Category Archives: Relationships

THE ART OF POSSIBILITY by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

Posted on December 28, 2019 by OnlyGoodBooks

Something about the approach of a New Year always makes me think about where I’ve been, where I am, and where I’m going. This week I found myself in Moe’s Books, a gigantic bookstore in Berkeley, CA, and put my … Continue reading →

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MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE by Lori Gottlieb

Posted on May 5, 2019 by OnlyGoodBooks

If you’ve ever been in therapy—and let’s face it, who hasn’t? (but, PS, if you haven’t, you probably should)—you know what it’s like to need someone to talk to when you’re in crisis, and you know that while therapy helps, … Continue reading →

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US by David Nicholls

Posted on July 1, 2017 by OnlyGoodBooks

The novel US is based on what movie directors call a “high-concept” premise: shortly before a husband and wife take their son on a multi-week European vacation, the wife informs her husband that she thinks she wants to leave him. … Continue reading →

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LOVE WARRIOR by Glennon Doyle Melton

Posted on April 9, 2017 by OnlyGoodBooks

The first thing you need to know is that I read this book, which is 272 pages long, in one sitting. That should tell you something. LOVE WARRIOR, Glennon Doyle Melton’s memoir, is ostensibly about what she did after she … Continue reading →

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YOU’LL GROW OUT OF IT by Jessi Klein

Posted on August 12, 2016 by OnlyGoodBooks

My friend Anne had trouble reading this book. Not intellectually, but logistically. She had to keep taking off her glasses and wiping her eyes because she couldn’t stop laughing so hard that it made her weep. Jessi Klein is a … Continue reading →

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NO ONE UNDERSTANDS YOU AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT by Heidi Grant Halvorson

Posted on July 16, 2015 by OnlyGoodBooks

I don’t have any children (yet), but I have thousands of former students, which is the next best thing because the chances they will do something that makes me proud are greatly multiplied. To clarify: I take zero credit for … Continue reading →

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HOW TO START A FIRE by Lisa Lutz

Posted on June 6, 2015 by OnlyGoodBooks

Regular readers of this blog know I am a HUGE fan of Lisa Lutz, the author of the Spellman File series and Heads You Lose (with David Hayward). So it should come as no surprise that she has once again … Continue reading →

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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK by Piper Kerman

Posted on March 2, 2015 by OnlyGoodBooks

When I finally picked up ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (originally published in 2010), I did not know what to expect. The buzz around the Netflix series, which I have not yet viewed, seems to suggest high drama, machinations, and … Continue reading →

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EUPHORIA by Lily King

Posted on December 28, 2014 by OnlyGoodBooks

Most works of fiction include a disclaimer about how any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental blahblahblah, but in the case of EUPHORIA, Lily King omits that stock epithet because in fact her novel is based on … Continue reading →

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BARK by Lorrie Moore

Posted on December 23, 2014 by OnlyGoodBooks

As any true short story junkie knows, you cannot go wrong with Lorrie Moore. Beginning with her first collection, SELF-HELP (published in 1985), she established herself as a deft musician with words, and she has rarely hit a wrong note. … Continue reading →

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