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Becky is Currently Reading

Becky is currently reading

The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen―From WTF to Serial

by Sean Malin (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 09, 2026 06:49PM

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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

by Sangu Mandanna (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: audiobooks, magical-realism, currently-reading

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Mar 09, 2026 06:29AM

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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

by Benjamin Wallace (Goodreads Author)

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Becky’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham

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In many states, day care is now more expensive than a college education.

With 2 girls under the age of 5 in both daycare and part-time preschool this really resonated with me.

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“We'd rather have satisfaction and the maximum titillation than real information, and so history, I insist to my good friend Steve Welch, isn't a cold sequential list of facts, it's a prize anthology of the best fiction.”
― Poe Ballantine, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir

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“Fate is often like a canoe after you've lost your paddles.”
― Poe Ballantine, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir

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“Do you remember where the glory in Beowulf is?" I asked him. "It is out amid peril in strange lands pitted against monsters and the mothers of monsters. It isn't in the warm mead hall with roasted meats and the comfort of jesters and wenches.”
― Poe Ballantine, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir

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“I don’t go to church, but I regularly attend the Museum of Natural History.”
― Mike Birbiglia, The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad

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“Indeed factual stories are so cumbersome, ambiguous, unexciting, and difficult to understand most of the time that they are almost always instantly reconstructed and condensed for better emotional digestion into folktales with foreign villains and blue-eyed saviors.”
― Poe Ballantine, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir

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