Selections from the Season’s Finale – An On-Air Discussion of the 2025 Spring Read – Humor Me!

By Kathleen Holt

Published May 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM CDT

On Sunday, May 4, 2025, book leaders and contributors from the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club came together in Garden City, KS, for a two-hour, live on-air discussion of the novel, a travelogue, a memoir, and a comic blog explored with an impressive array of Radio Reader BookBytes this season. Book Leaders included Charles Forrest Jones (Lawrence KS & Crede CO); Bob Seay (Lamar, CO); Tito Aznar (Goodwell, OK); Julie Sellers (Atchison & the Flint Hills of Kansas); and Matt Kliewer (Austin TX).

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Kathleen Holt

Kathleen Holt has served High Plains Public Radio—in one way or another—since its inception in 1979. She coordinates the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club.

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