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Becky's Great Book Reviews Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Oozing with charm, this snapshot of young Manhattanites in 1938 paints a colorful picture of life at the tail end of the Depression and...
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May 15, 20243 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Listen for the Lie by Amy Tinterra
Savannah Harper is found murdered in the Texas woods after a local wedding. Lucy Chase is picked up taking an early morning stroll with...
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May 7, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews The Push by Ashley Audrain
This novel by Ashley Audrain is disturbing, troubling, and absolutely unputdownable! The Push, like Audrain's The Whispers, explores the...
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Apr 29, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Skin Deep by Liz Nugent
I can't remember ever having such an intense dislike for a character - that's what makes this novel so compelling. Liz Nugent must...
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Apr 20, 20243 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
This thorough and comprehensive account by Kate Moore of the watch dial painters of the early 1900's is nothing short of harrowing. The...
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Apr 16, 20244 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Kit McDeere needs a job. Living at home at age thirty-two with her dad, the silence following the death of her mother is getting to her....
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Apr 9, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon
Linda Hammett has a very firm moral code when it comes to rules and regulations. She has somewhat of a reputation of being a busybody...
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Apr 5, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
What fun to be dragged out of my comfort zone (by my son!) and into the folds of science fiction! Chasm City was part of a keep-giving...
Becky Moe
Mar 26, 20243 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Demons, ghostly queens, realms of the Otherworld, and symbols that hold a special kind of power: these are just a few of the components...
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Mar 6, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews The Whispers by Ashley Audrain
A neighborhood of young families. A terrible accident. Secrets that each person wants to keep safe for their own versions of...
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Feb 27, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
A man doesn't come home from the park. The sixty hours that follow chronicle the events of the Parkson family as they painstakingly try...
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Feb 22, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
As Paul Murray writes in The Bee Sting, twelve-year-old PJ Barnes realizes that the last few years have been a slow, methodical undoing...
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Feb 15, 20243 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
The Stockton family is uber wealthy and theirs is Old Money. Their private school auctions off eight-thousand-dollar teddy bears; yacht...
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Feb 7, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
This family drama about connection, parenthood, grief and love simply shines. Dual timelines track the Sorensons from their very...
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Feb 2, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
Maya is coming down from an addiction to Klonopin, which she is hiding from her live-in boyfriend, Dan. It was prescribed to her when...
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Jan 24, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Alaska, dubbed the Great Alone by poet Robert Service, is a place people might come to for one of two reasons: They're either running to...
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Jan 17, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Who Is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews
Who Is Maud Dixon?" 's protagonist Florence Darrow has disdain for "fireside happiness". In other words, she values glory over comfort. ...
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Jan 9, 20242 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews The Fifth Vital by Mike Majlak with Riley J. Ford
The opioid epidemic in this country is no secret. However, to hear a play-by-play personal account of Mike Majlak's descent into...
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Jan 3, 20243 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Listen To The Marriage by John Jay Osborn
Sandy is not your average marriage counselor. She does not strive to be neutral. She does things that are unorthodox, like encourage...
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Dec 27, 20232 min read


Four Souls by Louise Erdrich
Published nearly twenty years ago but just discovered in my eighty-three-year-old mom's stash of books, I was assured by her that I would...
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Dec 23, 20232 min read
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