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Shane Timmons

Shane Timson

HPPR Radio Readers Book Club Contributor

Hi! I’m Shane Timson . I have been in radio since 1998. I work for NWKS Radio in Colby Kansas as well as KGCR local radio. You could say it’s very much my passion. When I’m not doing radio shows, I love to spend time with my wife and my two cats just enjoying life. I am really looking forward to being part of the Radio Readers Book Club and sharing my comments on the books we read in each season.

  • Cupola of the Hall of the Ancestors
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    Funny and a Message
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Readers Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we are talking about What’s so Funny – A Cartoonist’s Memoir by David Sipress. You know, I’d never heard of David Sipress before this book and at first, I had a problem.
  • The first Pizza Hut building at Wichita State University Campus, Kansas. It was opened at the corner of Kellogg and Bluff on June 15, 1958, by brothers Frank and Dan Carney.
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    Across Small Town America
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we are talking about The Lost Continent: Travels Around Small Town America by Bill Bryson. I love this book.
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    Too Wordy for Me
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Readers Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we’re talking about The Wordy Shipmates from Sarah Vowell and I must say, this was a very wordy book.
  • The Golden Rule, Sunday School song, 1865
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    Change of Heart
    Shane Timson
  • Lesson from the Blue Book by Shane Timson, Isolation and Community
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    Lesson from the Blue Book
    Shane Timson
    For the High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we are talking about the Blue Book of Nebo written by Mannon Stephan Ross. This book was originally written in the Welsh language and was recently translated into English.
  • Mr. Sheep-Sheep was left.
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    Stories With Impact
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, KansasToday we’re talking about the book Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri. This is his story of what it was like coming from Iran to the United States.
  • The Caterpillar, one of Tenniel's illustrations from the first edition is noted for its ambiguous figure, whose head may have a human male's face with pointed nose and protruding lower lip or it could be a caterpillar.
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    A Second Time Through
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I am Shane Timson from Colby, Kansas. We’ve all heard the phrase “down the rabbit hole” or maybe you’ve said, “I went down the rabbit hole.” The other day I was online looking up things and pretty soon I was looking up things that had nothing to do with anything else. What was supposed to be 10 or 15 minutes turned out to be a whole afternoon.
  • The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland
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    Country of the Blind - A Gradual Loss of Vision
    Shane Timson
    I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. The book that I chose to read for our summer reading is The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland. This is his story from sight to blindness – and what he learned along the way.
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    Giving Away Freedom
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson from Colby, Kansas.I remember when I was a kid in the 1980s the first time I saw water being sold in a convenience store.
  • Water Drop
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    More Questions Than Answers
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Radio Readers Book Club I’m Shane from Colby, Kansas.We are discussing Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains. This is not a good thing to think about -- running out of water...