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Jason’s 2024 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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Repatriated on Kindle Vella
If you're among my TENS of readers, you may have noticed that I haven't published anything new in my novel-in-progress Repatriated in a while. It's been a busy time with big life changes, new surroundings, etc.
Anyway, the point is that I've decided to migrate Repatriated to Amazon's Kindle Vella platform, which seems to make more sense for what I'm working on and even lead to additional tens of r Read more of this blog post »
Anyway, the point is that I've decided to migrate Repatriated to Amazon's Kindle Vella platform, which seems to make more sense for what I'm working on and even lead to additional tens of r Read more of this blog post »
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| Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Stroussen's 2025 book War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech and Why They Fail is exactly what its title promises: a refutation of ten distinct arguments that are regularly made against free speech in our modern era. ...more | |
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The Dream Hotel
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| Despite its title, Charlie English's 2025 book The CIA Book Club has less to do with the American intelligence apparatus than with the heroism of Polish citizens during the era of totalitarian Soviet communism working as book smugglers and undergroun ...more | |
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This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
by John Darnielle (Goodreads Author)
3 copies
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December 01, 2025
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| Natasha Brown's 2025 novel Universality is well regarded enough by critics that it was on the longlist for the Booker Prize, but ultimately it didn't work for me for a variety of reasons. For one thing, the book exemplifies so much of what increasing ...more | |
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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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