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Fran’s 2024 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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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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Yes, Kristin HAnnah can write a page-turner! DId you guess the ending? (Not to brag, but I did....but i sure didn't guess most of the twists in-betwee
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"Not since KH's The Four Winds have I been so caught up in a story. The bravery, ingenuity, and resilience in this story are almost unimaginable. I learned so much about France and what happened during the Nazi occupation. Because the reader gets to k"
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"Magical"-- that sounds so strong! As a novelist myself, I'm glad you stuck with the book until the end; i hope my readers stick with my novels, too,
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"Greta used to be an actor, starring in a coffee commercial with her family. She used to get recognized by fans. Lately she can't get any parts. Oh, and have I mentioned? Greta used to be an actor......over and over again. Get used to it and move on. "
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Wow, that's a lot of different writing styles and genres in one book!
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"I’m with my fellow Goodreads reviewer Will Ejzak on this one…Lily King’s brilliant and inspired writing successfully edges out the near mawkish sentimentality of her story (but it’s kind of a close call). I enjoyed the novel, which is a quick, entert"
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"Another divorce book" -- is that a genre now, LOL?
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Lawyer Games: After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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What strikes me, actually-- and this may seem trivial -- is the contrast in the two books' titles. "Midnight" is unusual and moody. "Lawyer Games" is
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Fran Hawthorne
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Lawyer Games: After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil:
"If, after reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and watching the movie, you still haven’t had enough of Jim Williams, Danny Hansford, and Savannah’s Mercer House, this is the book for you. This book, unlike its predecessor, does it not much"
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(I must be in a strange mood: Instead of my usual string of 3-stars, my last five ratings have been the extremes of either 2 or 4 !) Let's put it this way: I think it's good to experiment, to read out of my normal genres. But then how can I fairly rate ...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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