Jane Holwerda
HPPR Radio Readers Book LeaderAfter 21 years at Dodge City Community College, Dr. Jane Holwerda retired in May, having served as English faculty, Humanities Division Chair, Dean of Instruction and most recently Vice President of Academic Affairs. In addition to her academic and administrative work, Holwerda has shared her passion for reading with Radio Readers Book Club having served as a Book Leader in the inaugural 2016 Spring Read.
A native of Lindsborg, Kan., Jane holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Marymount College in Kansas, a Master of Arts in English, with high honors and a doctorate in American Studies with distinction both from Saint Louis University.
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Well, Radio Readers, how about this fabulously curious Fall 2024 book series “Through the Eyes of a Child”? What a fascinating stretch of reading over the past several months, right? Alice in Wonderland, Everything Sad is Untrue, The Blue Book of Nebo, and Long Way Down: our reading journey this fall has immersed us in various settings, genres, and cultures. -
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda in Dodge City, Kansas, about the fourth and last book in our Fall 2024 series, “Through the Eyes of a Child.” Published in 2017, Long Way Down is the work of North American author Jason Reynolds, recipient of Newbury and Caldecott literary awards for his children’s and young adult books. -
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda in Dodge City, Kansas. The third novel in our Fall 2024 Series “Through the Eyes of a Child” is The Blue Book of Nebo, published in 2021, and the work of Welsh author Manon Steffan Ros. -
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda. We’re engaging with the second book of our Fall 2024 series Through the Eyes of a Child. An autobiographical novel, Everything Sad is Untrue recounts a life of exile, refuge and asylum as an immigrant family struggles to adjust to life in Edmond, Oklahoma. -
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda. For our Fall 2024 series, we’re reading and talking about books that depict worlds Through the Eyes of a Child. This week, we’re wrapping up the classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. -
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda. For our Fall 2024 Read, we’re reading and talking about books that depict worlds Through the Eyes of a Child, starting with the classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, a read which offers curiouser and more curiouser encounters on each page. -
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda. Our Fall 2024 Read: Through the Eyes of a Child, begins with a book that has entertained generations for almost 160 years. Continuously in print, translated into 174 languages, adapted for theatre, opera, ballet and film, an influencer of musicians and writers in our own time: the book is of course, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. -
This classic explores the wondrous, sometimes bizarre of Alice on a journey through wonderland as she encounters a hookah-smoking Caterpillar, the Duchess with her baby (one that becomes a pig), the Cheshire Cat and a tea party with the Mad Hatter and March Hare. -
Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda kickstarting summer by reading down a stack of books. One I recommend is a 2023 memoir. A commonplace about memoirs is that the better ones tell extraordinary tales of ordinary people. This seems an apt description of Lara Love Hardin, and her memoir, The Many Lives of Mama Love. -
Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda and – believe it or not –it’s time to wrap up this most incredible of Spring Reads, “Water, Water, Neverwhere.”
