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.
Latest Episodes
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The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel, is a true story about a young couple who stole $2 billion worth of art - that's with a B- for more than seven years across Europe, totaling a treasure of more than 300 pieces. -
"Under the Whispering Door" is a book I had been eyeing for months because of its intriguing cover. It is written by TJ Klune, the same author who wrote "The House in the Cerulean Sea.” -
War is hell. And what comes after war, when soldiers return home, is often its own version of torment, one that takes exceptional patience and grace from everyone--those who love the soldiers as well as the soldiers themselves. -
I’m Joe Riley with KWBU. I’ve loved Likely Stories from the beginning, and always looked forward to hearing Jim McKeown’s recommendations. Now I’m grateful for the privilege of sharing one of my recent reads. -
KC Davis is a counselor and speaker who lives in Houston. In her book, How to Keep House While Drowning, Davis outlines practical and compassionate instructions on how to keep life running when you feel like you are flailing. -
For someone who's been the subject of more than a dozen books, there's not a whole not that's definitely known about the blues musician Robert Johnson. -
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You may not think that an Episcopal priest is the most likely candidate to review a book on theoretical physics by someone who describes himself as "serenely atheist," but Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time, which I just read for the first time this year, has quickly become one of my favorites. -
Earlier this year I read Anthony Doerr's novel All the Light We Cannot See. I had a copy of it for years and now, I wish I had read it sooner. -
I wanted to bring a backlist selection that I only recently discovered. That is The Long And Faraway Gone by Lou Berney.
