Tag: young women
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A Chorus of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto
I first discovered Chorus of Mushrooms in a used bookstore. It’s red and black cover caught my eye and the title including mushrooms (in these fungi obsessed times) was enough for me to pick it up and take it home. Little did I know at that time this wonderful piece of fiction by Hiromi Goto…
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Lattes with Ladies: Ashlee DesRosiers
For the 2023 return of Lattes with Ladies I spoke to Ashlee Desrosiers, the blogger behind Books Are 42 and one of the co-hosts of the TBR Tackle Challenge, a bookstagram community and reading challenge page which I’ve become a part of! Ashlee shares how she got into reading more indie authors during the last…
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Lattes with Ladies: Jasmine Gui
I finally got the chance to transcribe this exciting interview with Jasmine Gui, translator, editor, and co-founder of the Project 40 Collective. She is a really, really cool lady whose passion for diversity and accessibility in literature have helped to create LooseLeaf Magazine and Col.lab Incubator. I became familiar with her stuff through Instagram and when I realized…
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Top 10 Bookstagrammers you need to follow
Ah, #Bookstagram. That wonderful world of photos of books and avid readers on the hunt for their next beautiful, great read. I only discovered bookstagram myself a little while ago, but since then I can’t get enough. In fact, you can follow me @hplreads to see some bookstagrams of my own. My favourite thing about…
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The Pain Tree by Olive Senior
I picked up The Pain Tree at the Word on the Street festival in Toronto this past fall. It was recommended to me at the Cormorant Books tent, and always happy to pick up more Canlit and Caribbean lit, I couldn’t say no! Olive Senior is a prolific writer, having published many volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and…
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Lattes with Ladies: Jessica Rodriguez!
This is an interview that I originally did back in December and it was another first for this blog. I interviewed Jessica Rodriguez, a really cool lady, and someone I technically met for the very first time. Jessica is a writer, marketer, and volunteer for Lean In Canada, where she blogs and runs a book…
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Lattes with Ladies: Lenore Ramirez
This week I chat with one of my nearest and dearest, Lenore Ramirez: designer, artist, food lover, and A+ friend about her deep love of graphic novels. HPL: So fam, what have you been reading lately? LR: I’ve actually been reading a lot of things. I’ve been reading In Progress by Jessica Hische. I’ve also been…
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Lattes with Ladies: Sara Kannan!
This week I Skyped my friend and former classmate Sara Kannan to talk about postcolonialism, urban fantasy, teen fiction, and books that make you weep for days. HPL: What you reading right now? SK: It’s called The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright. It’s about the conquest of Peru, and it’s mostly told through the perspective of…
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Lattes with Ladies: Victoria Stacey!
Victoria Stacey is a graphic designer, photographer, blogger, event planner, and A+ volunteer. She founded and ran Passion8 magazine for three years, is an executive for Young Women in Business – Toronto, and an avid crafter. HPL: What are you reading right now? VS: The Magicians. I’ve read three chapters of it because I don’t get…
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The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
What does twenty-two years old look like? “In love, impressed, humbled, scared.” That is exactly how Marina Keegan felt as she was graduating from Yale in 2012 and how it feels to read her book The Opposite of Loneliness. I selected Keegan’s book after I read the original essay. I heard about her talent, her job…