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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.
Jason Simon’s Followers (79)
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Jason Simon
Goodreads Author
Born
in Canton, Ohio, The United States
July 20
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January 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/amancalledj
More books by Jason Simon…
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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| Uketsu's Strange Houses is a book whose central conceit is basically a gimmick: that oddities in the floor plans of houses can reveal darker mysteries to be unraveled. It's a really fun concept and the reason I decided to give this book a go, but the ...more | |
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| I'm a really big fan of Ben Lerner's prior novels The Topeka School (2011) and Leaving the Atocha Station (2019). Like those two works, Lerner's 2026 novel Transcription is a slight book, light on plot development but heavy on ontological and epistem ...more | |
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"Lovely book written by my former HS English Teacher :-)))"
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"Jason’s short stories are full of life, thoughtful conversations, and cautionary approaches to sometimes explosive issues. His characters from all around the world represent themselves, their cultures, and their zeitgeists. As a reader, I felt the co"
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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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This is a place for Readers, Writers, Authors, Bloggers & Publishers to make connections, find new friends, ask for help and discover great new reads. ...more
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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
