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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: White Space, Gray Areas & Black Swans: Stories of Getting Along (or Not) by Donna M. Henningson “Ultimately, it aims to create empathetic humans who will treat each conflict as an opportunity to grow and mature”
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January 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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#BookReview: Humans: The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality by Alvin Finkel “Alvin Finkel wants us to remember the past, think more positively about our current predicament and be more optimistic about the future”
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January 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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#BookReview: A Season for Spies–Lane Winslow Prequel by Iona Whishaw “Out in the street, with bombs likely on the way and her new assignment flipping about in her translator brain, her first thought: buy Christmas gifts for her grandparents”
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January 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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#BookReview: Reflections on Eating Bitterness exhibition by Christine Cheung “the metaphor of “Eating Bitterness” which is derived from a Chinese proverb about resilience: ‘eating’ bitterness – as in experiencing adversity – often results in strength”
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January 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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#BookReview: Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir by Michael V. Smith “In Soundtrack, there’s music, music everywhere at the point where these two unequal forces interact”
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January 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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#BookReview: Long Exposure by Stephanie Bolster “In both series, the link between photographic exposure and lengths of exposure to water (New Orleans) and radiation (Chernobyl) is deliberate”
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January 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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#BookReview: Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo “this book contracts to the dimensions of 1960s Trinidad, tracing the education of a girl named Anjula as she learns to decode the performances that constitute family life”
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January 11, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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#BookReview: On Permanent Loan Essay by Christopher Levenson “No living language is self-sufficient. We all need to borrow words from other languages occasionally”
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January 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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#BookReview: Give Us This Day by Terence Young “I was utterly captivated by these stories that gently probe ordinary life with grace and insight”
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January 10, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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#BookReview: Compulsory Figures by John Barton “a collection that is not only evocative and visceral but masterfully precise, honouring its namesake”
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January 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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#BookReview: Once upon This Land “There is evidence of people living in BC going back fifteen thousand years. Today more than two hundred distinct First Nations call BC home and twenty different languages are spoken”
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January 10, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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#BookReview: “The Famous Cowboy Artist”: A. D. Kean in Vancouver, 1913–1916 Essay by Dennis J. Duffy “On opening day, August 23, one of the stars was a rider from BC’s Boundary Country, 31-year-old A. D. “Cowboy” Kean”
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January 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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#BookReview: The Other Shore by Rebecca Campbell “Diverse in subject, time, and character, the stories feature places of the Pacific Northwest”
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January 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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#BookReview: Ladder to Heaven by Katie Welch “Welch has given us a story worthy of our attention—one that’s well-told, and in an unconventional manner as it whips us from one timeframe to another without ever leaving us behind”
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January 9, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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#BookReview: Songs from This and That Country by Gail Sidone Šobat “The troubled characters in this troubled novel, no doubt like many Canadians, may not always find such “songs” to be melodious”
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January 9, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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#BookReview: A Snake and a Feathered Bird by Angie Ellis “Cowichan Valley writer Ellis moves the reader from one decade to another and back again as Ben grows up, confused and uncertain of his family loyalties”
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January 8, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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#BookReview: A Drop in the Ocean by Léa Taranto “It’s a sensitive portrait of a girl gradually learning there is much more to her than mental illness and who, through immense challenges, comes to terms that she does, in fact, deserve love”
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January 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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#BookReview: Gino: The Fighting Spirit of Gino Odjick by Patrick Johnston and Peter Leech “Odjick comes off as a complex individual, a cultural bridge builder whose positive influence was far reaching despite his many challenges”
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January 8, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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#BookReview: Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table by Carol Anne Hilton “a visionary and pragmatic approach to reshaping Canada’s economic landscape by placing Indigenous economies at its centre”
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January 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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#BookReview: Surviving Vancouver by Michael Klucker “The images are powerful and speak for themselves, but the words add many historical details about bygone characters, how they lived and what they built”
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January 7, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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#BookReview: The Rebel’s Wife by Gerald Richardson Brown “Based on a true story, Gerald Richardson Brown’s book The Rebel’s Wife is set in the young colony of Upper Canada during the Rebellions of 1837-38. This was a turbulent period in Canadian history”
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January 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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#BookReview: In This Faulty Machine: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation by Kathy Page “is at once intimate, wryly humorous, and informative as it takes the reader from that tumble on the mountain trail to the present”
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January 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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#BookReview: A poet’s life – Tom McGauley by Ron Verzuh “Tom McGauley quietly passed away on his 77th birthday this past summer, leaving the West Coast with another gap in its once-vibrant poetry community”
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January 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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#BookReview: Hunger: The Poetry of Susan Musgrave “Musgrave’s life circumstances are deeply intertwined with her poetry—a life of notoriety, well reported on, its biographical details drawing, perhaps, more fascination than her poems have”
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January 2, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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#BookReview: Jim Wickwire: Mountaineering Icon by Ron Dart “Jim Wickwire was the first American to summit K2 (elevation 28,251 ft.) in September 1978”
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January 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM