Jonah Grignon > Recent Status Updates

Homers of fiction ranked:
1. Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
2. Homer (the Greek one)
3. Homer Wells (The Cider House Rules)
4. Homer Simpson (Day of the Locust)

If I say what I actually wanna say about Anthony Bourdain I think a lot of you won't want to be my friend anymore

A seventeenth-century sailing ship is such a top-tier setting for a mystery, I have no idea how it hasn't been used more

I am not too fond of this "United States of America"

A little bit orientalist and problematic in places, but hey, it was a different time way back in *checks notes* 2010.

Is 2026 the year Jonah gets into Grandpa-core literature?

I've gotten really sick of how every fantasy story does the same worldbuilding schtick of "Long ago there were giants in this land but now they have all passed into legend" so colour me pleasantly surprised that this book is instead built around "how the f*** are we going to deal with all these stupid giants??"

Reading a book a bout cod

Yar Har Avast

Yo ho yar

Reading this so Brett Popplewell will stop showing up in my dreams to threaten me

When I'm visualizing scenes in this book, I can only picture them as an old animated movie. But not like classic Disney-style, more like those oddball 80s dark fantasy movies with rotoscoping and painted backgrounds that traumatized millennials when they were kids. Good stuff.

Unprecedented levels of quirk for 1946

Mr. Bachman appears to have drastically overestimated how much people watch broadcast TV and use the word "honky" in A.D. 2025

Reading Hemingway made me think of that other renowned early-20th century American author, the one I liked way better. Picked up my copy of the Great Gatsby and forgot just how short it actually was, so here we go again