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Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 6d

I'm opening a bookstore! Follow the ducks! 🦆📚🦆

The Happy Duck Bookshop & Readery @thehappyduckbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Getting our ducks in a row! 🦆📚🌻

Opening day to be announced soon!

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Paula Bardell-Hedley @bookjotter.bsky.social · 11d

bookjotter.com/2025/09/27/winding-up-the-week-440/ #AmReading #Books #BookReview #HispanicHeritageMonth25 @consumedbyink.bsky.social

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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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 21d

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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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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Graphic with book cover for The Austens by Sarah Emsley, with details about the launch, Oct. 21st, 7pm, Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, NS.

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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · Sep 3

The covers of books reviewed this week at The Seaboard Review of Books. www.theseaboardreview.ca #canlit #fiction #poetry

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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 29d

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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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · Aug 30

“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

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Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 23d

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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Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · Aug 25

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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49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social · Jul 17

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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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · Jul 22

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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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · Jun 17

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...

The cover of Nina Berkhout's novel This Bright Dust. It looks like a watercolor painting of a few houses on the prairies, with the most of the painting consisting of the large blue sky

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · Jun 17

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...

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The cover of Hides, by Rod Moody-Corbett. The background is a dark gold. There are similar but reversed paintings at the top and bottom; the painting at the top is upside down, so that the heads of the figures in both the top and bottom paintings point towards the title in the middle of the cover. The paintings depict what might be a field, with the skull of an ox in the lower one

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Trevor Chittick @trevorchittick.bsky.social · Jul 23

#NovaScotia

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A bookstore that's been a Halifax institution since 1987 is facing closure | CBC News

John W. Doull, Bookseller, will be forced to close if the business is unable to raise enough money to catch up on rent by Friday.

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Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · Jul 20

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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Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · Jul 10

consumedbyink.ca/2025/07/10/m... @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social #ReadAtlantic #CanLit #NovaScotia #CapeBreton #TruroNS #memoir #MarjorieSimmins

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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Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thanks, Chris! :)

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Chris Benjamin Nova Scotia Writer @benjaminwrites.bsky.social · Jul 10

“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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lmmipei.bsky.social @lmmipei.bsky.social · Jul 8

💐📖 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.

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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · Jul 1

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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Atlantic Book Awards @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social · Jun 3

drum roll!

The Winners Are...

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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · May 28

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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Atlantic Book Awards @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social · May 29

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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Heather J. "Witchy" Wood🧙‍♀️ @rollwithheather.bsky.social · May 30

2025 Crime Writers of Canada Award winners announced #CanLit
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THE 2025 AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE WINNERS | Crime Writers of Canada Events & Announcements

OTTAWA, ON – May 30, 2025 – Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) is pleased to announce the Winners of the 2025 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing. Since 1984, Crime...

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Dublin Literary Award @dublinlitaward.bsky.social · May 22

🏆 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

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