Reading challenge 2025

The last days before 2024 ended I was scrolling through social media and saw that certain creator I follow because I like his posts about linguistics, tea, and books, posted a reading challenge, and I don't know why but I thought: "why not try?"

The challenge is very simple, there are 12 prompts, one for each month of the year:

• January: a book by an author from a country far from yours
• February: a book that someone dear to you chose for you
• March: a book with your favorite color on the cover
• April: a book you would have liked to read as a child
• May: a book adapted from other media
• June: a book by an lgbtqia author
• July: a book someone you admire liked
• August: a book that someone recommended on the internet
• September: a book by an author from your country
• October: a book that has to do with language/languages
• November: a fantasy or science fiction novel
• December: whatever book you want

Currently, I'm reading Married Thrice to Salted Fish, by Bikabi, it's danmei, and it counts because the author is from a country far away from mine.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to finish the challenge, because I suck at challenges. I ended up dropping the End of the Year Drama Challenge 2024 I started on fedi, for example. But I really want to try. Maybe another challenge will be not feeling guilty if I don't finish it, ha: Don't beat yourself up over things no one else cares about challenge, and anyone can join me whenever they want.

I'm wondering if I should say the name of the creator or link to his profile but I'm not sure 🤔​.

The Heartkillers

I don't really know when I stopped watching Thai BL out of curiosity and because the first one I watched left me very dissatisfied, but I have watched more and more and now I think I genuinely enjoy them. Something I appreciate is that there are different flavors, and yes, I kinda like that they're a bit higher heat, but it's not a requisite for me to like stories.

At some point last year I was obssesed with The Sign because besides the romance they also had to solve crimes and there was a villain with supernatural powers and all...

But now it's time to obsess over The Heartkillers. It's been very fun and it's the highlight of my Wednesdays. I like this format of waiting for new episodes each week, it prevents me from binge watching and I need to do things like focus on work, which it's actually helpful.

Anyway, I really like that all the four mains are people of questionable morals. I have been enjoying the deception and now the consequences of said deception. I admit I was expecting something a bit darker but it's fine, that's what fics are for, I haven't read many, but after these last two episodes, I'm sure I can find the flavor I'm looking for 😁​... I have been daydreaming fics that I'll probably never write, but I don't feel disappointed when things don't happen like in my head. As it says on Dee's wall: "Less expectations, more satisfaction"

Every week I hope I don't get disappointed and it's been already 8 episodes, let's see how it ends. Four more episodes to go.

I am tempted to read the novel, but I'm not sure if there's an english translaton out there. I'm curious to see if it's darker or if it's more romcom and what are the differences.