Naomi MacKinnon
@consumedbyink.bsky.social
Reader, blogger, CanLit enthusiast
I'm opening a bookstore! Follow the ducks! 🦆📚🦆
Getting our ducks in a row! 🦆📚🌻
Opening day to be announced soon!
Opening day to be announced soon!
October 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I'm opening a bookstore! Follow the ducks! 🦆📚🦆
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Winding Up the Week #440
This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with literary anniversaries, focus on a past post deserving to be read an…
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September 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Covers of the books reviewed in the “All Non-fiction” issue of September 15th, 2025. #bookreviews www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa...
September 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Covers of the books reviewed in the “All Non-fiction” issue of September 15th, 2025. #bookreviews www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa...
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I’ve been working on my novel The Austens for a long time, and I’m having a big party to celebrate the launch (& Jane Austen’s 250th birthday & the Austen family’s connections with Nova Scotia). October 21st, Regency Ballroom, Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax.
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September 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’ve been working on my novel The Austens for a long time, and I’m having a big party to celebrate the launch (& Jane Austen’s 250th birthday & the Austen family’s connections with Nova Scotia). October 21st, Regency Ballroom, Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax.
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The covers of books reviewed this week at The Seaboard Review of Books. www.theseaboardreview.ca #canlit #fiction #poetry
September 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The covers of books reviewed this week at The Seaboard Review of Books. www.theseaboardreview.ca #canlit #fiction #poetry
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Covers of the books reviewed in the September 8th (Monday) edition of The Seaboard Review of Books. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa...
September 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Covers of the books reviewed in the September 8th (Monday) edition of The Seaboard Review of Books. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa...
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“Settle in for this weird, wild, wet Newfoundland supernatural adventure that will simultaneously provoke the heart and the mind.” @consumedbyink.bsky.social reviews FALSE BODIES by J.R. McConvey for us. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/false-bodi... #canlit #weirdfiction @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“Settle in for this weird, wild, wet Newfoundland supernatural adventure that will simultaneously provoke the heart and the mind.” @consumedbyink.bsky.social reviews FALSE BODIES by J.R. McConvey for us. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/false-bodi... #canlit #weirdfiction @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social
Catching Up With Nova Scotia Authors and Books consumedbyink.ca/2025/09/14/c... @nimbuspub.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @moosehousepress.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social #BoularderieIslandPress #CanLit #ReadAtlantic #NovaScotia #fiction
Catching Up With Nova Scotia Authors and Books
This is a group of books I read several months ago and am just catching up on now. They are by no means the only books by NS authors I’ve read this year, or recently. For example, I wrote abo…
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September 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Catching Up With Nova Scotia Authors and Books consumedbyink.ca/2025/09/14/c... @nimbuspub.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @moosehousepress.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social #BoularderieIslandPress #CanLit #ReadAtlantic #NovaScotia #fiction
OC Publishing: Julie Strong, Carolyn J. Nicholson, and Anne Louise O'Connell consumedbyink.ca/2025/08/25/o... #OCPublishing #CanLit #ReadAtlantic
OC Publishing: Julie Strong, Carolyn J. Nicholson, and Anne Louise O’Connell
OC Publishing is a tiny press out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Small but mighty. So far, I’ve sampled and enjoyed a delightful middle grade fantasy novel set on the Isle of Skye, a fast-paced mys…
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August 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
OC Publishing: Julie Strong, Carolyn J. Nicholson, and Anne Louise O'Connell consumedbyink.ca/2025/08/25/o... #OCPublishing #CanLit #ReadAtlantic
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It's here! Our 2025 Fall Fiction Preview with titles from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social!
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Most Anticipated: Our 2025 Fall Fiction Preview · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
All the fiction you'll be falling in love with in the second half of 2025.
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July 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
It's here! Our 2025 Fall Fiction Preview with titles from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social!
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49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/07... #CanLit
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The latest issue of The Seaboard Review of Books is out! Here are the covers of the 6 reviews contained in this week's issue. There is also an author interview and two "Hot Takes" to read about. Enjoy! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa... #canlit
July 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The latest issue of The Seaboard Review of Books is out! Here are the covers of the 6 reviews contained in this week's issue. There is also an author interview and two "Hot Takes" to read about. Enjoy! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa... #canlit
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Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Nina Berkhout's This Bright Dust (pub. @gooselane.bsky.social) in Issue 31!
...Berkhout’s work as a poet is also evident here, as she gently but relentlessly immerses readers in this dustbowl-era setting...
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...Berkhout’s work as a poet is also evident here, as she gently but relentlessly immerses readers in this dustbowl-era setting...
www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-ber...
June 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Nina Berkhout's This Bright Dust (pub. @gooselane.bsky.social) in Issue 31!
...Berkhout’s work as a poet is also evident here, as she gently but relentlessly immerses readers in this dustbowl-era setting...
www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-ber...
...Berkhout’s work as a poet is also evident here, as she gently but relentlessly immerses readers in this dustbowl-era setting...
www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-ber...
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Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Rod Moody-Corbett's Hides (pub. @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social) in Iss 31!
...we realise just how delicately he has held this whole mess in his storyteller’s grip, how tenderly he has pressed and released this story...
www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-moo...
...we realise just how delicately he has held this whole mess in his storyteller’s grip, how tenderly he has pressed and released this story...
www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-moo...
June 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Rod Moody-Corbett's Hides (pub. @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social) in Iss 31!
...we realise just how delicately he has held this whole mess in his storyteller’s grip, how tenderly he has pressed and released this story...
www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-moo...
...we realise just how delicately he has held this whole mess in his storyteller’s grip, how tenderly he has pressed and released this story...
www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-moo...
A Bookmark Plaque in Halifax, NS for Budge Wilson’s Story “The Leaving” sarahemsley.com/2025/07/11/a...
A Bookmark Plaque in Halifax, NS for Budge Wilson’s Story “The Leaving”
Project Bookmark Canada recently announced that a Bookmark plaque will be unveiled in Halifax for Budge Wilson’s short story “The Leaving.” I’m the organizer of the Nova Scotia Reading Circle for P…
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July 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A Bookmark Plaque in Halifax, NS for Budge Wilson’s Story “The Leaving” sarahemsley.com/2025/07/11/a...
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Maritime Memoirs: In Search of Puffins by Marjorie Simmins
I was always going to read this book; a memoir, in part, about Marjorie’s move from Cape Breton to Truro, Nova Scotia. I wanted to read an account of a newcomer moving to the town I’ve …
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July 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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“Each story drives you on to see what the next author has dreamed up for you. Highly compelling.” @agpasquella.bsky.social @jeffdupuis.bsky.social Great review by @consumedbyink.bsky.social www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/devouring-...
Devouring Tomorrow, edited by Jeff Dupuis and A.G. Pasquella
Reviewed by Naomi MacKinnon
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July 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“Each story drives you on to see what the next author has dreamed up for you. Highly compelling.” @agpasquella.bsky.social @jeffdupuis.bsky.social Great review by @consumedbyink.bsky.social www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/devouring-...
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💐📖 Budge Wilson and L.M. Montgomery are deeply connected. The two writers had each occupied, as young women, decades apart, the "Third-and-a-Half” room in Halifax Ladies’ College.
Now, Wilson will join Montgomery as another great Canadian writer whose work is honoured by a Project Bookmark plaque.
Now, Wilson will join Montgomery as another great Canadian writer whose work is honoured by a Project Bookmark plaque.
July 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
💐📖 Budge Wilson and L.M. Montgomery are deeply connected. The two writers had each occupied, as young women, decades apart, the "Third-and-a-Half” room in Halifax Ladies’ College.
Now, Wilson will join Montgomery as another great Canadian writer whose work is honoured by a Project Bookmark plaque.
Now, Wilson will join Montgomery as another great Canadian writer whose work is honoured by a Project Bookmark plaque.
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We've had so many new subscribers recently, that I thought a little introduction was in order. My name is James M. Fisher and I am the Founding Editor and current editor-in-chief of The Seaboard Review of Books, an online literary journal. Visit us at www.theseaboardreview.ca to subscribe.
July 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We've had so many new subscribers recently, that I thought a little introduction was in order. My name is James M. Fisher and I am the Founding Editor and current editor-in-chief of The Seaboard Review of Books, an online literary journal. Visit us at www.theseaboardreview.ca to subscribe.
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The most recent book reviews at TSR. Six impressive titles (and impressive reviews) from our latest issue. www.theseaboardreview.ca #canlit 🇨🇦 #bookreviews #booksofbluesky
May 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The most recent book reviews at TSR. Six impressive titles (and impressive reviews) from our latest issue. www.theseaboardreview.ca #canlit 🇨🇦 #bookreviews #booksofbluesky
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Vigil by @susieisnothere.bsky.social is nominated for the Alistair MacLeod Prize & the Thomas Raddall Fiction Award! You can hear Susie read live on Tuesday, June 3rd at An Evening of Short Stories Hosted by Alexander MacLeod or on Wednesday, June 4th at Fiction Fête! At The Chester Playhouse.
May 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Vigil by @susieisnothere.bsky.social is nominated for the Alistair MacLeod Prize & the Thomas Raddall Fiction Award! You can hear Susie read live on Tuesday, June 3rd at An Evening of Short Stories Hosted by Alexander MacLeod or on Wednesday, June 4th at Fiction Fête! At The Chester Playhouse.
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🏆 The Adversary by Michael Crummey has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award! 🏆
Nominated by Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries and published by Knopf Canada, this powerful novel takes the top honour in the award’s 30th year. 🎉
#DublinLitAward #DLA30yrs
Nominated by Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries and published by Knopf Canada, this powerful novel takes the top honour in the award’s 30th year. 🎉
#DublinLitAward #DLA30yrs
May 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🏆 The Adversary by Michael Crummey has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award! 🏆
Nominated by Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries and published by Knopf Canada, this powerful novel takes the top honour in the award’s 30th year. 🎉
#DublinLitAward #DLA30yrs
Nominated by Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries and published by Knopf Canada, this powerful novel takes the top honour in the award’s 30th year. 🎉
#DublinLitAward #DLA30yrs
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