2025 Summer Read

I’m Julie A. Sellers for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club, and today, I’m reviewing The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. This epistolary novel relates the story of seventy-three-year-old Sybil Van Antwerp through letters, notes, and emails that she sends and receives to and from a variety of people

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. 


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.

I'd like to nominate The Southern Book Club's Guide to Vampire Slaying by Grady Hendrix for HPPR's Bookbytes. I belong to a bookclub in Stanton County KS where life is slow enough that I look forward to our monthly meetings. Three years ago I was searching for a good book to read.

Hello, I’m Dennis Garcia, and I wrote the book, Las Madres. It is a saga of the Padilla-Rodriguez family history in Mexico, the U.S., and southwest Kansas, from 1865 to the present. Last Fall, High Plains Public Radio previewed the story of Las Madres through the eyes of the main characters, Candelaria, born in Mexico in 1865, her daughter, Rafaela, born in El Paso, Texas in 1906, and Rafaela’s daughter, Irene, born in Dodge City, Kansas in 1920.

Well, that was a first. I just finished reading a notorious classic that was signed and handed to me by someone that’s featured within its pages. (Seriously.) This is Jenny Inzerillo for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club, sharing my submission for the Summer Reading List.

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.

This is Jennifer Kassebaum, owner of Flint Hills Books in Council Grove Kansas, for High Plains Public Radio Reader’s Summer Book Club Reading List. Recently I had the privilege of hosting a book launch for poet Tim Keane for his recent poetry collection titled A GATHERING OF KESTRELS.

Hi, I’m Marjory Hall from Goodwell, Oklahoma with a Summer BookByte! Sometimes life gives us unexpected bonuses, like when you find a $20 bill forgotten in a pocket or when your favorite store has a buy one/get one special. For me, Olivia Hawker’s novel The Stars and Their Light was just that sort of happy surprise.

Bon jour, Radio Readers. I’m Julie A. Sellers for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club.The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods combines magical realism with a cozy mystery in a novel that explores themes of grief, regret, progress, community, and love.