Catherine Vendryes

Catherine Vendryes

An expert storyteller who brings big and small brands to life.

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  • Lattes with Ladies: Jessie Ho

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    It’s my first international Lattes with Ladies featuring the intrepid Jessie Ho! Jessie is a writer, aspiring creative, fashion fiend, media addict, would-be social entrepreneur, and my old roommate from university. In between catching up over Skype, we talked about our reading lives in a post-grad world and the challenges of finding books in Hong Read.

  • There’s just something about Bathsheba – a feminist icon for today

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    I first read Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd about two years ago and loved it, so when I saw the title appear on Netflix I knew I would have to write about it! Bathsheba, Hardy’s protagonist has been one of my favourite feminist icons in literature, and with the Women’s March on Washington  just last Read.

  • Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

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    Do Not Say We Have Nothing is a critically acclaimed new novel from Madeleine Thien. Winner of the Giller Prize and Governor General’s Award as well as shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal, it is effectively the book of 2016. I can’t believe I actually read it before Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Lenore Ramirez

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    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, 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 reading Read.

  • A Brief History of Seven Killings by James Marlon

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    Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings opens with a Jamaican proverb: “If it no go so, it go near so.” As a fictional account of very real events, it’s hard to think of a more fitting phrase. I’d been meaning to read A Brief History for many months. A year, in fact, as a Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Sara Kannan

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    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 Read.

  • Rich and Poor by Jacob Wren

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    I picked up Rich and Poor at the Book Thug tent at Word on the Street. Struck at first by its beautiful cover, the synopsis really hooked me with its brutal honesty: “Rich and Poor is a novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act.” Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Victoria Stacey

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    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 a Read.

  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

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    I woke the next morning knowing that nothing would be the same. It would change and go on changing. Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea has been on my list for a long time. The story gives new voice to Bertha, the boogeywoman from one of my favourite novels, Jane Eyre. Reimagined as Antoinette Cosway in Rhys’ beautiful, ripe world Read.

  • Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull

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    Ed Catmull’s Creativity Inc. was an accomplishment for me. I’ve never been a huge fan of non-fiction books. Not that I shy away from the genre as a whole but that I prefer a deep delve into a narrative which many authors of non-fiction don’t fulfill. Catmull, as one of the founders of Pixar, doesn’t Read.