Being Tori

Games with All Lit Up – Pentathlon

We don’t know about you, but the modern pentathlon seems exhausting. Like, makes us want to sit down and take a nap just thinking about it. What is the pentathlon, you ask? We had to do some research as well. The modern pentathlon is actually meant to stimulate the diverse skills a 19th century cavalry…

Being Tori

07.14.15

Books, I wrote this

All Lit Up, CanLit, EL Konigsburg, Eli Horowitz, fiction, Jenny Lawson, Jonas Jonasson, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Marina Chapman, memoir, Noisy Outlaws, novel, PanLit Games, Pentathlon, short stories, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The Girl with No Name, The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, YA
Games with All Lit Up – Boxing

Turns out I’m not great with schedules—even those I set for myself. So here’s my Thursday post on Saturday. Boxing has traditions that go back as far as ancient Rome and Greece but it wasn’t until the 1700s that rules were first introduced (eeeekkk!). These rules ushered in the modern era of boxing, with protective…

Being Tori

07.11.15

Books, I wrote this

Aaron Cully Drake, All Lit Up, Boxing, CanLit, Do You Think This Is Strange?, Jeannette Walls, Lisa Genova, PanLit Games, Still Alice, The Glass Castle
Spy

Do you know what? This movie is funny. Bleedin’ hilarious. “You really think you’re ready for the field? I once used defibrillators on myself. I put shards of glass in my eye. I’ve jumped from a high-rise building using only a raincoat as a parachute and broke both legs upon landing; I still had to…

Being Tori

07.11.15

Movies, One-Liners

comedy, haha funny, Jason Statham, Jude Law, Melissa McCarthy, movie, Spy, TAKE IT!
This Godforsaken Place by Cinda Gault

Originally posted on Consumed by Ink: It is 1885, and Abigail Peacock wishes she had never come to this Godforsaken place (otherwise known as Northwestern Ontario). No matter how much I want to deny it, I had to admit that I was inescapably trapped, bayed in this Godforsaken place, and brought to my knees with…

Being Tori

07.08.15

Books, I stole this

Abigail Peacock, Annie Oakley, Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, CanLit, Cinda Gault, Gabriel Dumont, historical fiction, New York, novel, This Godforsaken Place
Games with All Lit Up – Discus Throw

Discus was played at the earliest Olympic Games in Ancient Greece. We’re no sports experts, but it’s basically a heavy frisbee thrown vertically that no one catches (aka ancient frolf). Likewise, the art of debate, Socratic or otherwise, has been around for millenia. But un-likewise, you’d definitely want to catch these “discus”sion-prompting book athletes, ones…

Being Tori

07.07.15

Books, I wrote this

All Lit Up, An Altar in the Wilderness, Becoming Water, books, CanLit, challenge, Denying the Source, Digging the City, Discussion, Ethical Water, Flood Forecast, Grizzly Manifesto, Homeward Wolf, Incomparable Honeybee, Insatiable Bark Beetle, Little Black Lies, Manifesto, On Fracking, PanLit Games, Rocky Mountain Books, Saving Lake Winnipeg, Technology and Sustainability, The Beaver Manifesto, The Climate Nexus, The Columbia River Treaty, The Earth Manifesto, The Weekender Effect
Games with All Lit Up

I love All Lit Up (the Literary Press Group’s platform for buying, sharing, and collecting CanLit). They have an amazing blog where they showcase a lot of great Canadian talent, and they sell ebooks and print at the publishers prices so the authors get to make more money. For these reasons and more, I’ll be doing…

Being Tori

07.06.15

Books, I stole this, I wrote this

All Lit Up, books, CanLit, challenge, PanLit Games
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

This is my first encounter with Vonnegut. Yes, it’s a classic. Yes, it’s satirical and anti-war. Yes, it’s very good. But holy Batman is it odd. I was not expecting Tralfamadorians. So it goes. No. 19 on my challenge. Not because I didn’t read it in high school, but because my teachers should have assigned it in…

Being Tori

06.30.15

Book Challenge 2015, Books, One-Liners

Book Challenge, Classic American Novel, Kurt Vonnegut, Satire, Slaughterhouse Five, TAKE IT!
CBGB

Alan Rickman is a genius. Apparently so was Hilly Kristal. Too bad I wasn’t a New Yorker in the seventies—I think I would have had fun at CBGB.

Being Tori

06.28.15

Movies, One-Liners

Alan Rickman, Ashely Greene, CBGB, Donal Logue, Hilly Kristal, Johnny Galecki, Justin Bartha, Malin Ackerman, movie, music, punk, Rupert Grint, Stana Katic, TAKE IT!
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

There were more laughs than I expected. Earl (RJ Cyler) is my favourite, but Nick Offerman and Molly Shannon are fantastic as comic relief (obviously), and Thomas Mann is very convincing.

Being Tori

06.28.15

Movies, One-Liners

coming of age, Connie Britton, didn’t read the book, haha funny, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Molly Shannon, movie, Nick Offerman, Olivia Cooke, RJ Cyler, TAKE IT!, Thomas Mann
The Longest Ride

Typical Nicholas Sparks: Old couple, young couple, romance, fight, romance. But I will say this: Scott Eastwood is too sexy. He should have to pay Attractive Taxes.

Being Tori

06.28.15

Movies, One-Liners

Alan Alda, Britt Robertson, chick flick, didn’t read the book, movie, Nicholas Sparks, romance, Scott Eastwood, take it or leave it, The Longest Ride