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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 Pym’s Followers (19)
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Jason Pym
Goodreads Author
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The United Kingdom
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July 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/jasonpym
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The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking
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2012
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6 editions
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Travels Through Dali with a leg of ham
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A Dali Sketchbook
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2017
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2 editions
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Three Monks and a Bad Apple: Equivalent Sayings in Chinese and English (Mandarin Notebooks, #1)
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2012
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2 editions
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汉字博物馆
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2024
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Jason’s Recent Updates
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“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
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"Blankets is one of my all time, top 5 favorite books so I'm kind of stunned that I didn't realize he was publishing a serialized comic book, but am glad I only found out now that the entire series is available. Ginseng Roots fills in gaps in Thompson"
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"(MY 3RD FAVORITE BOOK OF 2025!)
Graphic artist Craig Thompson’s latest work centers on the famous medicinal root that plays a heavy part on his past and present. It first centers on him returning to his childhood home while we learn about he and his y" Read more of this review » |
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“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.”
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“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
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“Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing
1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
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1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
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Aug 24, 2014 07:07AM
Free Forgotten Realms book on Audible, read by Ice-T, David Duchovny, Felicia Day + http://goo.gl/121swX
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