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Jason’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jason’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jason Simon
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in Canton, Ohio, The United States
July 20
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January 2011
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https://www.goodreads.com/amancalledj
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Short Fiction: The Other Side of the Hedge
The old man next door had died a month or so before Tom and Mallory moved in. Living next to an abandoned house, particularly one with disordered stacks of files and boxes visible through each of the upstairs windows, a lawn overrun with creeping charlie, and a looming 20-ft boundary hedge that hadn’t been pruned in decades, wasn’t an ideal situation or investment, but theirs was a two-story red b
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“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“I should be used to the way Americans dress when traveling, yet it still manages to amaze me. It’s as if the person next to you had been washing shoe polish off a pig, then suddenly threw down his sponge saying, “Fuck this. I’m going to Los Angeles!”
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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Short Stories: Small word count, BIG impact. Short Story authors and readers need a hub strong enough to support the power of the short story. Help us ...more
