Tag: books

• I should be sleeping…

  But Don’t Worry, It Gets Worse by Alida Nugent is keeping me up. I wonder if my hysterical laughter is keeping my landlords up?  #worthit

  Being Tori

  09.27.15

  Books, I wrote this, Images

  Alida Nugent, am reading, books, Don’t Worry It Gets Worse, haha funny, memoir

• 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

• 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

• Found in Today’s New Yorker

  Link to original story in the New Yorker. We draw on the same brain networks when we’re reading stories and when we’re trying to guess at another person’s feelings. ILLUSTRATION BY SARAH MAZZETTI  Several years ago, I was given as a gift a remote session with a bibliotherapist at the London headquarters of the School of Life,…

  Being Tori

  06.09.15

  Books, I stole this

  bibliotherapist, bibliotherapy, books, Ceridwen Dovey, Is Reading the New Therapy?, New Yorker, reading, Sarah Mazzetti, The New Yorker

• What else am I to do?

  It’s 10pm on a Saturday. Obviously now is the perfect time to start reading an 850 page novel about romance and time travel.  Anyone want to hazard a guess as to which number this fulfills on my book challenge? Update. I’ve finished. It was amazing. It could have fulfilled five numbers on my challenge: No 1. A…

  Being Tori

  04.25.15

  Books, I wrote this

  books, Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, Signed

• Unabrow: Misadventures of a Late Bloomer by Una LaMarche

  Una LaMarche is my spirit animal. She has a “Shit List Bingo” card that calls out the “lotto bitch who never calls your numbers,” and “people who misplace apostrophe’s like moron’s.” I love her. No. 3 on my challenge (obviously).

  Being Tori

  04.25.15

  Book Challenge 2015, Books, One-Liners

  Book Challenge, books, Essays, haha funny, I hope there’s a movie, memoir, TAKE IT!, Una Lamarche, Unabrow

• Bookish Alphabet

  This seemed like fun, so I stole it from HiddenStaircase. It’s rather self explanatory. Author You’ve Read The Most Books From Either Janet Evanovich or Sandra Brown. Don’t judge me. I am a voracious reader of all sorts. Best Sequel Ever A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs. Though technically not a sequel, it was the second book of his that I read about…

  Being Tori

  04.24.15

  Books, I wrote this

  A Wolf at the Table, Alessandro Baricco, Alexandre Dumas, All My Friends Are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman, Augusten Burroughs, BJ Novak, books, Cadillac Couches, CS Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Furiously Happy, Gabrielle Zevin, Guilia Enders, Gut, Harry Potter, Jeanette Walls, Jenny Lawson, JK Rowling, John Elder Robison, Kathleen Grissom, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lisa Genova, Look Me In the Eye, Marissa Meyer, One More Thing, Q&A, Sandra Brown, Sara Gruen, Silk, Sophie B. Watson, Still Alice, Thad Carhart, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Glass Castle, The Great Gatsby, The Kitchen House, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Lunar Chronicles, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, Una Lamarche, Unabrow, Water for Elephants, Winter

• Here we go 

  The beginning of the end.

  Being Tori

  04.12.15

  Books, I wrote this

  books, currently reading, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Dealthly Hallows, JK Rowling, The Deathly Hallows, YA

• #MugglesReadAlong

  I noticed that there’s an Instagram hashtag for those of us reading Harry Potter. This is my contribution. I, like everyone else, hate Umbridge.

  Being Tori

  04.04.15

  Books, I wrote this

  books, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Order of the Phoenix, YA