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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.

  • 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.
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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.