Taekook Fic Rec

#BookChallenge2021

So here is the #BookChallenge I put together for the year, muxing up categories from several Book Challenge lists I spotted on the net, such as POPSUGAR Reading Challenge or the Reading Women Challange. It counts 30 books as I will hopefully read a few more?

I put together one that could provide me a mix of pushing me out of my comfort zone/broadening my horizons and a very much deserved in this crazy long night self-indulgence. 

I am sharing it, even if it’s a bit late for this kind of projects but what is Time during a pandemic? The passage of time has been long lost ever since… Anyway! I am sharing this hoping to provide useful/intersting tips or - who knows? - inspiration to do this or a similar challenge to fellow bookworms and not. I added flags on certain categories so you know what to expect, that is where to find queer content or where to set sails. After all, in a time where travelling is pretty much not an option, a book can a be the best airplane ticket to fly around this big troubled world forgetting the current chaos…

A crime novel or thriller in translation by a Muslim/ Latinx/ Black/ Asian/ Indigenous and so on author: The Skating Ring (La pista de hielo), Roberto Bolano  🇨🇱

Reread a favourite: Love In the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Book by a Southern American author: Hurricane Season (Temporada de huracanes), Fernanda Melchor  🇲🇽   (suggested by the one and only @faeinthefog​)

Book about incarceration: Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison, Caitlin Davies

An author from Eastern Europe: Tales of The Little Quarter or Prague Tales ( Povídky malostranské), Jan Neruda  🇨🇿

Queer Love Story: The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall  🏳️‍🌈

A non-European book in translation (see point 1): The Sea Cloak and Other Stories, Nayrouz Qarmout (Palestine)  🇵🇸

A book you’ve been intimidated to read: Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo 🏳️‍🌈

Non-fiction about anti-racism: Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis

A LGBTQ+ History book: waiting for GJ season 2, a self-indulgent reading… Gentleman Jack: the Real Anne Lister, Anne Choma & Sally Wainwright 🏳️‍🌈

A book by a trans or non-binary author: Conundrum by the recently departed trans writer and historian Jan Morris  🏳️‍⚧️  🏳️‍🌈

A debut novel of a queer author: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong  🏳️‍🌈

Read a book with a cover you don’t like: The Fourteenth Letter, Claire Evans

A book published in 2021: Common Ground, Naomi Ishiguro

A book by an author who shares my zodiac sign (Scorpio): The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue 🏳️‍🌈

Poetry collection by a black woman: And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou

A book you’ve seen on someone’s bookshelf: Claudine at School, Colette (spotted on @natreadsthings​ blog)

An epistolary: Love Letters, Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville West  🏳️‍🌈

A book with a black and white cover: We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Shirley Jackson - spooky Halloween reading

A book set in multiple countries: Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan 🏳️‍🌈

A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021: Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin (Paris)  🏳️‍🌈

A book everyone seems to have read but you: The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (I know: SHAME ON ME!)

A book set in the 1920′s: Save Me the Waltz, Zelda Fitzgerald

A book where the main character works at your current or dream job: Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach

A book about art or an artist: The Doll Factory, Elizabeth Macneal

A book made into a TV series: The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Travis

An author you love: Syndrome E, Franck Thilliez

A book you own but haven’t read yet: Acorn, Yoko Ono

Bestselling memoir: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson  🏳️‍🌈

A book recommended by a librarian: The Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith, Shirley Jackson

“That’s the thing about sensitive people. Things take time. Time to absorb other people’s feelings and time to restore their own sanity. Time to adjust to change and time to remain with their own values. Time to ask why things are the way they are and time to just simply let things be. A life of taking two steps forward and one step back is a powerful way to be.”

— Juansen Dizon, Sensitive People

I, as a trans woman, have Issues and Problems with Phoebe Waller-Bridge & some stuff she’s written about womanhood in pretty bioessentialist ways (in otherwise really good tv shows) but I don’t know if I wanna post them here because I’m worried people will tell me I’m being Over The Top & clutching at straws as people always accuse trans women when they criticize cis women.

every single day i think about how horribly rumi’s poems have been translated from persian into english & how they’ve been turned from gorgeous poems abt islamic spirituality into these… pithy vapid little quotes that white people post as instagram captions. white scholars & translators straight-up falsified and misrepresented the essential themes of and islamic mysticism inherent to his work in favor of turning it into easy-to-consume love poetry & it never fails to make me angry

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28269492/chapters/69276438

Sooo I finally posted my first fanfiction and if any of you want to check it out I'd be really grateful! ❤

It's basically Oikawa, Kuroo, Bokuto and Daichi sharing a dorm! And fluff and stuff!

Neymar's sweater is the prettiest blue

Neymar and Kylian Mbappe in the locker room after PSG-St Étienne

Personal space doesn't exist in Stray Kids

Language moodboard: Bosnian (bosanski / босански)

For @divas-world

“Slučajna spontana dremka dok se film gleda. Kafa koja se natenane ispija. Gubljenje u stranicama knjige koju čitaš. Razgovor sa tebi dragim ljudima uz smeh do suza. Gledanje epizoda omiljene serije, u nizu, sa prekidom tek da dopuniš činiju čipsom ili kokicama. Slušanje muzike. Prelistavanje časopisa. Znaš već, one male prijatnosti koje te opuste i vrate osmeh na lice. Priredi ih sebi danas.”

- recisumojeigracke

we can wish that rashford had more common sense than to play through the pain barrier & put his body on the line for this stupid club but is anyone really shocked about it? he’s been at man utd since he was 7 & the only other team he’s been on is the england team. it’s quite literally the essence of manchester united and english football to put your mind body and soul on the line for club & country bc football players can’t possibly be trying hard enough unless they’re bleeding & falling apart on the pitch. it doesn’t even take long to find other examples of this (wayne rooney). & instead of blaming this toxic mindset that is drilled into players since they’ve been young, they decide to blame his off field activities instead? like apparently there’s no way this warrior mindset can be the problem it has to be fact he’s trying to bring awareness and find solutions to deep socioeconomic problems in this country. i hate football sm