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Design Principles PodFeel Good, Look Good: Performance vs Aesthetics in ArchitectureSend us a textWhat happens when award-winning architects and builders challenge the notion that sustainable, high-performance buildings must sacrifice aesthetics? This thought-provoking conversation brings together Passive House experts who are transforming New Zealand's built environment through buildings that are both beautiful and functional.Architect Rafe Maclean shares how client feedback about a poorly-performing design prompted his journey into building science, while Joe Lyth reveals the heartbreaking reality of watching his children develop respiratory issues in cold, damp rental properties. Builder Josh Atkins describes his frustration with energy-inefficient new homes that cost homeowners thousands in...2025-05-291h 04
The Busy Romnivores3: Menage a Not Quite TroisMenage a TroisDoes this Fit? The Busy Romnivores are here to tell you, it doesn’t always fit.The prompt for this episode is: Menage a Trois**There are spoilers in this episode.**Haley spins us up in Servant to the Spidae by Ruby DixonKristen steals your fate with Thieves and Monster by Clio EvansMarianna rants about Ink Enduring by Carrie Ann RyanSabrina scores big with Corsairs: Bethiah by Ruby Dixon...2023-09-262h 16
Lit Wallflowers PodcastEssex Sisters - Much Ado About YouThe Essex sisters arrived at the Duke of Holbrook’s estate as his wards in the first book of the Essex Sisters series, Much Ado About You by Eloisa James!! However, can you call women-of-age wards??Rafe, the Duke of Holbrook, expected young wards, but he got young-ish women. Now, the nursemaids he hired suddenly became ladies maids and he is doing what he can to find them respectable matches with only exceptional horses as their dowry.Tess, the eldest of the four sisters, believes a respectable marriage can be had with the duke’s friend...2022-04-1036 minLit Wallflowers PodcastAll the Duke's Sins - Along Came a Lady interview with Christi CaldwellWe want more Christi Caldwell in our lives especially after interviewing her for her new release “Along Came a Lady!”Etiquette instructor, Edwina Dalrymple, was hired for a different sort of charge, the adult kind. She was to turn the Duke of Bentley’s recently known illegitimate son, Rafe Audley, into a gentleman.Rafe hated the Duke and was surprised to see a woman turn up this time to bring him to London. However, he was as determined not to succumb to Edwina’s smiles as she was determined to do whatever it took to get him in...2021-09-231h 28
A Bookish AffairEpisode 7: You Had Us At BookmobileAhoy, romantics! In this episode, we'll discuss our favorite and least favorite traits in a romance hero. Vicars and nannies and step-princes, oh my! Plus, we'll enthuse about our recent and upcoming reads and offer our plea to the universe for some slightly less muscular heroes. For readalikes, book lists, and antiracism resources, or to learn more about attending a book club meeting, find us here: https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/library/online-bookish-affairBooks mentioned in this episode:Forbidden to the Gladiator by Greta GilbertSweet Disorder by Rose Lerner2020-07-211h 00
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse013. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams with Steve AmmidownGuest: Steve Ammidown (Manuscripts and Research Archivist at BGSU Browne Popular Culture Library)We read: The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay AdamsWebsite: BGSU Browne Popular Culture Library https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.htmlTwitter: @SteganBGSU Pop Culture Library TwitterBooks mentioned:Aphrodite’s Kiss by Julie KennerBrothers Sinister series by Courtney MilanEntwined Destinies by Elsie Washington - first category romance by a black woman featuring black main charactersGaywyck by Vincent VirgaThrowing Stones by Avery Cockburn (Curling Romance)Can you redeem baddies from book 1 in...2019-12-101h 18