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Welcome to HPPR Book Bytes. I’m Bob Seay. This is the first of three commentaries I’ll be doing about “Running with Sherman: How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America” by Christopher McDougall. The title says it all, or at least as much as you can say in twenty words and still have room to mention the author’s previous best-selling book on the cover.

This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Running With Sherman” by Christopher McDougall.Sherman is a delight from page one, or page 40 or page anything, anywhere you land, whether you read from start to end or in spurts or you skim. If you love animals at all, Christopher McDougall’s always slightly bemused prose will endear you to the smart, funny, cantankerous Sherman.

Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas. I’ve been sitting with the words and imagery of Ada Limon, a poet who calls both Sonoma, California and Lexington, Kentucky home. The Hurting Kind is her 6th collection of poetry over 20 years.

This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Running With Sherman” by Christopher McDougall.Digit, another of our rescues, was a three-legged dog. Medium height, two front legs and one back leg. Wayside Waifs thought she had been run over and tried to put her broken back leg together but eventually had to amputate it. Still, for the most part, you would think she barely noticed, although going upstairs was tougher with only one rear leg to push her upward.

So, Constant Listeners, picture this: An endless landscape, flat and unbroken, stretching unadorned and undifferentiated to a far-away horizon. The ground is brown, dusty and lifeless; the sky is blue and cloudless. The hope for rain nowhere found, felt or sensed. Now imagine this landscape is in Texas. I know; it's hard to believe.

I’m Mark Davies for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club’s 2024 Spring Read.Published in 2012, The Water Thief, by Nicholas Lamar Soutter is a novel about a dystopian near-future ...

I’m Jarrett Kaufman for HPPR.This is the third of four reviews on Nicholas Lamar Soutter’s dystopian novel, The Water Thief.

I’m Jarrett Kaufman for HPPR.This the second of four reviews on Nicholas Lamar Soutter’s 2012 award-winning novel, The Water Thief.

I'm Hannes Zacharias, a native Kansan who grew up in Dodge City, speaking for High Plains Public Radio’s Radio Readers Book Club. The book is The Water Thief” by Nicholas Lamar Soutter.

Hello, Radio Readers! Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, here to reflect on Anne Carson’s Plainwater, an eclectic collection of essays and poetry – and just in time for April, National Poetry Month.