Six Degrees of Separation - Life: A Love Story

Six Degrees of Separation is hosted by Kate at booksaremyfavoriteandbest. A book is selected each month as the starting point for us to link to six other books. I go a bit rouge by selecting my own book from the previous months’ Five Star Friday, but still maintain the spirit of the meme.

This Month's Book

Life: A Love Story by Elizabeth Berg
Published by Random House on March 17, 2026
Age/Genres: Adult, Fiction
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In this warm, intimate novel, a woman celebrates the joy she finds in the ordinary things in life and discovers it’s never too late to start new adventures. By the New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv and Open House

Florence “Flo” Greene is nearing the end of her life, and she decides to leave her house and an account of her life for Ruthie, the younger woman who grew up next door, moved away, and still is like a surrogate daughter. As Flo writes to Ruthie about the meaning of beloved things in her home and about events in her past, she also tries new adventures of her own. She intervenes in the lives of friends in her neighborhood.

Flo's project has been to encourage Teresa, a wise but unconfident woman, to open her heart to romance. Flo goes to the library to get advice from Mimi, a librarian. She encourages Ruthie, who is contemplating divorce, to try again with her husband, by sharing a startling secret long buried about Flo’s own seemingly perfect husband and marriage.

In her final weeks, Flo leaves an indelible mark on others, as this moving novel celebrates life, change, and ways to discover new happiness, friendship, and love.

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Life: A Love Story

This was a wonderful story where Florence, a terminally ill woman, shares the highs and lows of her life with us. 

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

Like Florence, both Lenni and Margot are also terminally ill. The friendship that forms between Lenni and Margot while in a Scottish hospital was lovely. 

Always, in December

In this book, Josie and Max keep crossing paths, and one place they cross paths is in Scotland. 

One-Star Romance

Like Josie and Max, Natalie and Rob seem to keep orbiting each other with their paths crossing over and over again. 

Not That Kind of Proposal

This is an enemies-to-lovers romance just like the previous book. 

Down with Love

In this book and Not That Kind of Proposal, the heroine is a wedding planner and the hero is a divorce lawyer. 

The Hotshot

Both Down with Love and The Hotshot are romances set in Chicago. 

Have you read any of these books?
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