Clara schools her brother-in-law in the art of visualizing a fictional (or historical) world through the lens of costume design. Were people 10,000+ years ago were as style conscious as we are today?

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Non-Fiction

• Fashion History from the 18th to the 20th Century
• ⁠Max Factor's Hollywood⁠

Fiction

• The Name of the Wind | Audiobook
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians | Audiobook
• The Fault in our Stars | Audiobook
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing | Audiobook
• A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor | Audiobook

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Greg and collector Jay Zarysky explore their mutual enthusiasm for Earthworm Jim and the willingness to trial-by-purchase in the pursuit of new and cool things.

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Comics / Graphic Novels:

• Earthworm Jim - Launch the cow!
• Bigfoot Bill
• Calvin and Hobbes
• Rat Fink

Fiction:

• The mortal Instruments Series | Audiobook

Non-Fiction:

• A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Baeh

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Kootenays band: Bath

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Greg sits down with Renaissance man and father-in-law Alan Foy to discuss long-form fantasy epics, the layering of perception from various pursuits, and the layering of soil in lasagne gardens.

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Fiction:

• ⁠The Fifth Sacred Thing
• Dune 1 - 6 | Audiobook
• ⁠The Lord of the Rings⁠ | ⁠Audiobook
• Ender's Game | Audiobook
• ⁠The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan⁠ | ⁠Audiobook

Non-Fiction:

• Baked to Perfection (theloopywhisk.com)
• Lasagne Gardening

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Greg sits down with his mother-in-law Grace of the Reading Beauties book club (formerly known as the Grim Readers) to discuss the value of exploring important though uncomfortable subject matter and the appeal of historical fiction.

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Fiction:

• The Whalebone Theatre | Audiobook
• Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
• Outlander⁠ | ⁠Audiobook
• Stones from the River
• Station Eleven | Audiobook

Authors:

• Louise Penny | Audiobook
• Barbara Kingsolver | Audiobook
• Richard Wagamese | Audiobook

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Cale & Hannah host Fav Reads hosts Greg & Jocelyne in an exploration of cook books as literature and the benefit of short stories in our busy digital age.

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Cook Books:

• In Praise of Veg
• Everything I want to Eat
• Dessert Person
• The Joy of Cooking
• Clueless in the Kitchen

Short Stories:

• Lorie Moore | Audiobook
• White Knights | Audiobook
• Angela Carter
• Anton Chekhov | Audiobook

Non-Fiction

• The Dawn of Everything | Audiobook

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Greg & Fois dig into Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and James Ellroy.

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Fiction:

• Blood Meridian | Audiobook
• No Country for Old Men | Audiobook
• Blood's a Rover
• Gravity's Rainbow | Audiobook

Calgary band Witch Victim

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Chicken or egg: people listening because you're making money, or making money because people are listening?

In the Fav Reads season 2 opener, returning guest Sean Nixon shares some exciting news and discusses riddles like this with Fav Reads host Greg Block.

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McGoshe vs. the purchase-rapists.