Category: One-Liners
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Winter by Marissa Meyer
Typically, when I have to wait for a long while between books in a series, I lose interest and drop it. But I am glad that I powered through to finish Meyer’s Lunar Chronicals (minus Fairest, which is still on my list). With this last book, it became very clear that Meyer had a solid, entertaining,…
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
A stunning love letter to pianos: “We invest it with our dreams, we touch it offhandedly as we walk by, we crown it with favorite photos and treasured objects until it becomes a kind of domestic shrine. But when it is gone from our lives, it can’t really be replaced, not for what it encompasses as…
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
I do believe I’ll read more Hemingway in the future. I quite enjoy his witty characters and staccatoed sentences. Besides, he wrote this: “I drank a bottle of wine for company … A bottle of wine was good company.” I think we would have gotten along splendidly. No. 25 on my challenge. This year marks…
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Creed
Up until the last 15 minutes, this was the okayest movie of 2015. And then BAM. I’m yelling at the tv.
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Lyrics and Poems by John K. Samson
I won’t lie, I read this strictly because my book challenge called for a book of poems. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it—some of my favourite songs by the Weakerthans are in this book—poetry just isn’t my first love… or my second, or third. No. 15 on my challenge. It’s no coincidence that this book came…
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E
I may not have been fully aware of what was happening 37% of the time, but I am 100% certain that Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer made it more than worth my while.
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The Martian
If there’s one thing the Martian taught me, it’s that I would die right away if my crew left me for dead on a deserted, uncompromising planet. So let’s make a pact right here, right now not to do that, m’kay? Favourite line: “I’m going to have to science the shit out of this.” Biggest…
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Legend
In the immortal words of Barney Stinson, it was “Legend … wait for it (and I hope you’re not lactose intolerant, because the second half of that word is dairy)… legendary!” Tom Hardy pulls off a dual role not seen since Lindsay Lohan’s masterful 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. In all seriousness, Legend is gritty, witty, and chock…
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Brooklyn
I had very high hopes for this movie. I have long been a fan of Saoirse Ronan—she’s such a chameleon—and I’m a sucker for period dramas and love stories and anything to do with Ireland and travel and new beginnings. So you can imagine my relief when I loved it. Absolutely. The story was authentic, the cinematography…
Being Tori 