Category: Books

Hi, all. Question for you: What are your favorite self-help books (broadly defined)? Books on personal growth, spirituality, pop psychology, mental health…I’d love to hear!!  

Have you ever read Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne? I’ve only ever read the beginning and end (ha!) but know the general idea. In 1872, Phileas Fogg of London bets his fortune on a wager that he can travel around the world in 80 days

I’m determined to make the most of my Kindle and I want to always have a good book downloaded and ready to go. Here are a dozen books I’d like to read in 2025.

Several years ago, I read The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller. This book is about how to create a culture of reading in an elementary school classroom. The signature of this program is the 40 Book Challenge. Each student is challenged to read forty books on their own over the course of the school year. They are not graded on …

I wrote a summer reading list which I will probably not end up following (keeping it real here) but wanted to share anyway.

On Shabbos as I powered through a sweet middle-grade novel, I realized that I can basically divide my reading habits into weekday and Shabbos reading. Weekday reading is mostly non-fiction of the self-help variety, the kind that I skim, or dip into, think about, write about, sometimes blog about…while Shabbos reading is all about good stories that engage me for …

A favorite picture book of mine is The Empty Pot by Demi. I won’t spoil it if you’d like to read it, but I like to think it is a story about how sometimes you can do everything right and still not get the outcome that you wanted, and there is a bigger reason for that. You can find video …

Sometimes I’m asked how I find books to read and how I always have a pile of books checked out of the library. The truth is I am always on the lookout for interesting books. I get recommendations from various blogs, from Goodreads, and sometimes from other people. I have definitely found that the more I read, the better feel …