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Hello! I’m Cheryl Dunn in Lincoln, NE for HPPR’s Radio Readers Fall Book Club. As someone who has the joyous job of teaching young adult plants, the book Braiding Sweetgrass really spoke to that connection to the plant world that I try to give my students.

Hello. My name is Cheryl Berzanskis and I’m from Amarillo.When I woke up this morning, I saw and enjoyed what almost eight billion other people had seen or would see today — a sunrise.The sun’s daily journey is a universality of life on Earth and at each end of the great orb’s arc across the sky we have symbols to attend it.

I’m Shelley Armitage from Vega, Texas sharing Radio Readers Book Bytes with you today. I’ve been thinking lately about how poetry can be like a prayer. Inspired by a piece by Richard Osler, I like how he describes the poem as coming from a mysterious other inside him, that the poem writes us not the other way around.

Some of us don't have the mobility we used to; it can be a little bit harder to get up off your knees after a round of weeding every year. But for many folks, physical limitations can entirely prevent them from getting the physical and mental benefits of gardening. Adaptive gardening helps folks find ways to continue to enjoy nature and the outdoors and continue to reap those benefits!

I’m Kathleen Holt, Coordinator of the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. The following Radio Readers BookByte is a repeat of one originally aired in 2017 and is offered in memory of its author Thomas F. Pecore (Pay-corE) Weso who died July 14, 2023, in Healdsburg, California.

There are a lot of books whose writing draws me in but few whose writing grabs me into the flowing poetry of its prose from the first syllable. For that matter, few prose books are so poetic that you can't really separate the emotional pull of poetry from the expository nature of prose.

Richard Powers has given readers another forceful novel titled Bewilderment. Written during the height of the Covid pandemic and published in 2021, this book joins the pantheon of art produced during the lockdown, stay home early years of the virus that changed the world.

This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Bewilderment” by Richard Powers. When we come into our narrator's story, he is a widower with his autistic, talented, brilliant, highly active, nine-year old son. They are on a trip to find a dark sky to look at the stars through their telescope.

Raylene Hinz-Penner here, retired English professor now living in North Newton, KS and talking about Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero by Christopher McDougall, former foreign correspondent, writer of the bestseller, Born to Run, collector of great human stories.

I’m Bob Seay and this is another HPPR Radio Readers Book Byte. I’ve been reading Bewilderment, a novel by Richard Powers. On its surface, Bewilderment is a father-son story set in a framework of science fiction. But, like all good science fiction, it is the human themes that make the story work.