Shane Timson
HPPR Radio Readers Book Club ContributorHi! 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.
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At the time of this recording, it is July. It's hot - 100-degree temperatures, severe weather. But this time of July, we now start thinking about August in the fall sports season. It won't be long, and kids will be at the football field practicing, and they'll be on the volleyball court. It's going to be in full session. -
For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we're talking about the book Heaven's Gate by Benjamin E. Zeller. This book is about the religious cult that committed mass suicide as they were trying to get a ride on the Hale-Bopp Comet back in 1997. -
For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timpson in Colby, Kansas. Today I'm talking about the book Can't Catch Me, I'm the Gingerbread Man by Jamie Gilson, published in 1981. -
For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we're talking about the book The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts. This book was written back in 1951, but it might as well have been written today because the things he talks about, well, it's exactly what we're dealing with here. -
For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today, I am discussing the book I Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like, the Life and Writings of Will Rogers. Now before reading this book, I didn’t know anything about Will Rogers except for that quote, “I never a man I didn’t like,” so I was very curious to read this book and to see how he came up with that conclusion. -
This book is a great road trip! If you want to go down Route 66 and not leave your house, then this is the book.The author who is an immigrant and has lived in the United States for a number of years and has been a citizen now for at least four years first learned about Route 66 after reading The Grapes of Wrath. -
For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we are going to discuss the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I want to talk about the beginning and the end of the book before we get into the middle because the way Steinbeck frames it is just brilliant. -
For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson from Colby, Kansas. Today I’m talking about the book Late Migrations: A Brief History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl. No doubt this fall reading season has been very difficult as we have dealt with grief in different ways. -
For High Plains Public Radio, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we are talking about the book American Mother. This is written by Colum McCann and Diane Foley. This is the true story of the tragic beheading of James Foley who was a freelance journalist. I liked this book. -
For High Plains Public Radio’s Readers Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we’re talking about the book Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. This book was Saunders’ first book, and it was a New York Times bestseller.
