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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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Her Daughter
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I Meant to Tell You
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2022
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2 editions
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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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4 editions
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Pension Dumping: The Reasons, the Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street
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2008
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8 editions
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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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What happened to the Ann Patchett who wrote the amazing "Commonwealth" (one of my all-time favorites) and the flawed but still intriguing "The Dutch House"? Now she's sunk into pablum like "Tom Lake" and this newest, "Whistler." I understand that milli ...more |
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I thought this book was brilliant. I'll look forward to your review.
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You wrote: "I think one way to judge a book is by how much one looks forward to getting back to it" -- That's a good rule of thumb, but for me, the st
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"⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 4 “burning” stars for Nothing to See Here, by Kevin Wilson, a book I just this minute finished reading and absolutely loved. I think one way to judge a book is by how much one looks forward to getting back to it and such was the case here"
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That's a strong recommendation, when you still love it on second reading. I've had that experience with classics that I read when I was too young to a
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"Updated: Read again in 2026 for book club. Still loved it! More quotes added to review below.
I loved this book, a nostalgic coming of age story set in 1960s Minnesota, with a strong under current of faith. The story turns serious when there's an acci" Read more of this review » |
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I love the fact that the land plays a role in this novel, but I'm not a big fan of magical realism. Do you think this novel is more grounded than it i
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"An epic Irish story that takes you on quite a journey… starts off in 1865 after the years of the Great Hunger… it follows a family in an Irish peninsula… it’s a story of overlapping lives and haunting ghosts and tells the story of how the land rememb"
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Yes, there are a lot of books about the. Holocaust, so of course they can't all be good. But especially now, I think it's important to have an array o
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3.5 stars raised to 4 Parts of this debut novel are so powerful, so deeply true and slicing and breathtaking, that I wanted to shout. (Also to stop reading because it was too harrowing--or alternatively, grab the first-person narrator, Clarice Dahl, t ...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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