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Linda Allen

Linda Allen

HPPR Radio Readers Book Club Contributor

Linda Allen, transplanted from eastern Oregon to the Texas Panhandle is a devoted dachshund mom, a retired psychotherapist and an Advanced Teacher of Therapeutic Yoga. Between dog walks and hikes at Palo Duro Canyon Linda enjoys reading, traveling and volunteering.

  • The Women by Kristin Hannah
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    Remembering the Women
    Linda Allen
    This is Linda Allen for HPPR Radio Readers recommending a summer book you won’t regret adding to your stack. Kristin Hannah is a popular author whose novels include “The Four Winds” and “The Nightingale.” As she explains in her author’s note, her recent release “The Women” is a book she had been wanting to write for many years.
  • Fern was a volatile, unpredictable force who had what was then known as a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized for depression. Women on the plains in the dirty 30s were tested to their limits and such occurrences happened in many families. This depiction of the Women’s Corridor in what was called an insane asylum in the 1930s reminds readers of the slow progress made in the mental health field.
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    Changes In Mental Health Treatment Slow To Come
    Linda Allen
    This is Linda Allen in Amarillo, Tx reading and writing about Lucas Bessire’s 2021 book “Running Out - In Search of Water on the High Plains”. Bessire’s treatise on the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer was a finalist for the National Book Award and named Book of the Year in 2022 by the Center for the Study of the American West at West Texas A & M University.
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    More Than I Expected
    Linda Allen
    When I saw the selections for the Radio Readers Fall read I was so intrigued by the idea of donkey racing that I read the last book first! “Running with Sherman” by Christopher McDougall just sounded like a book I’d enjoy and its 340 pages didn’t disappoint.
  • Although robins are among the most abundant species in North America, the Chatham Island Black Robin and the Norfolk Island Robin are distinctly endangered.
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    What it Means to be Human
    Linda Allen
    Richard Powers has given readers another forceful novel titled Bewilderment. Written during the height of the Covid pandemic and published in 2021, this book joins the pantheon of art produced during the lockdown, stay home early years of the virus that changed the world.
  • Mother of Earth
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    Mother Earth Nurturing Children
    Linda Allen
    Robin Wall Kimmerer has given readers gift after gift in her 2013 book “Braiding Sweetgrass”. I first read it in 2016 after reading a review by a staff member of an outdoor gear company. I’ve gone on to recommend it many times in the years since and have enjoyed every word the second time through.
  • Wandering Falcon
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    Before the U.S. Involvement
    Linda Allen
    This is Linda Allen in Amarillo. For my latest contribution to the Radio Readers book discussion I read "The Wandering Falcon" by Jamil Ahmad. Written in the early 1970s, he book was finally published in 2011 by which time the author was 79 years old.