Tag: travel

• Patrin by Theresa Kishkan

  Never before has a book—much less a literary novella—had such an impact on my sense of place. Patrin’s European travels as a young woman, her homecoming to Victoria, and then her journey to find traces of her family and heritage in Czechoslovakia simultaneously conjured within me an intense wanderlust, a fierce sense of belonging, and an acute…

  Being Tori

  09.25.16

  Book Challenge 2016, Books, One-Liners

  Book Challenge, CanLit, family, gift, novella, Patrin, recommended, TAKE IT!, travel, wanderlust

• Stolen review: It’s Only the Himalayas

  I told my friend Michelle (hi, Michelle!) that she had to read S. Bedford‘s It’s Only the Himalayas: And Other Tales of Miscalculation from an Overconfident Backpacker. I badgered her about it for months leading up to its release. Really talked it up. She’s a busy mom of two tiny wee people, so she’s lucky if she has time…

  Being Tori

  05.10.16

  Books, I stole this

  backpacker, Brindle & Glass, haha funny, It’s Only the Himalayas, memoir, Real Review, S. Bedford, TAKE IT!, travel, travelogue, true stories, work

• Free book alert!

  At work, to celebrate the release of our spring titles, we’re giving away five copies of each. The first wave will be going out soon, so click on the photos below to enter to win by March 30.16.

  Being Tori

  03.28.16

  Books, Images, Work

  Brindle & Glass, Cait Morgan, Cathy Ace, Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, Essays, free books, giveaway, Goodreads giveaway, In This Together, It’s Only the Himalayas, Jayne Seagrave, mature travel, memoir, mystery, nonfiction, S. Bedford, solo travel, The Corpse with the Garnet Face, Time to Take Flight, TouchWood Editions, travel, travel guide, TRC, truth and reconciliation, Work books

• I work with books

  Behold: TouchWood Editions and Brindle & Glass books for spring 2016.

  Being Tori

  12.21.15

  Books, Work

  Alexandra Morton, Brindle & Glass, Butcher Baker in the Okangan, Carol Pearson, Cathy Ace, cookbook, Corpse Garnet Face, Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, Emily Carr As I Knew Her, Food Artisans of the Okanagan, Green River Falling, Heart of the Raincoast, In This Together, It’s Only the Himalayas, Jayne Seagrave, Jennifer Cockrall-King, Jennifer Schell, Julie Van Rosendaal, memoir, mystery, Out of the Orchard, RJ McMillen, S. Bedford, Time to Take Flight, TouchWood Editions, travel, truth and reconciliation

• The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson

  I don’t know that I could ever say it better than The Calgary Herald did: “Nothing less than gorgeous … Evocative and unforgettable, it manages to arouse both a longing for travel and a longing for home … It is beautiful. Both inside and out.” No. 16 on my challenge, in the sense that I went…

  Being Tori

  11.07.15

  Book Challenge 2015, Books, One-Liners

  Book Challenge, Calgary Herald, CS Richardson, fiction, literary, TAKE IT!, The End of the Alphabet, travel