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The WomenBook

by Kristin Hannah, 2024

Who uses, recommends or left The Women, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Co-founder of Glue Club and host of TED's WorkLife podcast; writes the Lessons newsletter; former operations leader at Facebook, Quip and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
loved

The Women by Kristin Hannah. I think I’m late to the party but this book is phenomenal.

Monthly "tidbits" post; section on content she loved in June 2024.

2024-07-10·mollyg.substack.com ↗

Co-founder of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation; publishes book reviews and essays at Gates Notes.
loved

This terrific novel tells the story of Frankie McGrath, an army nurse who serves two tours on the frontlines in Vietnam before returning home to a country rocked by protest and anti-war sentiment.

Gates's 2024 summer reading list entry on Kristin Hannah's Vietnam novel.

2024-05-21·gatesnotes.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

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