Louisa Smith - www.epicbooksociety.com

The collection is divided into four sections, with each section telling a different story about Kaur’s life, taking the reader on a journey through her life's most bitter moments, from suffering abuse and violence to the sweet moments of overcoming them, falling in love and embracing her femininity. 

I truly adored reading this collection because of Kaur’s outlook on life that is evident throughout her poetry. You can see that though she suffered bad times, she tries to look at the silver lining.

Rupi Kaur is one of the most inspiring and iconic poets of the 21st Century. Milk and Honey sold over 3 million copies worldwide and featured on the New York Times Bestseller list for 165 weeks.

Leslie Conzatti www.upstreamwriter.blogspot.com

There is one book in particular that happens to fit this criteria, though, and it’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg. It tells the story of a middle-aged woman in a crisis who visits an elderly woman in a nursing home, and hears the tale of Ruth and Idgie, two childhood best friends who weave in and out of each other’s lives, brave through small-town scandals (and even a murder or two!) and end up running the eponymous Whistlestop Cafe together. It’s a delightful framing tale, and readers will have plenty of characters to relate themselves to, and entertaining situations, between Ruth and Idgie’s high-jinks in the early 1900’s, to the things Mrs. Threadgoode’s attitude inspires the younger Evelyn to do–not the least of which is the “awakening” of Towanda–not to be missed! I wasn’t altogether craving fried green tomatoes by the end of it, but it did give me a good laugh or several!

Becki - A Book Lover’s Adventures abookloversadventures.com

The Chocolatier by Jan Moran

A young widow. A husband she thought she knew. On the picturesque Italian coast of Amalfi lies a chocolatier's destiny...

San Francisco, 1953: Heartbroken over the mysterious death of her husband, Celina Savoia, a second-generation chocolatière, resolves to take their young son to Italy's shimmering Amalfi coast to introduce him to his father's family. Just as she embarks on a magical, romantic life of making chocolate by the sea surrounded by a loving family, she begins to suspect that her husband had a dark secret--forged in the final days of WWII--that could destroy the relationships she's come to cherish.

While a second chance at love is tempting, the mystery of her husband's true identity thwarts her efforts. Challenged to pursue the truth or lose the life and those she's come to love, Celina and her late husband's brother, Lauro, must trace the past to a remote, Peruvian cocoa region to face the deceit that threatens to shatter their lives.

This book had all the feels and lots of chocolate throughout the story! So be forewarned, you will be buying chocolate before you’re done reading it.

Valerie - Cats Luv Coffee www.catsluvcoffee.com

Here’s the blurb: 

Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people—the source of some of our most revealing questions about death—Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind. 

Kriti @ Armed with A Book

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