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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.

  • Independent journalist James Foley during a speech at San Diego State University in 2012
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    It Touches Your Soul
    Shane Timson
    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.
  • Not a book for this contributor
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    Not a Book for Me
    Shane Timson
    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.
  • Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
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    On Blade Runner by Phillip K. Dick
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Readers Club, I'm Shane Timpson in Colby, Kansas.Today, we're talking about the book Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick. Now, the original title is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. 

  • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Allan Watts
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    On The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Allan Watts
    Shane Timson
    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.
  • May Day over Kansas: The Worst Military Aviation Disaster in Kansas History by D.W. Carter
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    On May Day over Kansas
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timson and Colby, Kansas. Today we're talking about the book May Day over Kansas: The Worst Military Aviation Disaster in Kansas History written by D.W. Carter. This book is phenomenal.
  • Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster
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    On Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Polar Radio Readers Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas.Today, I'm talking about the book Dust Bowl, The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster. This book is a fascinating read because I have studied this topic probably more than any other since moving to Kansas in 1986. 

  • Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
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    On Civil Disobedience
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas.Today we are going to discuss Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience. I chose this interesting book because we live in a world today where we disagree with the government and what it does; people take to the streets and protest, but they get violent.
  • Walter Cronkite, once considered America’s most trusted journalist
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    On Hindershot’s When the News Broke
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas.I'm talking about the book When the News Broke by Heather Hindershot. This book talks about the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
  • 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.