Category: Books

• Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

  Well, Oprah certainly enjoyed it more than I did, but I didn’t not like it. I just didn’t love it. I should have just sat down and read it in one sitting, but I don’t think I cared enough about the characters or the story to do so. All in all, though, it was a…

  Being Tori

  08.21.15

  Book Challenge 2015, Books, One-Liners

  Book Challenge, CanLit, Emma Donoghue, Frog Music, historical fiction, literary, literature, novel, San Francisco, take it or leave it

• Games with All Lit Up – Cycling

  After four weeks of competition—and some pretty amazing/head-shakingly bad sports puns—our PanLit Games are coming to a close with one final category: we’re taking it to the streets! No, we’re not talking dance (although that would have been amazing), we’re talking about cycling. Road cycling, popular since the late 1800s, is a test of stamina…

  Being Tori

  07.31.15

  Books, I wrote this

  A Stolen Life, All Lit Up, Cycling, Jaycee Dugard, kidnapping, memoir, PanLit Games

• Games with All Lit Up – Synchronized Swimming / Baseball / Gymnastics

  I finish what I start (unless, of course, I lose interest in season 7 of the Netflix show I’m binge watching, or the book I’m reading falls behind my dresser and my arms are too short to reach it—rest in peace, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank—or I’m bored with the pencil crayon colours I chose for my…

  Being Tori

  07.28.15

  Books, I wrote this

  All Lit Up, Attachments, Baseball, CanLit, Douglas Coupland, Emma Donoghue, fiction, Gymnastics, In the Skin of A Lion, Michael Ondaatje, novel, PanLit Games, Rainbow Rowell, Room, Synchronized Swimming, The Gum Thief

• Games with All Lit Up – Golf

  Welcome to another late entry. We credit the sport of golf with a lot: wearing multiple, differing prints at once; our first summer jobs shilling drinks to thirsty golfers; and driving in tiny cars instead of walking. We’ll also give it the hole-in-one, a thing that almost never happens in real golf (we think?) but…

  Being Tori

  07.17.15

  Books, I wrote this

  All Lit Up, BJ Novak, CanLit, David Sedaris, Golf, haha funny, Julie Paul, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, Little Fiction, One More Thing, PanLit Games, short stories, The Pull of the Moon

• 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

• 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!