Jennifer Kassebaum
HPPR Radio Readers Book Club ContributorJennifer Kassebaum is the owner of Flint Hills Books in Council Grove. She met her husband Bill Kassebaum at KU’s School of Law and while she practiced law at both K-State and WSU, she took early retirement to help with the couple’s cow-calf operation at a ranch near Burdick, population 62. She shares a perspective with Thomas Jefferson who said, “I cannot live without books.” And based on that belief, she established Flinthills Books in the historic bank building in the rural community of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Jennifer invites all Radio Readers to visit the bookstore as well as neighbors Watts Coffee or the Riverbank Brewing Co. And, since nothing is better than a good book and a great cup of coffee, try the co-branded espresso-flavored gourmet chocolate bar produced in Emporia, Kansas. For more information, see www.flinthillsbooks.com.
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Finding a debut novel that is well-written and engaging is like finding a favorite new recipe: I want to tell all my reader friends about this new creation that offers sustenance and joy to life. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley is just such a novel. -
This is Jennifer Kassebaum, owner of Flint Hills Books in Council Grove Kansas, for the High Plains Public Radio Reader’s Summer Book Club Reading List. -
Let’s turn to the book that is the subject of this review: Ann Nepolitano’s Hello Beautiful. I read – or rather devoured – this book shortly after it was released in March of this year due to an ordering error. -
Summer is the season for swimming pools and time at the lake. Regardless of whether you are a water person or not, if you are reader that enjoys an immersive novel – a book in which you can lose yourself- you must add THE COVENANT OF WATER by Abraham Verghese to your summer reading list.
