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Becky's Great Book Reviews The Lifeguards by Amanda Eyre Ward
Show me a parent who doesn't think the sun rises and sets with their child. This is the common thread of The Lifeguards, which is a...
Becky Moe
Dec 19, 20232 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
Reading like true crime, this work of fiction is disturbing, tragic, and gripping. Liz Nugent has managed to create a hugely compelling...
Becky Moe
Dec 13, 20232 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews My Antonia by Willa Cather
Painting a vivid picture of pioneer life in Nebraska, this novel published in 1918 illustrates the female contribution to the formation...
Becky Moe
Dec 5, 20233 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Zero Days by Ruth Ware
Zero Days is classic Ruth Ware: thrilling, quick-reading excitement. Jacintha Cross (Jack) is a security specialist and a penetration...
Becky Moe
Nov 28, 20231 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent
Strange, darkly comic, and tragic are words that come to mind about Little Cruelties . Three brothers are at a funeral and one if them...
Becky Moe
Nov 20, 20232 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews The Good Death of Kate Montclair by Daniel McInerny
Fifty-five-year-old high school teacher Kate Montclair has been diagnosed with brain cancer. With Glioblastoma multi form VI, her doctor...
Becky Moe
Nov 13, 20232 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena
This is Shari Lapena at her finest, weaving a masterful psychological thriller that this reader scarfed down in two days. Everyone Here...
Becky Moe
Nov 5, 20232 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Holly by Stephen King
Holly Gibney is back. The beloved private investigator introduced in the Mr. Mercedes trilogy takes the main character slot in this...
Becky Moe
Nov 2, 20232 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Drowning by T.J. Newman
Someone talented should make this novel into a movie for the big screen. I heard T.J. Newman's other book Falling will be and Drowning...
Becky Moe
Oct 27, 20232 min read


Becky's Great Book Reviews Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Truth is stranger than fiction. Or maybe just more fascinating. Over the course of eight years Lisa Taddeo spent thousands of hours...
Becky Moe
Oct 24, 20232 min read


Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
Two women are working out in a London gym one day and they each inadvertently take the other's lookalike bag. Nisha Cantor is left with...
Becky Moe
Oct 16, 20232 min read


Sparring Partners by John Grisham
Tried and true storyteller John Grisham has produced three novellas in this captivating book. In true Grisham style, all pertain to the...
Becky Moe
Oct 12, 20232 min read


The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
Queenie Hennessy is dying. Lying in hospice with the advanced stages of throat cancer, she writes a letter to her old friend and...
Becky Moe
Oct 3, 20232 min read


Hello, Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
As a newborn, William Water's three-year-old sister dies, casting a shadow over his parents from which they never could escape. William...
Becky Moe
Sep 27, 20232 min read


Maureen by Rachel Joyce
What Maureen's seventy-five-year-old husband Harold loves more than anything these days is sitting on the patio watching the birds. It...
Becky Moe
Sep 18, 20232 min read


The Surrogate by Louise Jensen
This twisty thriller had me guessing all the way through. Just when I thought I had it figured out another curveball was thrown at me. ...
Becky Moe
Sep 13, 20232 min read


The Book of Charlie by David Von Drehle
Born before radio was invented and living to see smart phones, one-hundred-nine-year-old Charlie White knew about adaptation. An early...
Becky Moe
Sep 7, 20233 min read


None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Has there ever been a better title for a novel? And what a novel it is! Run to get this book (Seriously, run)! A story that presents...
Becky Moe
Aug 29, 20232 min read


The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
A famous, respected author offers up an exciting opportunity. Five talented but unknown writers will get chosen for the chance of a...
Becky Moe
Aug 24, 20231 min read


Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
Desegregation of public schools has been passed in 1974 South Boston, and turmoil is unleashed through violent protests and rallies. ...
Becky Moe
Aug 18, 20232 min read
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