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#BookReview: Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections by Monique Gray Smith “Emotionally intimate and enduringly hopeful, Sharing The Light reads like a Swiss army knife of spiritually healing, vibrationally nourishing teachings, tools, and practices”
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#BookReview: Going back 14,000 years by Katy Dycus “William Housty, Director of the Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department, says that archaeological investigations on Triquet Island opened up a whole new chapter for him to understand his own ancestors”
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#BookReview: Letter from Puerto Vallarta by Trevor Carolan “…We remain holed up as the insurrection that rocked town here continues, though in low-key mode now”
thebcreview.ca/2026/03/03/2...

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#BookReview: The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu “Fu offers myriad reflections on what it means to experience grief in every sense of the word, and how by getting swallowed by this powerful emotion someone could end up drowning.”
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#BookReview: In Trees: An Exploration by Robert Moor “I settled in, and kept turning pages while Robert Moor shared with me the many different ways we can be In Trees”
thebcreview.ca/2026/03/02/2...
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#BookReview: Wild People Quiet by Tara Gereaux “Wild People Quiet takes readers quietly in hand and shows them—not ‘tells them’—what it was like to face bias, and what it might be like if biases can be overcome. It’s an absorbing book”
thebcreview.ca/2026/03/02/2...
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#BookReview: Staying Power by Zena Sharman “In the wake of broken familial bonds and chosen single mothering, how can Sharman ever become someone’s parent herself? The answer comes in fits and starts throughout this memoir-in-essays”
thebcreview.ca/2026/03/01/2...
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#BookReview: Troubling Criminology by Michael C. K. Ma and Mike Larsen“As the discussion heats up,one begins to feel like a dinner party guest privileged to listen in on a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation between two expert criminologists”
thebcreview.ca/2026/02/28/2...
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#BookReview: Liberation and Libido by Nicholas A. Hrynyk “Hrynyk has created a valuable resource on the evolution of masculinity and libido in queer sexuality”
thebcreview.ca/2026/02/28/2...
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#BookReview: Something Has Changed by The Pen Pals Writers’ Collective “It is impossible to select just one story or poem written by these women…because each one is rich in meaning and each one celebrates women as they tackle life”
thebcreview.ca/2026/02/27/2...

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#BookReview: Sightings by Patrick Friesen“Friesen’s focus is both personal and transformative, with poems touching on nothing less than birth, death, and the clear-seeing moments between”
thebcreview.ca/2026/02/27/4...
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#BookReview: How to Retire: Retire Knowing You Can Enjoy Every Day by Steven Scanlan “he takes it into a deeper zone, exploring not only those basics but also encouraging readers to look at new options as we adjust to “this massive life transition”.”
thebcreview.ca/2026/02/26/2...

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#BookReview: Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist by Sarah Boon “Meltdown is a perceptive memoir of her journey through “the university system” that failed her, as a student, a postdoc, and a young professor”
thebcreview.ca/2026/02/25/2...
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#BookReview: Laurence Hutchman: in conversation with Tim Lilburn “Find your eros, the elemental thing that must be said in you, and then do what you want. And find good and honest editors. Have a good time. -TL”
thebcreview.ca/2026/02/25/2...

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#BookReview: I Love You: Recipes from the Heart by Pamela Anderson “I Love You is sunlight in the form of a gloriously vegan cookbook, perfect for lonely hearts with big appetites”
thebcreview.ca/2026/02/24/2...
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#BookReview: Your Lover Stabbed in the Streets by David Romanda “He presents a suite of surrealistic mini-narratives that reveal unexpected twists, surprises, and, sometimes, whimsy”
thebcreview.ca/2026/02/24/2...

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#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...

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#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”
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#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”
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#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...
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#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”
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#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"
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#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...

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#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...
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#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...
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#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...

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#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...

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#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...

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#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”
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#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”
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