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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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Her Daughter
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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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I Meant to Tell You
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2022
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The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical Giant
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2003
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The Heirs
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2018
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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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I MEANT TO TELL YOU "would be a terrific book club pick" --
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Honestly, I don't understand why this novel was so avidly praised in The New York Times. On the positive side: It paints a vivid portrait of the sweat, smells, humidity, and mosquitoes of Taipei, and, more thoughtfully, a sincere sense of the alienati ...more |
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| Erin Miller Reid, the author of "But for Fortune," is a physician and a native of Kentucky, and both aspects of her life shine through the pages of this engrossing novel in her confident portrayal of medical procedures and in her loving descriptions ...more | |
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It is a truth that should be universally acknowledged, that a classic like "Pride and Prejudice" in possession of a vaunted reputation, must not be in want of yet another review on Goodreads. Therefore, I'll keep this review short. It's always such a p ...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
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