Author Archives: OnlyGoodBooks

About OnlyGoodBooks

Creator of The Literacy Cookbook (www.literacycookbook.com), I am an educational consultant who also happens to love to read incessantly. I found myself referring friends to so many books that it seemed like time to create a blog to record all of these recommendations. So here it is.

GRAM & GRAN SAVE THE SUMMER by Stephen Chiger and Daniel Pereira

Posted on April 12, 2024 by OnlyGoodBooks

An early blurb for this amazing children’s book states: “Put together the wordplay of The Phantom Tollbooth, the imagination of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and the problem-solving mysteries of Encyclopedia Brown, make it about media and digital literacy, … Continue reading →

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THE ANXIOUS GENERATION by Jonathan Haidt

Posted on April 5, 2024 by OnlyGoodBooks

They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but Jonathan Haidt’s latest, THE ANXIOUS GENERATION: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, a must-read for parents and educators, brilliantly captures his two … Continue reading →

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THE BURNOUT by Sophie Kinsella

Posted on November 11, 2023 by OnlyGoodBooks

Depending on whom you ask, there are either five stages or twelve stages of burnout. Either way, the final stage is the same: mental and physical meltdown. While it’s not fun or funny to feel empty, exhausted, depressed, etc., somehow—somehow!—Sophie … Continue reading →

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JOURNEY OF SOULS by Michael Newton

Posted on September 23, 2023 by OnlyGoodBooks

Dramatically gusty, rainy days like today give us ample opportunity to burrow under the covers with a good book. If you’re not sure where to turn, try JOURNEY OF SOULS, an eye-opening book by Michael Newton (1931-2016), a hypnotherapist who … Continue reading →

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THE POWER OF EIGHT by Lynne McTaggart

Posted on August 26, 2023 by OnlyGoodBooks

About ten weeks ago, my friends Joe and Perryanne and I launched a grounding group in our community. We announced it, then, at the appointed time, took off our shoes, sat in the local park in beach chairs, and waited … Continue reading →

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SUPERCHARGED SELF-HEALING by RJ Spina

Posted on June 28, 2023 by OnlyGoodBooks

On April 23, 2016, RJ Spina became paralyzed from the chest down and underwent emergency life-saving surgery.  In addition to having a rare staph-infection that compressed his spinal cord, he was also diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, hypothyroidism, and an … Continue reading →

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STORIES THAT STICK by Kindra Hall

Posted on May 27, 2023 by OnlyGoodBooks

Before I read STORIES THAT STICK (subtitled How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business)on a flight to Scotland for an 8-day tour, I thought I knew pretty much everything I needed to about storytelling.  I mean, … Continue reading →

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HELLO BEAUTIFUL by Ann Napolitano

Posted on April 13, 2023 by OnlyGoodBooks

I was curious about HELLO BEAUTIFUL after I read the funny New York Times article about how Oprah Winfrey called the author to let her know she’d loved it.  Ann Napolitano’s reaction was priceless. “While she was reeling from the … Continue reading →

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ATOMIC HABITS by James Clear

Posted on December 23, 2022 by OnlyGoodBooks

            “You do not rise to the level of your goals.  You fall to the level of your systems.”  One morning when I heard Brené Brown quote James Clear from his book ATOMIC HABITS, I thought, That is SO TRUE.  … Continue reading →

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NORA GOES OFF SCRIPT by Annabel Monaghan

Posted on August 12, 2022 by OnlyGoodBooks

As much as I love reading escapist romantic comedies, it isn’t often that they keep me up past 10pm.  I prize my sleep, and besides, rom coms tend to be so formulaic that you know what is going to happen, … Continue reading →

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