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Fran’s 2025 Year in Books
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Thank you so much, Ariane. I love reading because books make me think, so I guess I want to do something with those thoughts!
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Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
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2012
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5 editions
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Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat
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2005
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12 editions
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I Meant to Tell You
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2022
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Her Daughter
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The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical Giant
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2003
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7 editions
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The Heirs
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2018
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2 editions
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The Overloaded Liberal: Shopping, Investing, Parenting,and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism
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2010
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Pension Dumping: The Reasons, the Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street
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2008
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A Brief History of American Pensions-The Origins of U.S. Retirement Plans
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2013
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Investing Online
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2000
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Review from "The Rose City Reader"
I MEANT TO TELL YOU "would be a terrific book club pick" --
Thanks, Rose City Reader!
Thanks, Rose City Reader!
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In fact, I think the movie was much better than the book-- in part thanks to Jessie Buckley's great talent. One example: The movie was able to portray
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"I had high expectations for this book. Some have called it historical fiction. However, it’s much more fiction than historical as no one knows much about Shakespeare’s life, so the author put her own spin on it. Some things were clever… how the plagu"
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Fran Hawthorne
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Sandysbookaday (on indefinite hiatus)’s review
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The General Hospital (Menzies Mental Health #3)
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I always appreciate your detailed reviews and the way you organize each section
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That sounds like an interesting mix of characters. Plus an unusual setting. Thanks for letting me know about the book, KAren
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"This author’s, “ If the Creek Don’t Rise” was a five star read for me set in 1970’s and a couple of the characters have continued on in this novel.
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I appreciate that you gave the novel time to "find its rhythm." (How refreshing to read about a ship other than the Titanic!)
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"'Don’t wait for the dream to become a reality. Take the reality and make it your dream.'
Marguerite Jolivet was born into privilege at the end of the 19th century, moving among society’s elite—yet all she wanted was to be on stage. Unconventionally, h" Read more of this review » |
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You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson's Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her
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Thanks, Kimberly. Of course, this book's author really gets the credit for uncovering this history. I wish Lady Bird had been more appreciated as a st
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Fran Hawthorne
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Lynn Plourde's review
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Slow Motion: A Memoir of Friendship, Disability, and Advocacy:
"I'm so glad I read this book, a memoir of the author, Jennifer, and her friendship with a man who has cerebral palsy. She tells Marcel's story along with her own story of friendship and advocacy. It's overwhelming how much advocacy is needed and how "
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This book is so awful that I have to break my own rule that I will always read books to the end out of respect for my fellow authors. I've forced myself to read 4 chapters. I just can't take 400 more pages. (Another rule: I do not trash unknown or begi ...more |
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“In this age of consumer activism, pinpoint marketing, and unlimited and immediate information, we want the impossible: products and producers that will assure us that we are fashionable, and that don’t pollute, harm animals, or contain weird chemicals, that run on alternative energy, pay their workers good salaries, recycle their scraps, use natural ingredients, buy from local suppliers, donate generously to charity, donate in particular to their neighborhoods, and don’t throw their weight around by lobbying. (Or maybe they should lobby for the right causes?)”
― Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
― Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
“People keep secrets for all kinds of reasons. To avoid hurting other people. To protect their jobs. Sometimes I think people just get so used to their public versions of the truth, if they've been doing it for a long time, that they forget the secret they've been hiding.”
― I Meant to Tell You
― I Meant to Tell You
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“People keep secrets for all kinds of reasons. To avoid hurting other people. To protect their jobs. Sometimes I think people just get so used to their public versions of the truth, if they've been doing it for a long time, that they forget the secret they've been hiding.”
― I Meant to Tell You
― I Meant to Tell You
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