HPPR Radio Readers Book Club presents The 2021 Fall Read: Rivers - Meandering Meaning

Published August 2, 2021 at 9:18 PM CDT

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A Good Once Begun

Glenda Shepherd

This is Glenda Shepherd at Yucca Corners Farm in Stanton County, Kansas. I’m reviewing American Mother by Collum McCann and Diane Foley.American Mother ends with these two lines:“ Everything good, once begun, lasts. Nothing ever truly ends. ”
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The Choice

Marjory Hall

Hi, I’m Marjory Hall from Goodwell, Oklahoma with a BookByte for our 2025 Fall Read. American Mother by Colum McCann and Diane Foley is, as the title suggests, about a mother’s reaction to the death of her child. This mother, though, must navigate an unusual element of her child’s passing.
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Grief and the Courage to Forgive

Mildred Rugger

Hi, everyone. This is Mildred Rugger from Canyon, Texas, for the 2025 Fall Read of HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. As I did my usual pre-reading overview of American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley, I felt like this book would take me for an emotionally heavy ride.
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Recipes and Poems

Traci Brimhall

Hi, I’m Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas and here today to talk about the book Eat Your Words: A Kansas Poetry Cookbook. It’s a collection of recipes and poems I helped edit that collected 20 recipes from 20 chefs across the great state of Kansas, from urban centers to small towns, from restaurants to farms to food trucks.
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The Universal Irony of War

Marjory Hall

Hi from Goodwell, in the Oklahoma panhandle! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for our 2025 Fall Read. I imagine that war has been a topic of philosophical consideration for as long as there has been war.