My last post focused on Best Atlantic Canadian Reads of 2018. Here's everything else... Best Books (in addition to Best of Atlantic Canada 2018, in no particular order): The Prisoner and the Chaplain by Michelle Berry You Are Among Monsters by Jon R. Flieger The Red Word by Sarah Henstra (winner of the 2018 Governor General Literary … Continue reading Highlights of 2018
Three years ago I decided to challenge myself to read more books from Atlantic Canada. In my first year I read 22 from the region, and in my second year 30. This year I read 23. % of books read from Atlantic Canada: 26% (last year, 32%) Newfoundland: 7 (last year, 6) Nova Scotia: 14 (last year, 17) … Continue reading The Best of Atlantic Canada 2018
When I was in my first year or two of blogging, I would marvel at the bloggers who were hitting five years plus. But now I know how fast the time goes by. In celebration of my 5th year, I've compiled a list of some of the best Canadian books I've read and reviewed on … Continue reading Five Years of Consumed by Ink: 100 Recommended Canadian Books
My last post focused on favourite Atlantic Canadian reads of 2017. Here's everything else... Best Books (in addition to Best of Atlantic Canada 2017, in no particular order): Black Berry, Sweet Juice by Lawrence Hill Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont Between by Angie Abdou Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson Brother by … Continue reading Highlights of 2017
Two years ago I decided to challenge myself to read more books from Atlantic Canada. Last year I read 22 books from the region in total. This year I read 30. 30 is a higher number, but it turns out that it still only makes up about 32% of my reading... same as last year. … Continue reading Best of Atlantic Canada 2017
This spring and summer I got reading about Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia, inspired mostly by reading Lawrence Hill's Black Berry, Sweet Juice and by the subsequent discussion I had with my sister. Around the same time I also read Steal Away Home by Karolyn Smardz Frost. All of this made me want to know … Continue reading Literature on the Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia
In Highlights of 2016: Part 1, I focused on books from Atlantic Canada. In Highlights of 2016: Part 2, I focused on the rest of my Canadian content. In this post I will focus on... Everything else ... and then I'm done! Standouts: (in no particular order) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - read for Reading New … Continue reading Highlights of 2016: Part 3
