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Fran’s 2025 Year in Books
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Fran Hawthorne
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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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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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Her Daughter
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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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I really appreciate all the time you took to write this detailed review and to ponder the interweaving of this book's plot and themes. I'm just wonder
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"'I can't tell you about something that doesn't exist,' he said. 'How can I tell you about nothing?'
'At least tell me why.' 'Why what?' 'Why you got involved in the first place. When and for how long. Was it in Oxford, or later? Don't tell me it was bef" Read more of this review » |
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"'You were wrong to be so hard on yourself...You were afterall, inevitable. An inevitable occurence. Who else would you have been but who you [were]'.
When Jill Blaine passed away, she was elevated to a state that allowed her to come back to earth in o" Read more of this review » |
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"This is normally not the kind of book I read. However, it had so many international awards. So, I decided to go for it.
Not the porn book I was worried about but a look into the psychology of cheating. Well written " |
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Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling
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This sounds like such an important expose. I really appreciate the examples you cite--Gambling destroys people in more ways, from little to big, than
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Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling:
"Who would have thought that legalizing gambling would lead to problems! Oh, a lot of people did? Well then.
Danny Funt went ahead and wrote a book about all of these problems in his revelatory Everybody Loses. As you may have guessed from the title, i" Read more of this review » |
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Thank you, Laurie. (Hmm, paid by the adjective... I'll have to re-read Wharton! That's not my usual style, either. Adjectives should be used precisely
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Warning, Jennifer: I'm about 1/3 through and forcing myself to continue in fairness to a fellow novelist. (I would like everyone to give my novels mor
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Kin
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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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