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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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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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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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2 editions
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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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Sharon Ouderkirk’s review
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An English Garden Murder (Julia Bird Mysteries, #1)
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Congratulations on your retirement. And now you'll have time to write even more reviews!
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Fran Hawthorne
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Sharon Ouderkirk's review
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An English Garden Murder (Julia Bird Mysteries, #1):
"I picked An English Garden Murder because it was my last week of work prior to retirement and I wanted a cozy non-demanding read to go with a big emotional week. Well, I got what I wanted: this novel was as perfect for my mood as a cold drink of wate"
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Isn't that typical of a collection? You're lucky if you think half are really good.
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"This is a collection of short stories + a novella. I had mixed feelings about the collection -- I thought many of the stories were excellent. In particular, I liked
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Beautiful review, BJ! I fled LA as soon as I graduated from HS because it was my childhood (not because it was LA), and in fact, my newest novel is mo
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"I had the unspeakable good fortune to read the first half of Eve Babitz’s delicate, delicious paean to Los Angeles on a sunny terrace in Hollywood, and the second half in a cloud-streaked London drawing room, and so can attest that Eve’s Hollywood is"
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It took me a while to get into this book; at first I thought Sybil was a cliche of a crotchety old lady (Gilda Radner's immortal Emily Litella on Satu
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"This is the story of the life of a septuagenarian living in Annapolis Maryland named Sybal, told via the mechanism of letters (and some emails) sent and received. Most of the letters date from her last decade. I’m old enough to remember when—before t"
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Fran Hawthorne
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Sandysbookaday (on indefinite hiatus)’s review
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Anatomy of an Alibi
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I'm so glad you stuck it out to the end, Sandy. I've recently read several novels that improved significantly in the second half. (Also, as a novelist
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This is a powerful and lovely novel in many ways. Although it's only 130 pages, a lot of the pages are so dense with insights and descriptions that they must be read slowly. Don't be fooled by the title, and don't expect Stephen King or Alice Hoffman. ...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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