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February 2024

Theresa Kishkan, Sisters of Grass
A gorgeous novel about memory and place, that for some reason wasn't to every reviewer's taste when it came out
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Richard
Amanda Lewis, Tracking Giants
You should absolutely read this book, about searching for and visiting big trees, and the potential joys in such a pursuit. But it's the most…
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Richard
Bruce Burrows, The River Killers
I picked up Bruce Burrows’ The River Killers several years ago, though I’m no longer sure where or when.
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Richard
Chip Zdarsky, Public Domain, vol. 1: Past Mistakes
A surprisingly low-key, intimate broadside against Big Comics, from someone who's been working inside the Leviathan for a long time, and who I think…
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Richard
Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob
"Late to the party" doesn't BEGIN to describe my first reading of Elmore Leonard, but it's not my party, even though it's very much a party
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Richard
S.L. Stoner, Timber Beasts
Historical fiction about the Pacific Northwest logging industry, unionization, trains, and Portland: either indie or self-published, and a fun read…
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Richard

January 2024

David Chariandy, Soucouyant
In which I get to the novel eventually, after a prelude about race, BC vs Canada, and growing up where racial difference meant white vs Indigenous (and…
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Richard
Aaron Shepard, When Is A Man
On impotence (both prostate and uselessness), damming rivers, damned communities, and fish
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Richard
Joe Garner, Never Chop Your Rope
In which I rant, rather than review, but that's the right approach to some books, isn't it?
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Richard
Joe Garner, Never Fly Over an Eagle's Nest
Bullshit as history; or, How much the BC logging industry owes to one man's flight from the Ku Klux Klan (maybe. Who even knows at this point)
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Richard
Roderick Haig-Brown, Starbuck Valley Winter
When you might be the only one among eight billion Earthlings who'll read a particular book in 2024, what should you say in a review?
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Richard
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