I heard about this book a few weeks back while reading The Everygirl, a blog I tend to read on a daily basis. The article discusses how the book inspired the writer to immediately download Bumble (a dating app, for anyone not familiar). I did not do that, but you know, to each their own. I did, though, very much enjoy this fun romance novel about Bea, a plus-size fashion blogger who becomes the star of Main Squeeze a reality dating show not unlike The Bachelor. Bea loves her body and has learned to ignore the hateful taunts of…

I ordered this book a month or so after reading a review of it in The New York Times. I finally got around to reading it last week and I’m so glad I did. This debut novel about a pregnant teenager and her growing obsession with one of her regular customers was not at all what I was expecting. Jane is 18, pregnant, and completely ambivalent about it. While her mother and boyfriend are overly excited about their growing family, Jane just can’t bring herself to care. She’s content to continue working as a pizza delivery girl in her…

This is one of the most beautiful books I’ve read this year, possibly ever, actually. This novel, translated from French, about a solitary cemetery caretaker will have you in your feelings more than Drake. Violette Toussaint’s life has not been easy, but over the past twenty years she’s managed to find contentment as the caretaker of the cemetery in Branchion-en-Chalon, a small village in France, where she is visited daily by gravediggers, the local priest, and visitors seeking the location of loved ones’ graves. She keeps herself busy recording the eulogies given at funerals, and in taking care of…