Tag: Lisa Genova

• 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

• 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

• Still Alice by Lisa Genova

  Never have I read a narrative so terrifying. It is poignant, thoughtful, and distressingly believable. Alzheimer’s Disease has always been scary—now it may be my greatest fear. No. 2 on my challenge. I cannot wait to see this movie.

  Being Tori

  01.19.15

  Book Challenge 2015, Books, One-Liners

  Alzheimer’s Disease, Book Challenge, Lisa Genova, novel, Still Alice, TAKE IT!