Likely Stories
Thursday 7:45am and 4:45pm. Saturday 8:35am. Sunday 9:35am
So many books, so little time! Jim McKeown hosts this weekly review of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and biographies. Jim is a lifelong voracious reader who learned to read by the “rule of 50" - if he’s not engaged in the characters, the prose, or the plot by page 50, he puts in a book mark and returns it to the shelf. Likely Stories is a production of KWBU in Waco, Texas.
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I wanted to bring a backlist selection that I only recently discovered. That is The Long And Faraway Gone by Lou Berney. -
This week, avid reader and daughter in law of Jim McKeown, Ashley McKeown, brings to her Likely Stories debut, Lionel Shriver's 2003 novel 'We Need to Talk about Kevin."
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A nonfiction deep dive into one of America's most intriguing cities is the book I am bringing to you today. That is The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Missisippi by Richard Grant.
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Today I am recommending my favorite book of last year, Love and Saffron by Kim Fay. I describe is as if Ruth Reichl, food writer for the NYT, and Laurie Colwin, my favorite food memoir writer wrote Eighty Four Charing Cross and I loved everything about it
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“The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson was at the top of my summer reading list this year.Wilson won the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for this novel, which is her first fiction work. Her previous, non-fiction writings have also received numerous awards.
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A book that is a brand new August release and taking the publishing world by storm is Shark Heart by Emily Habeck. This debut has perhaps one of the strangest premises I will ever bring to Likely Stories.
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A story of jealousy and greed, Yellowface takes the reader many places. It is also a story of a scathing look at the publishing industry.
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There are a few books that I hand sell like crazy at Fabled and one that I am known to adore is “the donkey book”. Yes, the donkey book is Running With Sherman: How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-Tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America by Christopher MacDougall.
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If there's one thing that I learned from AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies, it's that I never want to play cards with the author, Derek Delgaudio.
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I want to highlight an under the radar gem that is a contender for my favorite book of 2023. That is the debut novel Go As A River by Shelley Read. Read is fifth generation Coloradoan and her love of the land shines through in this gorgeous novel.
