Category Archives: Fiction

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 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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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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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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LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus

Posted on July 9, 2022 by OnlyGoodBooks

In November of 1964, my mother, a home economics teacher in New Jersey, informed her principal that she was expecting a child (me) in May.  She wanted to provide enough notice so he could hire someone to take her place … Continue reading →

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PARADISE GIRLS by Sandy Gingras

Posted on June 26, 2022 by OnlyGoodBooks

Every once in a while, you are lucky enough to read a book that makes you feel grateful that it was written. The publishing industry being what it is, this remarkable novel by Sandy Gingras (full disclosure: a dear friend) … Continue reading →

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BOOK LOVERS by Emily Henry

Posted on May 15, 2022 by OnlyGoodBooks

One thing I love about books is that they provide a guaranteed avenue for escape when day-to-day life feels too pressing.  Some people go for mysteries and the allure of getting lost in a detective’s life.  I’m more of a … Continue reading →

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ROSALINE PALMER TAKES THE CAKE by Alexis Hall

Posted on November 21, 2021 by OnlyGoodBooks

With the exceptions of my mother’s strawberry shortcake and Carvel’s ice cream cake, I am not much of a cake fan, so the idea of watching people bake cakes on TV has never appealed to me despite some friends’ exhortations … Continue reading →

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THIS TIME NEXT YEAR by Sophie Cousens

Posted on November 1, 2021 by OnlyGoodBooks

As someone who is mildly curious (OK, obsessed) with how people meet and fall in love, I know we all have our Sliding Door moments—when we either make the train or we don’t, and everything changes.  THIS TIME NEXT YEAR, … Continue reading →

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THE HEART’S INVISIBLE FURIES by John Boyne

Posted on March 7, 2021 by OnlyGoodBooks

John Boyne throws us headlong into this novel with one of my favorite first sentences ever: Long before we discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in Drimoleague and one in Clonakilty, Father James Monroe … Continue reading →

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