TSR Newsletter: January 6th, 2025

Volume 2, Issue 1

Jan 06, 2025

Hello, TSR Subscriber! You are looking at the first newsletter of 2025! Many of you requested to receive one email a week instead of flooding your inbox with an email for every new posting. Below you will find links to all the recent reviews which have been posted at The Seaboard Review website.

In case you missed it, here are our staff picks for the Best Books of 2024:

The Seaboard Review's Picks for Best Reads of 2024

The Seaboard Review

December 21, 2024

Here are our favourite books that we enjoyed reading and reviewing in 2024.

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The Gray City by Torben Kuhlmann (Author), David Henry Wilson (Translator)

The Seaboard Review

Jan 6

The Gray City by Torben Kuhlmann (Author), David Henry Wilson (Translator)

When Robin moves with her father to a new city, she quickly discovers how dull and lacklustre her new home is. The buildings are grey, the clothing is grey, even people’s moods and attitudes are grey. At school, Robin is punished for her overly ebullient drawings, her colourful scene standing out for all the wrong reasons against the wall of grey drawin…

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What Kind of Daughter? by Rayanne Haines

Bryn Robinson

Jan 6

What Kind of Daughter? by Rayanne Haines

A collection of poems and short essays, What Kind of Daughter? takes no prisoners as it explores the fight women have to share their voice and preserve their authentic selves.

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EXCERPT: White World by Saad T. Farooqi

The Seaboard Review

Jan 6

Saad T. Farooqi was born in Saudi Arabia and moved to Pakistan before his first birthday. There, he survived three separate kidnapping attempts before he was eight. His family eventually settled in the United Arab Emirates. Saad immigrated to Canada in 2015 and resides in London, Ontario. His debut novel,

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A Canadian Chaplain in the Great War by Ross Hebb

Heather McBriarty

Jan 6

A Canadian Chaplain in the Great War by Ross Hebb

Without permission from his bishop, 30-year-old, Chatham New Brunswick-native, Father Benedict J Murdoch signed on with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1916 as a Roman Catholic chaplain. Serving in the training camps and the front-line trenches, and following the CEF into the Rhineland in December 1918, Murdoch experienced the hardships and brutalit…

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Selecky Helps Writers Fine-Tune Their Mindset: Story is a State of Mind

Lisa Timpf

Jan 6

Selecky Helps Writers Fine-Tune Their Mindset: Story is a State of Mind

In Story is a State of Mind: Writing and the Art of Creative Curiosity, Sarah Selecky helps writers get in the groove by attending to their writing mindset. Deep noticing, allowing space for thinking, and nurturing a sense of curiosity are among the topics explored in Selecky’s book.

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What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time by Ian Williams

The Seaboard Review and Selena Mercuri

Jan 6

What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time by Ian Williams

What resonates with me most about Ian Williams’s writing—whether fiction, nonfiction, or poetry—is his bold experimentation with form, which mirrors the complexities of human communication. What I Mean to Say, as playful as it is insightful, is no exception. In this conversation about conversations, Williams interweaves text messages, scripts, bars of s…

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