Being Tori

All the Books

Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Tori, you haven’t reviewed a book in over a month. Are you all right? Has someone robbed you of your TBR pillars? Have you sustained a terrible blow to the head, making you illiterate and only able to review movies by dictating them to friends and coworkers? Have you…

Being Tori

04.05.16

Book Challenge 2016, Books, I wrote this, Images

am reading, Augusten Burroughs, Be Frank with Me, Big Truths, Book Challenge, Carol Pearson, currently reading, Emily Carr As I Knew Her, Ernest Hemingway, Gail Carriger, Green Hills of Africa, Julia Claiborne Johnson, Little Fiction, Little Fiction | Big Truths, Magical Thinking, Nomfiction, Soulless
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens

Do you know what’s great about this movie? Everything. Everything.

Being Tori

04.01.16

Movies, One-Liners

Adam Driver, C3PO, Carrie Fisher, Chewbacca, Daisy Ridley, Domhnall Gleeson, Episode VII, Finn, Han Solo, Harrison Ford, Jedi, John Boyega, Kylo Ren, Leia, Luke Skywalker, R2D2, Rey, Star Wars, Star Wars The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Episode VII, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, TAKE IT!, The Force Awakens
Straight Outta Compton

So you know that producer who released those fancy headphones that cost and arm and a leg? And the angry police chief in 21 Jump Street? This movie is about them. (That was my only frame of reference going in to this. And then…) I am in awe of the casting director for this movie.…

Being Tori

03.31.16

Movies, One-Liners

biopic, DJ Yella, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Ice Cube Jr., Mc Ren, nsfw, NWA, rap, Straight Outta Compton, TAKE IT!
Free book alert!

At work, to celebrate the release of our spring titles, we’re giving away five copies of each. The first wave will be going out soon, so click on the photos below to enter to win by March 30.16.

Being Tori

03.28.16

Books, Images, Work

Brindle & Glass, Cait Morgan, Cathy Ace, Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, Essays, free books, giveaway, Goodreads giveaway, In This Together, It’s Only the Himalayas, Jayne Seagrave, mature travel, memoir, mystery, nonfiction, S. Bedford, solo travel, The Corpse with the Garnet Face, Time to Take Flight, TouchWood Editions, travel, travel guide, TRC, truth and reconciliation, Work books
Happy Easter!

I’ve been very busy lately, and I haven’t read a word that I can review here, but I did take this lovely photo while I was out and about today, so have that instead. HAPPY EASTER, READERS!

Being Tori

03.27.16

I made this, Images

daffodil, Easter, photo, sunny
Cuckoo

I started watching this for Andy Samberg (I was hoping for another Peralta in this Cuckoo character), but the reason to keep watching is Greg Davies. Good Lord that man is funny. Samberg pales greatly in comparison. Yet another hilarious British comedy.

Being Tori

03.17.16

One-Liners, Television

Andy Samberg, BBC, British comedy, British television, Cuckoo, Emily from Friends, Greg Davies, haha funny, new age, TAKE IT!, Tamla Kari, Taylor Lautner, tv
Dag nab it

This was me this morning, when my alarm ruined the blissful nap I was having an hour earlier than acceptable: This was me all day, cursing Daylight Savings Time: This was me after work, happily caffeinated, walking home in the high sunshine: This was me when I realized I’m a mega hypocrite:

Being Tori

03.14.16

I wrote this, Moving Images

Daylight Savings, gif, gif emotion
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, and Martin Freeman are really just wonderful. Comedic in all the right places, serious in all the rest. I’d like to see Ms. Fey in more movies of this sort.

Being Tori

03.14.16

Movies, One-Liners

based on the book, comedy, haha funny, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, serious in all the right places, TAKE IT!, Tina Fey, war reporter, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Jurassic World

Oh boy. I had so many questions while watching this movie—the two most important, and subsequently most uttered, being: “Who the hell was in charge of Jessica Chastain’s Bryce Dallas Howard’s costume?” and “Wait! What? WHY?!”—but ultimately I enjoyed myself entirely. If you can totally suspend your disbelief (and I mean totally… like, past the point…

Being Tori

03.14.16

Movies, One-Liners

Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Crispy Rat, Dinosaurs, FRIGGEN DINOSAURS, Jurassic World, Not Jessica Chastain, Take it but don’t take it too seriously, TAKE IT!
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

What more can be said of this delightful tale and its ineffable heroine than has already been said, or at least thought, by literally millions of readers over more than one hundred years and many generations? Anne (with an e) is captivating. I’ve always thought so. (And just look at this beautiful new edition from…

Being Tori

03.06.16

Book Challenge 2016, Books, One-Liners

Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, Book Challenge, Canada, Canadian classic, Canadian fiction, childhood favourite, fiction, Gilbert Blythe, icon, L.M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery, PEI, TAKE IT!, YA