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BETHANNE PATRICK maintains a storied place in the publishing industry as a critic and as @TheBookMaven on Twitter, where she created the popular #FridayReads and regularly comments on books and literary ideas to over 200K followers. Her work appears frequently in the Los Angeles Times as well as at The Washington Post, NPR Books, and Literary Hub. She sits on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and has served on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. She is the host of the Missing Pages podcast.

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Twitter Book Club: “Utopia, Texas”

Greetings, all. It’s been a while. If I seem to say that a lot, well, it’s because I’ve been busy in the past year with a book, a startup, an injury, and a career change, which makes my life sound quite incorrectly like a Peter Greenaway film.

But enough about me for right now. Today I’m here to introduce a great giveaway for a great book launch. If you’ve followed #fridayreads for a while on Twitt

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Bethanne Patrick’s books

Average rating: 3.62 · 1,089 ratings · 199 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People 3.62 avg rating — 584 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncommon History of Common Things, An by Bethanne Patrick, John M. Thompson, Henry Petroski (Foreword) 3.61 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life B: Overcoming Double Depression 3.89 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Uncommon History of Common Courtesy: How Manners Shaped the World 3.25 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Defying Gravity: Fiction by DC-area Women by Richard Peabody (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Suzanne Stroh (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Arin Greenwood (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abraham Lincoln 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forts of the West 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ulysses S. Grant really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Native American Languages 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Uncommon History of Common Things 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Reading has power. It can be education or entertainment, solace or spark, one time only or many times over.”
― Bethanne Patrick, The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

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“Heroes, you see—they’re exactly like us. History books tend to put people like Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks up on pedestals. They’re treated as gods. But know this: No one is born a hero. We’re all born the same way, and we have to achieve and work hard and struggle and fight. But if we teach our kids that the power of people like Lincoln and Parks is inside all of us, that each one of us has the potential to do something great, that could change the world. And it doesn’t have to be about something history making. It could just be about helping one person, being kind to one person. That’s the greatness that all of us can achieve.”
― Bethanne Patrick, The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

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“Reading a book, the right book—you recognize yourself.”
― Bethanne Patrick, The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

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