Category: I wrote this

• 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

• I adore this.

  I can’t imagine how long it took to film this, or even how they went about it, but it’s wonderful. I applaud all those involved. [Source] There’s nothing quite like a real book.

  Being Tori

  07.17.15

  I stole this, I wrote this, Videos

  bookstore, random, Real Books, Short film, Toronto, Type Books, video

• I changed it up a bit.

  I like to keep things fresh, so I switched up the look of my blog a bit. Everything is still accessible, but you should probably have a look around to see what else you can see. Did you know I have some of my old articles from the Virden Empire-Advance posted? And the redesigned cover…

  Being Tori

  07.15.15

  I wrote this, Videos

  Hump Day, music, random

• 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

• 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

• Happy Father’s Day, Daddy!

  Being Tori

  06.21.15

  I wrote this, Images

  daddy, Father’s Day

• Proud of these!

  Every day I’m thankful to be working in the publishing industry, especially with these great companies and the amazing people that helped bring these books into the world. Here we have it: our spring line up from Brindle & Glass Publishing and TouchWood Editions.

  Being Tori

  06.20.15

  Books, I wrote this, Work

  Aaron Cully Drake, Angelo Prosperi-Porta, Bill Gallaher, Bill Terry, Black Tide Rising, books, Brindle & Glass Publishing, Cathy Ace, Cinda Chavich, Cinda Gault, cookbook, cooking, Corpse Sapphire Eyes, Do You Think This Is Strange?, fiction, gardening, gardening memoir, High Rider, historical fiction, Honey, memoir, mystery, novel, RJ McMillen, Spring 2015, The Carefree Garden, The Waste Not Want Not Cookbook, This Godforsaken Place, TouchWood Editions, work

• I have a new favourite thing

  So I was working (I swear) and I came across an amazing thing on Twitter: Sarah Wendell (@SmartBitches) is live tweeting her first read of Grey by E.L. James. I promise, it’s everything you’ve ever dreamed it would be. Exhibits A through K There’s more. Wayyyyyy more. And it’s just so good. And when you get your fill…

  Being Tori

  06.17.15

  Books, I stole this, I wrote this, Images

  Book, EL James, Fifty Shades of Grey, Grey, haha funny, Real Reviews, Tweets