Tag: Emma Donoghue

• Room

  Wow. Just… wow. This woman is going to win everything.

  Being Tori

  12.20.15

  Movies, One-Liners

  based on the book, Brie Larson, Emma Donoghue, Oscars nom, Room, TAKE IT!

• 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 – 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

• Room by Emma Donoghue

  Amazing and disturbing. While I found it easy to sympathize with both Jack and Ma, it made me uncomfortable to realize that they both annoyed me, despite the fact that they were literally fighting for their lives. I’m a terrible person, but this is a good book.

  Being Tori

  11.13.14

  Books, One-Liners

  CanLit, Emma Donoghue, excited for the movie, novel, Room, TAKE IT!