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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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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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"When Sam Clay's cousin, Joe Kavalier arrives in New York City after a harrowing flight from Nazi-occupied Prague, Sam recognizes his cousin's artistic talents and recruits him into his own dream of jumping into the comic book industry, which was just"
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Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register:
"I worked in a supermarket when I was in college. I made about $7 an hour in the late 90's and early 2000's. I worked for a good company, but certainly the pay was pretty minimal for the amount of work required. I started as a cashier, and eventually "
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| There's a lot to like about John Wisell's Nebula Award-winning 2024 novel Someone You Can Build a Nest In. The central character, Shesheshen, is some kind of amorphous slime monster who can shapeshift into different forms, including human, by approxi ...more | |
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| Gabino Isgelsias's Bram Stoker Award-winning 2022 novel The Devil Takes You Home is billed as "a barrio noir." While that's a true enough description, the book also delves into horror with scenes of dark rituals and even an interesting take on zombie ...more | |
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I couldn't get into it. It seemed like Kindred by Octavia Butler, but with an author who has open disdain for the central character. Maybe that resolv
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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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