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4:00 Credit National Park Service; Photographer: D. Luchsinger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Hi, I’m Valerie a radio reader from Topeka and I’m in the middle of reading Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads by an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn. This book is part of HPPR’s radio readers book club with the theme cultures in common. I’m only on chapter 5 and there is so much to talk about in this book, but one thing that sticks out to me most recently is the author’s new-found love and appreciation of the prairie. As a native Kansan it warms my heart to hear the land described as something as other than flat or fly-over country. So, to read phrases like, “the hypnotic power of the land” and “the billowing, waving prairie grasses were symphonic in their ebbs and swells,” makes me happy (31). ....
4:00 Understanding complicated instructions regarding medications and dosages is only one of the challenges faced by the Lees in our book. Credit Credit: NIAID, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Hi, I’m Valerie a radio reader from Topeka and I’m in the middle of reading The Spirit Catches you and you Fall Down: a Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman. This book is part of HPPRs Radio Readers Book Club this go round with the theme Cultures in a Common Land. Most of this book is about the clash of cultures and outlook towards healing and spirituality. Interestingly, I could totally relate to the Hmong point of view, as opposed to the American doctors. ....
4:00 Valerie, our Radio Readers BookByte contributor questions the Reverend Price’s use of the Bible as “dreaded verse.” Punishment. Credit Leon Brooks, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Hi, I’m Valerie a radio reader from Topeka and I just finished Genesis which is part I of the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. The book is part of HPPR’s radio readers book club this go round with the theme cultures in common. First, a confession: I love Kingsolver. The Prodigal Summer is one of my favorite books. BUT this is my second try reading the Poisonwood Bible and I am NOT a fan. The book is about a missionary family of Baptists that go to the Congo for a year. It’s set in the 1950s and told from the point of view of the 4 daughters and the mother. ....