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Fran’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Fran’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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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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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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13 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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8 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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Her Daughter
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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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Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)'s review
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Last Stop on the Winter Wonderland Express:
"EXCERPT: 16 December, Kent, England
Wedding Day I have the sudden urge to run. That would be OK if: (a) I was the running type and (b) it wasn't my wedding day. No one mentions wedding jitters are this intense, do they? My bridal party excitedly chatter " Read more of this review » |
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"This book took my breath away. There are two parallel stories here. One is the story of a pampered and world-travelled young woman (“Ada”) born and raised in Charleston S.C. who had moved to hard scrabble Virginia mountain country with her preacher f"
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Good for you, guessing the twist so quickly! It took me longer... though I quickly caught two gaping holes (which I can't reveal here)
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"I read this for a book club, and I believe that we will have an interesting discussion.
Jacob Bonner is a one-hit writer whose professional life has been going downhill since his original book. While he is teaching, one of his students share part of a" Read more of this review » |
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I like your last sentence... "perfect casual read for many" but not for you?
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"This book was a book club selection, not a book I would choose. Phoebe arrives at a grand hotel in Newport R.I. after leaving her home and job. Following several failed IVF procedures and seeing her husband in an affair with his coworker, Phoebe feel"
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These Summer Storms
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Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)’s review
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Last Stop on the Winter Wonderland Express
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A great review, Sandy: your praise and criticism are nuanced and detailed. (I do like the name "Unlucky in Love Travel Club" !)
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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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