Mikaela's Musings

When I read Madeline Miller’s first book, The Song of Achilles, a few years ago, I realized I had discovered a skilled writer who was...

From the little my manager relayed about George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo –that it was a book about the death of Lincoln’s son...

Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated, is the next book that everyone will be talking about – that is, unless they’re already talking about...

I discovered The Last Tudor by the British author, Philippa Gregory (author of The Other Boleyn Girl), in an airport bookstore in Spain. ...

I’ve grown to love Fredrik Backman’s books. Whether it’s the jaded Ove in A Man Called Ove or the creative and grammar-savvy Elsa in My...

On a break from reading memoirs, I came across John Grisham’s best-selling Camino Island. Given that Grisham’s novel promised to deal...

Smile and sing in the morning; Enjoy now; You’re happy if you think you are; Be you. I picked up The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin...

I started reading Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing by Jennifer Weiner because my mom suggested it. According to her,...

1) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 2) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 3) The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James...

1) A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (see also My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry) 2) All the Light We Cannot See by...