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 well-versed in one of my favorite topics: Greek mythology. With this in mind, when I came acr...
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 Willie and containedhistorical evidence about the Civil War and fictional narratives centered around Willie – I was intrigued...
Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated, is the next book that everyone will be talking about – that is, unless they’re already talking about it. The memoir covers the trajectory of Westover’s own story, beginning with her...
I discovered The Last Tudor by the British author, Philippa Gregory (author of The Other Boleyn Girl), in an airport bookstore in Spain. It caught my attention as the most interesting looking book written in English...
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 Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Backman’s characters always convey his seaml...
On a break from reading memoirs, I came across John Grisham’s best-selling Camino Island. Given that Grisham’s novel promised to deal with a daring heist of five original F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts from Princeton University, a charismatic bo...
I started reading Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing by Jennifer Weiner because my mom suggested it. According to her, the book had “something in it for everybody.” At first I was skeptical. How could Ms. Weiner have enough in...
