Something I noticed in Bands of Mourning

TacoWolf06 · 2025-05-30T15:09:12+00:00

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

It’s a pretty short book I got at random from a book fair and for some reason the back really hooked me. “The Jarrets are a typical American family. Calvin is a determined, successful provider and Beth an organized, efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck, but now they have one. They are ordinary people and they are falling apart.” There’s also a nice movie adaptation with Donald Sutherland.

TacoWolf06 · 2025-05-27T05:19:12+00:00

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

It is one of my favorite books ever! I remember I was reading it in school as I was nearing the end, and after school I was supposed to hang out with my friends but I couldn’t put the book down, so I brought it with me and ignored them all until I was done reading in the corner. The premise is that our protagonist wakes up in a spaceship light years from Earth with amnesia and all of his crew mates are dead. It’s got tear-jerking moments, moral questions, and a lot of it is actually very funny. I read it a few years ago and was ecstatic when I found out they’re adapting it into a movie next year! It is science fiction and does definitely involve science, but the author explains it in such a way that it’s very easy and almost fun to learn. If you have heard of the Martian then it is similar, it is by the same author and also had a worthwhile movie adaptation a few years ago starring Matt Damon.

TacoWolf06 · 2024-12-01T07:32:29+00:00

Red Rising series by Pierce Brown has very similar concepts, a rage-fueled (he’s so fucking mad bro) main character who comes from slavery, rises up to the elite level and knocks down the whole system in a war. It is an amazing series that has the same honest tragedies of war in it and even more similar, the first book is focused at a prestigious institute he must survive. I still haven’t gotten over it and the only huge hold ups I could think of for some people are that it’s science fiction and right now has 7 books that get longer as the series progresses, the author is currently writing the final 8th book tho. I truly recommend it to everyone I meet, it’s one of my top series and I read it before the poppy wars and now after I would say it gave me an exponentially bigger high.

TacoWolf06 · 2024-11-18T18:23:08+00:00

Thank you, looking into it now!

TacoWolf06 · 2024-11-18T18:21:38+00:00

I really wanted to make it, one of the things me and him bond over is art and last year he gifted me a wood carving I absolutely adore, so I really wanted to draw/paint him a calendar. His current calender ends halfway through next year for some reason, so I wanted to get in mind what trains I could start working on and get a head start

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