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
Category: Book recommendations
Five Years of Consumed by Ink: 100 Recommended Canadian Books
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
Highlights of 2017
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
Best of Atlantic Canada 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
Literature on the Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia
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
Highlights of 2016: Part 3
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
Highlights of 2016: Part 2
In Highlights of 2016: Part 1, I focused on books form Atlantic Canada. Here I will focus on... The rest of Canada # of Canadian books read: 69 (last year, 59) % books Canadian: 67% (last year, 65.5%) STANDOUTS: (in no particular order) Watch How We Walk by Jennifer Lovegrove - Jehovah's Witnesses, coming-of-age The Douglas Notebooks by … Continue reading Highlights of 2016: Part 2
Highlights of 2016: Part 1
Atlantic Canada This year I tried to focus more on Reading Atlantic Canada, and ended up reading 22 books. 32% of my CanLit reading was from Atlantic Canada. Newfoundland - 7 Nova Scotia - 12 New Brunswick - 3 PEI - 0 (I'm remedying this right now by reading The Blythes are Quoted by L.M. Montgomery. … Continue reading Highlights of 2016: Part 1
A Literary Scavenger Hunt
Thanks to Naz @ Read Diverse Books who started the Diverse Books Tag, I've had a lot of fun hunting up some good bookish treasures. Naz started this book tag with the purpose of getting people to search for, share, and recommend a wide variety of books. I gave mine a CanLit twist. Canada is big, … Continue reading A Literary Scavenger Hunt
Looking Back On 2015
Am I allowed to have 36 books on my end-of-year list? Because that's how many I had at first, while trying to write a post like last year's (highlighting my favourite books by the month). So, I decided to simplify. Here's my pared down list (it only took me about 10 years to come up … Continue reading Looking Back On 2015
Consumed by Ink 