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Having authored seven previous novels for young readers, all of which have been nominated for, or won literary prizes, Rachelle Delaney’s latest title Alice Fleck's Recipes for Disaster (Puffin $21.99) is about a young girl who thinks she is entering a cooking competition with her father only to find out it's a reality TV show. Alice worries she will freeze, cry, or worse, throw up. MoreCHAPTER EIGHT
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Having authored seven previous novels for young readers, all of which have been nominated for, or won literary prizes, Rachelle Delaney’s latest title Alice Fleck's Recipes for Disaster (Puffin $21.99) is about a young girl who thinks she is entering a cooking competition with her father only to find out it's a reality TV show. Alice worries she will freeze, cry, or worse, throw up. MoreCHAPTER EIGHT
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BC BookLook is exclusively for and about the literary culture of British Columbia, the province of Canada with the highest per-capita book reading rate. This reference site and news service is provided and managed by Alan Twigg and BC BookWorld.BC BookLook is a project sponsored by Pacific BookWorld News Society. To advertise or donate, call 604-736-4011 or email bookworld@telus.net #123 ERNEST HEKKANEN LOCATION: New Orphic Gallery, 706 Mill Street, Nelson. Directions: Near the intersection of Mill and Hall, four blocks from Selkirk College. Ernest Hekkanen's intimidating versatility and productivity have increasingly defied easy categorization and marketing. Although Hekkanen is clearly one of British Columbia's most remarkable writers, his work is seldom recognized in mainstream NEW SOLUTIONS TO LAND CLAIMS Michael Asch, drug a professor of Anthropology and adjunct professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, has been awarded the Weaver-Tremblay award for distinguished service to Canadian applied anthropology, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He recently wrote On Being Here to Stay, Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada (UTP $24.95 2014) proposing a new ROSSLAND’S HISTORICAL SHENANIGANS Ron Shearer has published, Chicanery, Civility and Celebrations (Rossland Heritage Commission $24.95) about Rossland’s prominent historical figures as well as some of its under-appreciated denizens; and incidents and institutions in the city’s early years between 1896-1920. Shearer adds his personal anecdotes to stories such as Rossland’s evolution from mining camp to city, the city’s SELBY GETS U.S. RECOGNITION Cranbrook public librarian and BC BookWorld reviewer Mike Selby’s (right) book Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) has been chosen as the Outstanding Academic Title of the Year by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in the United States. The ACRL, a division of the American Library Association PUNJABI, HINDI & URDU LIT HAS A CHAMP Now South Asian literature is on the rise throughout Canada, particularly in British Columbia as evidenced by Rajwant Chilana’s 500-page directory. It took him five years to complete, but now Rajwant Chilana of Surrey has been able to self-publish South Asian Writers in Canada, a reference work that identifies more than 700 South Asian (Indo-Canadian) writers in Canada. South Asian Writers JASON PRIESTLEY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Having spent nine years playing teen heartthrob Brandon Walsh in the hit television series Beverly Hills 90210, story Vancouver-born actor Jason Priestley has opened up about his private life in Jason Priestley: a Memoir (Harperone $33.50). Some twenty years after 90210, the actor, director and former race car driver candidly writes about his life as a celebrity, his marriage and fatherhood BC BOOKLOOKSITE INDEXABOUTREVIEWSBI-WEEKLY DIGESTANNE CAMERONAUDIO BC BookLook is exclusively for and about the literary culture of British Columbia, the province of Canada with the highest per-capita book reading rate. This reference site and news service is provided and managed by Alan Twigg and BC BookWorld.BC BookLook is a project sponsored by Pacific BookWorld News Society. To advertise or donate, call 604-736-4011 or email bookworld@telus.net LATEST BC BOOKWORLD ISSUE BC BookLook is exclusively for and about the literary culture of British Columbia, the province of Canada with the highest per-capita book reading rate. This reference site and news service is provided and managed by Alan Twigg and BC BookWorld.BC BookLook is a project sponsored by Pacific BookWorld News Society. To advertise or donate, call 604-736-4011 or email bookworld@telus.netAUTHORS & BOOKS
BC BookLook is exclusively for and about the literary culture of British Columbia, the province of Canada with the highest per-capita book reading rate. This reference site and news service is provided and managed by Alan Twigg and BC BookWorld.BC BookLook is a project sponsored by Pacific BookWorld News Society. To advertise or donate, call 604-736-4011 or email bookworld@telus.netCHAPTER EIGHT
BC BookLook is exclusively for and about the literary culture of British Columbia, the province of Canada with the highest per-capita book reading rate. This reference site and news service is provided and managed by Alan Twigg and BC BookWorld.BC BookLook is a project sponsored by Pacific BookWorld News Society. To advertise or donate, call 604-736-4011 or email bookworld@telus.net #123 ERNEST HEKKANEN LOCATION: New Orphic Gallery, 706 Mill Street, Nelson. Directions: Near the intersection of Mill and Hall, four blocks from Selkirk College. Ernest Hekkanen's intimidating versatility and productivity have increasingly defied easy categorization and marketing. Although Hekkanen is clearly one of British Columbia's most remarkable writers, his work is seldom recognized in mainstream NEW SOLUTIONS TO LAND CLAIMS Michael Asch, drug a professor of Anthropology and adjunct professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, has been awarded the Weaver-Tremblay award for distinguished service to Canadian applied anthropology, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He recently wrote On Being Here to Stay, Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada (UTP $24.95 2014) proposing a new ROSSLAND’S HISTORICAL SHENANIGANS Ron Shearer has published, Chicanery, Civility and Celebrations (Rossland Heritage Commission $24.95) about Rossland’s prominent historical figures as well as some of its under-appreciated denizens; and incidents and institutions in the city’s early years between 1896-1920. Shearer adds his personal anecdotes to stories such as Rossland’s evolution from mining camp to city, the city’s SELBY GETS U.S. RECOGNITION Cranbrook public librarian and BC BookWorld reviewer Mike Selby’s (right) book Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) has been chosen as the Outstanding Academic Title of the Year by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in the United States. The ACRL, a division of the American Library Association PUNJABI, HINDI & URDU LIT HAS A CHAMP Now South Asian literature is on the rise throughout Canada, particularly in British Columbia as evidenced by Rajwant Chilana’s 500-page directory. It took him five years to complete, but now Rajwant Chilana of Surrey has been able to self-publish South Asian Writers in Canada, a reference work that identifies more than 700 South Asian (Indo-Canadian) writers in Canada. South Asian Writers JASON PRIESTLEY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Having spent nine years playing teen heartthrob Brandon Walsh in the hit television series Beverly Hills 90210, story Vancouver-born actor Jason Priestley has opened up about his private life in Jason Priestley: a Memoir (Harperone $33.50). Some twenty years after 90210, the actor, director and former race car driver candidly writes about his life as a celebrity, his marriage and fatherhoodABOUT | BC BOOKLOOK
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One of B.C.'s most successful historical novelists, Jack Whyte has died. At the age of 52, Whyte burst onto the writing stage with the Penguin Canada release of The Skystone in 1992, the first of his quartet of Arthurian novels called A Dream of Eagles. His work was subsequently published in more than a dozen countries with far-flung commercial success. Entering the fictional field of Thomas #587 YOU ROW IT TO YOURSELF Complicated Simplicity: Island Life in the Pacific Northwest by Joy Davis Victoria: Heritage House, 2019 $22.95 / 9781772032703 Reviewed by Howard Stewart * Joy Davis’s book, she writes, “focuses on the perspectives and experiences of people who live on Pacific Northwest islands, particularly those not served by ferries” Life on these islands, she tells us by way of introduction PUNJABI, HINDI & URDU LIT HAS A CHAMP Now South Asian literature is on the rise throughout Canada, particularly in British Columbia as evidenced by Rajwant Chilana’s 500-page directory. It took him five years to complete, but now Rajwant Chilana of Surrey has been able to self-publish South Asian Writers in Canada, a reference work that identifies more than 700 South Asian (Indo-Canadian) writers in Canada. South Asian WritersBC Booklook
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Her second collection, The Swan Suit, contains a story called “East O” in which we are introduced to the last… FULL STORY CANADA’S OVERLOOKED PANDEMIC For the Dene and Inuvialuit in the NWT in 1928, “the white man introduced them to a new way to… FULL STORY EPILEPSY PIONEER FINALLY GETS HER DUE Doing house calls by canoe, sharing rooms with bats and scorpions, and getting poked and prodded by curious villagers were… FULL STORY THE CONSTABLE AND THE TRAIN ROBBER “Even though Bill was modest and did not push himself forward or seek the centre of attention,” writes Hatch, “his… FULL STORY INTER-GENERATIONAL TRAUMA “Nishga is not a poem, essay or a letter,” writes reviewer Latash Maurice Nahanee. “It is a documentation of one… FULL STORY B.C.’S MIGHTY SEA OTTER Being a “keystone species” otters have the power to hold an ecosystem together and their return to B.C. started a… FULL STORYORCA-STRATIONS
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TOLSTOY’S WORDS TO LIVE BY Leo Tolstoy’s first collection of “Daily Thoughts” was originally published in Russian in 1903. It’s available in May, forthe… FULL STORY
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VANCOUVER’S BRAVE NEW ARCHITECTURE What particularly impressed a mandarin from the east, Robert H. Hubbard, were the West Coast architects who were designing a… FULLSTORY
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You know a novel is working when you are disappointed when it ends—and you would prefer to remain in the… FULL STORY A SELF-PROPELLED MAN His memoir, Lines on a Map, has been shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Adventure Travel category…. FULLSTORY
REVOLVING W AND FLYING PIGS Now art critic Robert Amos provides an appreciative look at McKellar’s magical visions of Vancouver in the 1970s and 1980s….FULL STORY
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