Book Recommendations Archives - Karen Keltz https://karenkeltz.com/category/book-recommendations/ Writing, gardening, and commentary about life in general Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:07:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 182946241 Fall reads https://karenkeltz.com/fall-reads/ https://karenkeltz.com/fall-reads/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:07:12 +0000 https://karenkeltz.com/?p=684 I have three books to share with you this time around. The first is Autobiography of a Sea Creature: Healing the Trauma of Infant Surgery by Wendy Patrice Williams. I learned about this book after meeting its author and talking over lunch.. I was shocked by what she told me. Before the 1980’s, infants up to three… Read More »Fall reads

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]]> https://karenkeltz.com/fall-reads/feed/ 2 684 go straight to the bookstore and buy these books! https://karenkeltz.com/beautiful-writing-great-reading/ https://karenkeltz.com/beautiful-writing-great-reading/#comments Mon, 26 May 2025 22:08:27 +0000 https://karenkeltz.com/?p=653 Or go straight to the library and check them out! Or… This month I’ve read two books that are among the best books I’ve ever read and I’m full of gratitude. Both of them were a story within a story, both written by two of my favorite authors, Matt Haig and Fredrick Backman. They touch… Read More »go straight to the bookstore and buy these books!

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]]> https://karenkeltz.com/beautiful-writing-great-reading/feed/ 3 653 After the parables https://karenkeltz.com/after-the-parables/ https://karenkeltz.com/after-the-parables/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:06:46 +0000 https://karenkeltz.com/?p=650 When I finished reading The Parable of the Talents, I saw that I had turned down the corners of four pages. I’ve been taught that’s a very naughty thing to do to a book, but since it’s my own, I did it anyway. I remember as a college student, using used texts to save money,… Read More »After the parables

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]]> https://karenkeltz.com/after-the-parables/feed/ 1 650 The parable of the sower and the parable of the talents https://karenkeltz.com/the-parable-of-the-sower-and-the-parable-of-the-talents/ https://karenkeltz.com/the-parable-of-the-sower-and-the-parable-of-the-talents/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2025 18:21:31 +0000 https://karenkeltz.com/?p=645 I am just finishing up the second in a series of science fiction novels by Octavia L. Butler, so amazing because reading them felt like being plunked down in the middle of, oh, maybe next year or the year after, if things keep going the way they are. Because of that, they are terrifying. The Parable… Read More »The parable of the sower and the parable of the talents

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]]> https://karenkeltz.com/the-parable-of-the-sower-and-the-parable-of-the-talents/feed/ 4 645 The faculty lounge https://karenkeltz.com/the-faculty-lounge/ https://karenkeltz.com/the-faculty-lounge/#comments Sun, 18 Aug 2024 02:47:34 +0000 https://karenkeltz.com/?p=610 I have just read the first ever novel that portrayed the lives of high school teachers exactly as it truly is, with thoughts of characters that are accurate, and certain events that are uncannily the same as they were when I was teaching in my career, spanning 33 years. The title is The Faculty Lounge,… Read More »The faculty lounge

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