Being Tori

Well hello there!

It’s been a hot minute, friends, and I just want to start off by saying HAPPY NEW YEAR / 30th BIRTHDAY TO ME / VALENTINE’S DAY / ST PATRICK’S DAY / EASTER / SPRING! How the heck are ya? I missed you!

As you may or (more likely) may not have noticed, I failed at my 2017 book challenge. I failed hard, people. Not only did I not complete the totally doable list of 26 books, I also didn’t post (or even write) reviews for the majority of the books that I did read, AND I didn’t finish reading an embarrassing number of the books that I started to read. So yeah. Not great. But we’re well into 2018 and I’m back, Baby! What’s more: I HAVE been reading and I CAN do better . . . or at the very least I can update my blog. So, coming up:

• The Autobiography of Malcom X as told to Alex Haley
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
• Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Judging a Book by Its Lover by Lauren Leto
• The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
• The Revenant by Michael Punke
• Girl at War by Sara Nović
• Etta and Otto and Russel and James by Emma Hooper
• One Day Closer by Lorinda Stewart
• Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

And now, for my next trick paragraph, I can tell you that in 2018, instead of tackling another challenge with my dear friend Rosie, I decided to join not one but two book clubs (and—unrelated, but a super fun time nonetheless—a choir) with another dear friend, Jessica. So I’ll have to review those, too:

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty 
• The Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese
• Next Year for Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Furthermore, because I’m a rebel, I think I can read whatever the heck I want to read whenever the heck I want to read it, whether it’s on a list or not. So you’ll be getting reviews for these, as well:

• Blameless by Gail Carriger
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrille Zevin
• I Can’t Make This Up by Kevin Hart with Neil Strauss
• Astray by Emma Donoghue

Finally (thanks for sticking with me, folks), as you may know, I don’t review books that I’ve read for work, but I do like to list them to subtly suggest ya’ll read them, too. So if you want to know what we’ve been working on, check out this page.

Fin.