#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
#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
