Elena Nicolaou is a senior entertainment editor at Today.com, where she covers the latest in TV, pop culture, movies and all things streaming. Previously, she covered culture at Refinery29 and Oprah Daily. Her superpower is matching people up with the perfect book, which she does on her podcast, Blind Date With a Book.
Jenna Bush Hager’s February 2025 Read With Jenna book is perfectly in synch with the month’s vibe. “It’s February, which means it’s the month of love, and I have the best, most epic love story for you to fall in love with this month,” Jenna says. “This Is a Love Story” is Jessica Soffer’s second novel, which follows her 2013 debut, “Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots.
In her initial draft, Soffer only wrote about Abe and Jane, starting with them meeting as young artists and throughout her long battle with cancer. “I thought it was going to be this small, very insular novel that was going to sell nowhere, but was going to be hopefully beloved,” she says. Then, she started to feel that the story was “myopic and narrow.” “I started thinking about the ways in which any love story doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
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