Tag: Jonas Jonasson

• The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson

  In my opinion Mr. Jonasson has a knack for three things: 1) Writing characters who make the best out of the absolute worst. Take, for example, Nombeko, the heroine of this jaunty little tale. She was born in a South African slum, orphaned at ten, run over by a car, practically imprisoned for more than a […]

  Being Tori

  09.11.16

  Book Challenge 2016, Books, One-Liners

  Book Challenge, comedy, haha funny, Jonas Jonasson, novel, Satire, TAKE IT!, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, translation

• 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

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

  Hilarious; scandalous and hopeful. The movie is on Canadian Netflix right now. It adheres pretty closely to the book, but it is decidedly less awesome than the book. Watch it only if you want to read subtitles for 85% of the movie.

  Being Tori

  12.08.14

  Books, Movies, One-Liners

  Jonas Jonasson, movie, novel, TAKE IT!, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared