The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation takes place on September 30 to honour the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities. Please join the Keep It Fictional Team in reading works by Indigenous authors. Books mentioned on this episode: Picking Up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket by Carey Newman and Kirstie Hudson, Tilly and the Crazy Eights by Monique Gray Smith, And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott, and The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava.

We continue our 200th anniversary episode with more existential questions: What book would you make every book friend read? How much influence does your book friends' recommendations actually have on your reading? Do you plan what you read ahead of time or see what your mood takes you? We also played a game of "how well do we know our book friends", and of course, we had to debate questions like what qualifies as a fantasy book, what animals do we not care to read in books, what's the point of sprayed edges, and bring up once again our book friends' bookbuying habits.

1085 books and 9607 minutes later, we have arrived at our 200th episode of the Keep It Fictional podcast from the Port Moody Public Library. Thank you, listeners, for joining us in the past four years, and we hope we'll get to spend many more with you.

For this special 200th episode, you will not only get to hear from Corene, Emma, Sadie, and Virginia, but also from three former book friends, who have come back for a reunion! We are so thankful that they have made the time to join us for a trip down the KIF memory lane.

In Part One of our anniversary episode, we will talk about we are reading right now, in exactly 200 words in honour of our 200th episode, and take a trip down the memory lane, and of course, dive into some existential questions. Stay tuned next week for Part Two next week.