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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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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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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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Fran Hawthorne
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Brendan (History Nerds United)’s review
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The Nazi Ghost Train: Evasion, Betrayal, and Escape during World War II
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Your review was fun to read, as always--I hope you'll write a book yourself someday-- but the title sounds like a bait and switch. As you said, the ti
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Fran Hawthorne
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Brendan (History Nerds United)'s review
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The Nazi Ghost Train: Evasion, Betrayal, and Escape during World War II:
"I am going to read a lot of books in 2026, but I doubt any will have a better title than The Nazi Ghost Train by Greg Lewis. I mean, come on! Yes, you might be holding back a little bit because of one word in that title, but I assure you they lose in"
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I really appreciate your candor, Sandy; I know it's hard to write a negative review, especially when you started out with higher hopes.
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Fran Hawthorne
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32 other people
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Sandysbookaday (on indefinite hiatus)'s review
of
Wake-Up Calls:
"EXCERPT: 'You're going to have to go there. Don't you want to see where your mother grew up? And the name of the town? Tolerance? It sounds Quaker. I bet there's a story there. And the camp? The Camp in the Meadows, play on the family name, for sure."
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Fran Hawthorne
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Elizabeth Hayhoe’s review
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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
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I haven't read this, but from your description, it sounds like one of this author's weakest books. (I've read 4 excellent novels by her.) I wonder if
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Not usually my type of book but your description of the alien was wonderful--I could really comprehend what it is. You described it using words beyond
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"This is my first book I have read by H.P. Lovecraft. In fact, "The Color Out of Space" (1927) was H.P. Lovecraft’s personal favorite among his hundreds of stories. He considered it his most successful attempt at creating a truly alien, incomprehensib"
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I am not actually the particular audience you describe for this book. But I loved traveling the universe of your review! And I really appreciate how m
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"Melville is one of America’s queerer literary greats—not quite Walt Whitman, but still pretty gay, what with all the dudes on boats, male intimacy, boiling vats of sperm, etc. So it’s only mildly surprising that our own queer literary moment has insp"
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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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