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The British Columbia Review (formerly Ormsby Review) is BC's online book review journal, the go-to place for BC writers, readers, reviewers, and publishers.

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#BookReview: Welcome to the Neighbourhood by Clea Young“Young writes with wit and great insight about characters who feel overlooked and out of sorts” House of Anansi Press thebcreview.ca/2025/05/16/254…

#BookReview: Welcome to the Neighbourhood by Clea Young“Young writes with wit and great insight about characters who feel overlooked and out of sorts” <a href="/HouseofAnansi/">House of Anansi Press</a>
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#BookReview: Back to the New Adventure by Trevor Atkins “Nothing if not a level-headed and resilient young teen Emma speaks to herself (to determine the clarity of her thought) and begins to hatch a plan. Fear and apathy play no part in her outlook” Silverpath Publishing

#BookReview: Back to the New Adventure by Trevor Atkins “Nothing if not a level-headed and resilient young teen Emma speaks to herself (to determine the clarity of her thought) and begins to hatch a plan. Fear and apathy play no part in her outlook” Silverpath Publishing
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#BookReview: The Cariboo Trek of Callum McBay by Colin Campbell “Robert Louis Stevenson provided me with plenty of young adult fiction back in my youth, so it was with some anticipation that I began reading Scottish lad Callum McBay’s story of adventure on the high seas and the

#BookReview: The Cariboo Trek of Callum McBay by Colin Campbell “Robert Louis Stevenson provided me with plenty of young adult fiction back in my youth, so it was with some anticipation that I began reading Scottish lad Callum McBay’s story of adventure on the high seas and the
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#BookReview: Iron Mike: My Life Behind the Bench by Mike Keenan with Scott Morrison “Iron Mike provides an insider’s view of the coaching life aimed at vindicating its author’s brutal winning philosophy and intimidating style” Random House Canada thebcreview.ca/2025/05/20/255…

#BookReview: Iron Mike: My Life Behind the Bench by Mike Keenan with Scott Morrison “Iron Mike provides an insider’s view of the coaching life aimed at vindicating its author’s brutal winning philosophy and intimidating style” <a href="/randomhouseca/">Random House Canada</a>
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#BookReview: Speech Dries Here on the Tongue by eds. Hollay Ghadery, Rasiqra Revulva, and Amanda Shankland “Poetry can serve as a space to envision alternative futures,” they write, “creating room for collective dreaming and transformation” The Porcupine’s Quill

#BookReview: Speech Dries Here on the Tongue by eds. Hollay Ghadery, Rasiqra Revulva, and Amanda Shankland “Poetry can serve as a space to envision alternative futures,” they write, “creating room for collective dreaming and transformation” The Porcupine’s Quill
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#BookReview: Back Where I Came From by Taslim Jaffer and Omar Mouallem (eds.) “Each account describes a specific exploration of identity, but the physical distance traveled varies” Book*hug Press thebcreview.ca/2025/05/21/255…

#BookReview: Back Where I Came From by Taslim Jaffer and Omar Mouallem (eds.) “Each account describes a specific exploration of identity, but the physical distance traveled varies” <a href="/bookhugpress/">Book*hug Press</a>
thebcreview.ca/2025/05/21/255…
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#BookReview: Inside Outside by Faye Arcand “Women being most valued for their bodies—whether for sexual pleasure or procreation—is an underlying theme, one the author treats seriously” Blue Robin Bookkeeping, LLC. thebcreview.ca/2025/05/22/255…

#BookReview: Inside Outside by Faye Arcand “Women being most valued for their bodies—whether for sexual pleasure or procreation—is an underlying theme, one the author treats seriously” <a href="/BlueRobinBooks/">Blue Robin Bookkeeping, LLC.</a>
thebcreview.ca/2025/05/22/255…
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#BookReview: Milk Into Cheese: The Foundations of Natural Cheesemaking Using Traditional Concepts, Tools, and Techniques by David Asher “At its essence this is Asher’s love letter to cheesemaking in all its traditional forms, and arguably, his manifesto on natural cheesemaking

#BookReview: Milk Into Cheese: The Foundations of Natural Cheesemaking Using Traditional Concepts, Tools, and Techniques by David Asher “At its essence this is Asher’s love letter to cheesemaking in all its traditional forms, and arguably, his manifesto on natural cheesemaking
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#BookReview: Meeting the 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prize Finalists by Trevor Marc Hughes “As the shadows lengthened east on Broadway and Ash in Vancouver, it was time once again for a late spring soirée for the public to come in and meet the 2025 finalists of the BC and Yukon Book

#BookReview: Meeting the 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prize Finalists by Trevor Marc Hughes “As the shadows lengthened east on Broadway and Ash in Vancouver, it was time once again for a late spring soirée for the public to come in and meet the 2025 finalists of the BC and Yukon Book
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#BookReview: Becoming the Harvest by Pauline Le Bel “Dying is presented as a physical connecting back to earth, much like the Mountain Avens seeds gently leaving the plant, and floating down to the ground to germinate” Caitlin Press thebcreview.ca/2025/05/23/255…

#BookReview: Becoming the Harvest by Pauline Le Bel “Dying is presented as a physical connecting back to earth, much like the Mountain Avens seeds gently leaving the plant, and floating down to the ground to germinate” <a href="/caitlinpress/">Caitlin Press</a>
thebcreview.ca/2025/05/23/255…
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Catherine Clement – Curating Chinatown’s History youtube.com/watch?v=IXDcLQ… Find us on YouTube at The British Columbia Interview Series. #catherineclement #youtube #britishcolumbia #britishcolumbiainterviewseries #bcreview

Catherine Clement – Curating Chinatown’s History
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#BookReview: The Book of Records by Madeleine Thein “The very form of Thien’s novel, in its complex, shifting, mirroring interconnection with “reality,” plays off against many, many books themselves, both physical volumes and the words they contain” Knopf Canada

#BookReview: The Book of Records by Madeleine Thein “The very form of Thien’s novel, in its complex, shifting, mirroring interconnection with “reality,” plays off against many, many books themselves, both physical volumes and the words they contain” <a href="/KnopfCA/">Knopf Canada</a>
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#BookReview: Wôpanâak / Seasons by Carrie Anne Vanderhoop, illustrated by Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley “It’s not foreboding, or a dangerous wilderness, though. Majestic and vast, nature is part of everyday life” Knopf Canada thebcreview.ca/2025/05/25/256…

#BookReview: Wôpanâak / Seasons by Carrie Anne Vanderhoop, illustrated by Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley “It’s not foreboding, or a dangerous wilderness, though. Majestic and vast, nature is part of everyday life” <a href="/KnopfCA/">Knopf Canada</a>
thebcreview.ca/2025/05/25/256…
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#BookReview: Pacific Palate: Food Artisans of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands by Don Genova “It’s a foodie guidebook for one of the most beautiful places in Canada. It’s an invitation to slow down, sip, savour, appreciate, ask questions, and indulge your curiosity”

#BookReview: Pacific Palate: Food Artisans of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands by Don Genova “It’s a foodie guidebook for one of the most beautiful places in Canada. It’s an invitation to slow down, sip, savour, appreciate, ask questions, and indulge your curiosity”
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#BookReview: allostatic load by Juni Désil “The writer of these poems has done all the work, and done it well, with sharp perception, detailed re-telling, and “picture-making” in the familiar sense of skilled, actualized metaphor, image snapshots, and use of simile” Talonbooks

#BookReview: allostatic load by Juni Désil “The writer of these poems has done all the work, and done it well, with sharp perception, detailed re-telling, and “picture-making” in the familiar sense of skilled, actualized metaphor, image snapshots, and use of simile” <a href="/Talonbooks/">Talonbooks</a>
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#BookReview: Future Works by Jeff Derksen “It’s an interweaving. There are hydroelectric turbines, bauxite, Leonard Cohen, collected books and album jackets, aluminum, and Zooms. Even Derksen’s father cameos” Talonbooks thebcreview.ca/2025/05/27/256…

#BookReview: Future Works by Jeff Derksen “It’s an interweaving. There are hydroelectric turbines, bauxite, Leonard Cohen, collected books and album jackets, aluminum, and Zooms. Even Derksen’s father cameos” <a href="/Talonbooks/">Talonbooks</a>
thebcreview.ca/2025/05/27/256…
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#BookReview: Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation by Various “These two books focus variously on a combination of critical legal theory, social advocacy, and the law itself—Aboriginal law and Indigenous law” University of Toronto Press

#BookReview: Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation by Various “These two books focus variously on a combination of critical legal theory, social advocacy, and the law itself—Aboriginal law and Indigenous law” <a href="/utpress/">University of Toronto Press</a>
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#BookReview: Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights and Relationships by Various “These two books focus variously on a combination of critical legal theory, social advocacy, and the law itself—Aboriginal law and Indigenous law” University of Toronto Press thebcreview.ca/2025/05/29/256…

#BookReview: Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights and Relationships by Various “These two books focus variously on a combination of critical legal theory, social advocacy, and the law itself—Aboriginal law and Indigenous law” <a href="/utpress/">University of Toronto Press</a>
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#BookReview: Contemplation of a Crime by Susan Juby “In Contemplation of a Crime what begins as a healing retreat on a cozy West Coast island becomes a life-or-death struggle, and Helen is firmly in the middle of the action” HarperCollinsCa thebcreview.ca/2025/05/30/256…

#BookReview: Contemplation of a Crime by Susan Juby “In Contemplation of a Crime what begins as a healing retreat on a cozy West Coast island becomes a life-or-death struggle, and Helen is firmly in the middle of the action” <a href="/HarperCollinsCa/">HarperCollinsCa</a>
thebcreview.ca/2025/05/30/256…
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#BookReview: Endling by Maria Reva “Maria Reva’s debut novel Endling is about how we find one another, and how we lose another—her characters, yes, but also writers and readers” Knopf Canada thebcreview.ca/2025/06/01/256…

#BookReview: Endling by Maria Reva “Maria Reva’s debut novel Endling is about how we find one another, and how we lose another—her characters, yes, but also writers and readers” <a href="/KnopfCA/">Knopf Canada</a>
thebcreview.ca/2025/06/01/256…