendered” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/23/2...

#BookReview: My New Indian Kitchen by Vikram Vij with Jennifer Muttoo “To cook with your heart reflects Vij’s ideal of experimentation in the kitchen, changing or adding ingredients to make something truly his own” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/22/2... Figure1publishing.bsky.social

#BookReview: Elk Valley Alphabet Adventures by Charné Baird “thoughtfully-composed, useful, and appealing book contains photographic images and letters and rhymes, which are great for kids” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/22/2...

#BookReview: Complete Beading for Beginners by Karen Rempel “It’s an excellent and easy-to-follow guide with clear instructions and illustrations. First published in 1996, its importance is ongoing” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/21/2... harbourpublishing.bsky.social

#BookReview: Eyeless in Gaza Again by Gary Geddes “Geddes might have an eye on that cold hard ground, but, lucky us, he’s not ready yet to return to it. The sign that he is holding up? This publication. Social life is not sight. It is each other” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/2127... wbwcanada.bsky.social

#BookReview: Unorganized Territory: A Boy’s Own Memoir by David Gurr “The wry humour and the cheerful self-deprecation that frame the self-inflicted misadventure are absolutely fundamental to the DNA of this entire, wickedly unconventional memoir” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/20/2...

#BookReview: Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience by Megan A. Smetzer “Smetzer explores a singular, wearable item through which cultural expression looks to the past and to the future at once” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/19/2... uwapress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Future Boy by Michael J. Fox and Nelle Fortenberry “[T]here is plenty in this heartfelt and revealing memoir… to tempt them to read it” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/18/2... flatironbooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: The Italian Secret by Tara Moss “The Italian Secret is a lighthearted, rollicking novel set in three time periods–1907, 1943, 1948–and travels from the Indian Ocean to Italy and Australia” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/18/2... harpercollinsca.bsky.social

#BookReview: Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All At Once by Tristin Hopper “This book will prove a useful read as a sardonic and provocative examination into how Canada stopped being boring to the world” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/16/2...

#BookReview: Best Canadian Stories 2026 Selected by Zsuzsi Gartner “Me, I was happy to read the stories, enjoyed their authors’ multifarious understanding of the malleable genre, and intrigued by what stories they chose to tell and how” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/16/2... biblioasis.bsky.social

#BookReview: Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood “And yes, even if you had never heard of its author this book would be worth reading simply as a wide ranging, interesting collection of personal stories and firsthand accounts of public events” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/15/2...

#BookReview: Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese “As dark as a tale like this can get, this is not a story that wallows in misery” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/15/2...

#BookReview: “Once again, we asked and our contributors answered. And, for the second year running, eclectic was the commonality. The titles range from prize-winners to, well, books you’re likely to be seeing for the first time as you scroll through the picks below.” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/11/2...

#BookReview: “Once again, we asked and our contributors answered. And, for the second year running, eclectic was the commonality. The titles range from prize-winners to, well, books you’re likely to be seeing for the first time as you scroll through the picks below.” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/10/2...

#BookReview: Better Next Year by JJ Lee (ed.) “Christmas here, instead of being a redemptive climax, is often a recipe for disaster: a time when the emotional seams of ordinary life become increasingly visible and frayed” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/09/2... tidewaterpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: All of Us Hidden by Joanna Streetly “Her tales are personal, observant, moving, and expansive—made potent through a distinctive working of language and image” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/09/2... caitlinpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: A Promise to Protect by Nikki Bergstresser “The story is one of healing and wholeness, with room for a bully or two and some heart-opening” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/27/2...

#BookReview Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq’ey’s-kucw “It is welcome because it encourages a neutral, grounded shift in focus onto everything the Secwépemc (and other Nations)have lost through the process of colonialization” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/08/2... mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

#BookReview: Women Who Woke Up the Law by Karin Wells “One of the book’s most important implications is that women’s rights are hard won, by women themselves, rather than awarded by a benevolent government or other entity” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/06/2... secondstory.bsky.social

#BookReview: Thyme for Dessert by DL Acken, with Aurelia Louvet “However, on second reading, this book is actually quite user-friendly, with most recipes requiring reasonably common ingredients” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/05/2... touchwooded.bsky.social

#BookReview: Beautiful Brutal Bodies by Linda Cheng “It’s an A+ for bringing the gore and the yuck” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/0527...

#BookReview: Hidden Flowers by Keiko Honda “Upheavals like these can presage a time of loss and emptiness, but they can also be seen as an opportunity for growth into a new way of existing in the world” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/04/2... heritagehouse.bsky.social

#BookReview: This Skirt Won’t Work by Jennifer Cooper (illustrated by Eva Byrne) “[Cooper] showcases social change as not only possible but something that can be initiated by pretty much anyone” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/04/2... sourcebooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: Canada Is Not the 51st F**king State! Canadians Face Off Against Donald Trump’s Worst Idea Ever by John Hughes (ed.) “Hughes has assembled a collection that is unapologetically Canadian, but also fiercely human” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/03/2...

#BookReview: Engine 374 and Me: True (and Partly True) Stories of a Celebrated CPR Locomotive by Lisa Anne Smith “Many of the stories will be more appealing to young adult readers. They are fun and involve the kind of exploits that captivate that age group” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/03/2...

#BookReview: Wake by Jae Waller “Not only does Waller succeed, but she does so with two branching timelines that have a massive crossover of characters, cities, histories, and wars” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/02/2... ecwpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: One Arrow Left by Cecilia Dick DeRose with Sage Birchwater “Cariboo-Chilcotin is about stories as much as anything. By the end of the book, it seemed that I did know them. I think this means the book is a success” thebcreview.ca/2025/12/01/2... caitlinpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Recarving the Chrysoprase Bowl by Tom McGauley “They are dense meditative scripts to nail to a wall and to contemplate for a week, or a month, until each is both a landscape and a body” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/29/2... galleon-books.bsky.social

#BookReview: A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests by Caroline Adderson (illustrated by Lauren Tamaki) “a marvel in miniature, with an educative intent that’s stimulating and funny while also thoughtful and illustrative” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/28/2... groundwoodbooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: I Won’t Feel This Way Forever by Kim Spencer “Instead the structure of Spencer’s work is more like that of a quilt, a collection of stories of moments, with memories and mulling-overs that are as important as any immediate piece” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/27/2... Orcabook.bsky.social

#BookReview: Ours to Tell: Reclaiming Indigenous Stories by Eldon Yellowhorn & Kathy Lowinger “Set up as a series of profiles of Indigenous storytellers, its format makes it accessible to all audiences and knowledge bases, from young audiences to academics” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/26/2...

#BookReview: A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa “Kwa blends sci-fi with Chinese myth, and creates a unique and captivating story that captures the essence of relationships and belonging” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/26/2... wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

#BookReview: An Accidental Advocate by Lembi Buchanan “Even when she is describing situations that would cause the strong to buckle at the knees, she writes with quiet dignity and persuasive authority about the intimate facts of her personal life” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/25/2...

#BookReview: We’ve Come for Your Eggs (And Other Reasons to Annex the North) by Septimus Brown “Ah, political satire and fantasy, but mostly—in the hands of Septimus Brown, the pen name of a Victoria author—a coming of age story about the miniature dragon, Glimm” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/25/2...

#BookReview: Chapter Two: Schools. Hardly the happiest years by Christopher Levenson “I was not destined to stay at my first primary school for very long. The war saw to that” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/24/2...

#BookReview: Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin by Sunny Dhillon “All the while, he ponders cultural evolution and wonders, with understandable concern, what kind of world his child will inhabit and necessarily navigate” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/21/2... wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

#BookReview: Expedition to Mystery Mountain: Adventures of a Bushwhacking Knickerbocker-Wearing Woman by Susanna Oreskovic “But the book is more than just a description of an epic bushwhack: it is also the story of the author’s inner journey” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/20/2...

#BookReview: The Final Spire: ‘Mystery Mountain’ Mania in the 1930s by Trevor Marc Hughes “[Hughes] describes the decade-long history of attempts to climb the highest mountain entirely within British Columbia, Mount Waddington” thebcreview.ca/2025/11/20/2...