Mary Emeny
HPPR Radio Readers Book Club ContributorMary Emeny lives outside of Bushland on a ranch that has been in her family since 1880. She and her late husband were founding members of HPPR in Amarillo, and both have served on the HPPR board. She loves getting into good trouble wherever she can.
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I have long thought that the primary reason we are known for our hospitality in this part of the country is that we are all equal in the wind. In this book I gained a much deeper understanding of why. -
If you are looking for high adventure this book is not for you. But if you are craving a beautifully written, heartwarming alternative to the negativity, noise and drama filling the news Theo of Golden could be a good choice. An elderly gentleman, obviously well off, shows up in the small Carolina town of Golden. We soon find out that he is Portuguese, but learn very little else about him until the end of the book. -
Probably my favorite book of the last 8 months I learned about on this program, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. But in a totally different direction Powers and Thrones by Dan Jones is a close second. Jones calls it A New History of the Middle Ages. And that it is.
