Jason Cook

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Jason’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (3)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (419)
reading-soon‎ (0)
general-literary-fiction‎ (133)
2009-reads‎ (62)
2010-reads‎ (61)
2013-reads‎ (40)
2017-reads‎ (40)
science-fiction‎ (40)
humor‎ (39)
2015-reads‎ (36)

books-i-love‎ (36)
horror‎ (32)
nonfiction‎ (30)
fantasy‎ (29)
memoir‎ (29)
2008-reads‎ (26)
television‎ (26)
mystery‎ (25)
2016-reads‎ (20)
2019-reads‎ (19)
read-when-i-was-a-kid‎ (15)
read-when-i-was-a-teen‎ (15)

2021-reads‎ (13)
children-of-all-ages‎ (13)
read-when-i-was-in-my-early-20s‎ (10)
young-adult-fiction‎ (9)
doctor-who‎ (7)
japanese‎ (7)
history‎ (6)
beatles‎ (5)
british‎ (5)
2018-reads‎ (4)
film‎ (4)
audiobook‎ (3)

july-2017-one-word-title-challenge‎ (3)
psychology‎ (3)
august-2017-crazy-eights-challenge‎ (2)
college-lit-classes‎ (2)
historical-fiction‎ (2)
kindle‎ (2)
poetry‎ (2)
abandoned‎ (1)
native-american‎ (1)
portuguese‎ (1)
september-2017-back-to-school-chall‎ (1)
swedish‎ (1)

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Jason’s Quotes

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21426 likes

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

3676 likes

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

tags: love

5436 likes

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.”
― Marcel Proust, Days of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading, words

371 likes

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

10091 likes

More of Jason’s quotes…

The Next Best Book Club — 25840 members — last activity Dec 01, 2025 07:12AM
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The Book Challenge — 1220 members — last activity Nov 17, 2025 08:05PM
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Hooked on Books — 4614 members — last activity 9 minutes ago
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All About Books — 3815 members — last activity 4 hours, 18 min ago
We're here because we like reading and we like chatting about reading. But we are here especially because we strongly believe that reading is not just ...more