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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: Teacher Appreciation Week
She’s the first person he talks to every morning. He told her this once, early on, and now, when she comes into his room in the morning, which happens every morning, she asks specifically, “Was I the first person you talked to today?”
“Yes,” he says and then offers some approximation of, “I left for work this morning before anyone else in my house was awake. Even the dog. You’re the first person I’ Read more of this blog post »
“Yes,” he says and then offers some approximation of, “I left for work this morning before anyone else in my house was awake. Even the dog. You’re the first person I’ Read more of this blog post »
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The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids’ Learning -- And How To Help Them Thrive Again:
"Bravo! If I had to distill my reaction to The Digital Delusion into a single line, it would be this: finally, an education book that actually says the quiet parts out loud—and backs them with coherent thought instead of tech-evangelist glitter.
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| I first read Denis Johnson's 2012 novella Train Dreams a year or two after it came out on a trip in Southeast Asia, where I'd lived at the time. In fact, I can't seem to remember whether I even finished the book or left it behind at a cafe in Hoi An, ...more | |
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| It's hard not to be in awe of Karen Russell's imagination. Although she writes in realistic settings, albeit with magical elements, she has the world-building skill of high fantasy writers. This is best seen in many of her masterful short stories in ...more | |
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| Stefan Grabiński has been referred to as the Polish equivalent of Poe or Lovecraft. Having now read his short story collection, The Dark Domain, I'd say that tracks. Grabiński's short stories are macabre and fantastical in similar ways and often feat ...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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