"On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night, college professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a bizarre confession and an extraordinary story. Tantalized by the man’s unfinished tale, Alok will do anything to hear its completion. So Alok agrees, at the stranger’s behest, to transcribe a collection of battered notebooks, weathered parchments, and once-living skins.
From these documents spills the chronicle of a race of people at once more than human yet kin to beasts, ruled by instincts and desires blood-deep and ages-old. The tale features a rough wanderer in seventeenth-century Mughal India who finds himself irrevocably drawn to a defiant woman—and destined to be torn asunder by two clashing worlds. With every passing chapter of beauty and brutality, Alok’s interest in the stranger grows and evolves into something darker and more urgent."

But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan's friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.

At turns heartbreaking and joyous, I Wish You All the Best is both a celebration of life, friendship, and love, and a shining example of hope in the face of adversity."

Título: Caroline's Heart 
Autor: Austin Chant
Género: Romance, fantasía, ficción histórica
Páginas: 96
Disponible en español: No
Goodreads

"Cecily lost her soulmate years ago, leaving her with nothing but the clockwork heart that once beat in Caroline's chest. They say it's impossible to bring back the dead, yet Cecily's resurrection spell is nearly complete and grows more powerful by the day.
But when a cowboy she barely knows is fatally injured, the only way to save him is by sacrificing an essential piece of the resurrection spell—and all possibility of seeing her lover again."

"Nevada is the darkly comedic story of Maria Griffiths, a young trans woman living in New York City and trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail. When she finds out her girlfriend has lied to her, the world she thought she'd carefully built for herself begins to unravel, and Maria sets out on a journey that will most certainly change her forever."

Autor: Everett Marron

"Fifteen-year-old Jack Bishop has mad skills with cars and engines, but knows he’ll never get a driver’s license because of his epilepsy. Agreeing to participate in an experimental clinical trial to find new treatments for his disease, he finds himself in a completely different body—that of a girl his age, Jacqueline, who defies the expectations of her era. Since his seizures usually give him spazzed out visions, Jack presumes this is a hallucination. Feeling fearless, he steals a horse, expecting that at any moment he’ll wake back up in the clinical trial lab. When that doesn't happen, Jacqueline falls unexpectedly in love, even as the town in the past becomes swallowed in a fight for its survival. Jack/Jacqueline is caught between two lives and epochs, and must find a way to save everyone around him as well as himself. And all the while, he is losing time, even if he is getting out of algebra class."

Autor: Roberta Marrero

“No nací hombre ni mujer. Nací bebé. Necesito tiempo para saber quién soy.”

Así empieza la autobiografía ilustrada de Roberta Marrero: la historia real de una niña que nace en el cuerpo de un niño y de su camino hacia el autodescubrimiento y la afirmación de su propia identidad.

Desde la infancia hasta la adolescencia vamos conociendo el mundo interior de este personaje “extraterrestre”, el bebé verde, que crece viendo negada constantemente su propia imagen, su alma, su personalidad, su yo más auténtico. ¿Cómo se sobrevive en un entorno tan hostil? No olvidando que “siempre tienes que ser tú misma, no importa el precio. Es la forma más alta de moralidad”.

Título: Vidas Trans
Autores: Alana Portero, Arnau Macías, Darío Gael Blanco, Cassandra Vera y Atenea Bioque
Género: No ficción
Páginas: 98
Disponible en español: Sí
Goodreads

"Las personas trans conforman uno de los colectivos peor tratados de nuestra sociedad. En un país con una esperanza de vida de ochenta y tres años, permitimos que haya un grupo social, el de las mujeres trans, sometido a tal grado de violencia que apenas llega a los cincuenta. Este dato por si solo debería abrir telediarios, poner en marcha leyes específicas, promover medidas de reparación. Pero nada de eso sucede. Al contrario, este colectivo tiene que seguir aguantando deficiencias gravísimas en su tratamiento médico, violencia institucional constante, un desempleo que roza el ochenta y cinco por ciento y humillaciones por parte de la sociedad. En este libro, varias personas trans cuentan sus experiencias en distintos ámbitos: el trabajo, el sistema educativo, las redes sociales, la familia, la pareja, los medios de comunicación y el sistema médico. Hablan en primera persona de sus vivencias bajo la sombra de esa violencia, pero también de su valentía y de su lucha. "

Título: Un hombre de verdad: Lecciones de un boxeador que peleaba para abrazar mejor (traducción) | Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man (original)
Autor: Thomas Page McBee
Género: No ficción, autobiografía
Páginas: 157
Disponible en español: Sí
Goodreads

"Thomas Page McBee fue el primer boxeador transexual en combatir en el Madison Square Garden, pero este libro no va de eso. McBee nació con cuerpo de mujer, siempre se supo hombre, se operó a los treinta años y entendió que el mundo no volvería a ser igual. Porque cambiar de género lo cambia todo. Y de eso sí que trata este libro.
Un hombre de verdad es el relato en primerísima persona de esa transición, un testimonio lírico sobre qué significa ser hombre en el mundo actual. Cuando McBee decidió inscribirse en un gimnasio de boxeo para entender la masculinidad a partir de la violencia, se reconoció como amateur ante ese deporte y ante las preguntas más elementales sobre su propia identidad.
La historia de McBee puede leerse como un reportaje intimista sobre el acoso, el miedo, el rechazo y la aceptación. Pero sobre todo como una defensa de la fragilidad frente a los estereotipos omnipresentes del machito desfasado, con la certeza de que dentro y fuera del ring esta lucha es una sola. La suya, la tuya, la nuestra."

Las últimas tres recomendaciones, las encontré gracias al video de Elsa ^^

Antes que nada, feliz año nuevo :D
Espero que la hayan pasado bien, comiendo mucho y con gente importante para ustedes.

Como cada comienzo de año, es hora de proponernos metas para cumplir a lo largo del año (aunque se abandonen a las dos semanas).

Primero voy a ver cuantos retos cumplí en el 2019. 

—Leer 30 libros ¡Cumplido!

—5 libros en inglés ¡Cumplido!

—Tour latinoamericano. ¡Cumplido!

— Leer 30 cómics ¡Cumplido! (Gracias a los cómics de Transformers lol)

—Reto gordibuenos No cumplido...

—Pongámonos las Gafas Violetas No cumplido...





Mario Vargas Llosa
No creo que me una a otro, pero si es así lo voy a agregar acá. 

El reto es sencillo. Leer las novelas de Hercules Poirot o/y Miss Marple. De ser posible 

No es necesario cumplir un reto (o ambos) en un sólo año. Si se quiere puede hacerse sin una meta definida, en un año, en cinco, en diez... La idea es leer una novela de la autora cada cierto tiempo c:

Voy a recomendar novelas/cómics/ensayos/etc. cuyos autores sean trans o no entren en el espectro binario.

Acepto sugerencias c:

"Ella is transgender. She's known since she was young; being a woman just fit better. She was happier in skirts than trousers, but that was before her stepmother moved in. Eleanor can't stand her, and after Ella's father passes she's forced to revert to Cole, a lump of a son. She cooks, she cleans, and she tolerates being called the wrong name for the sake of a roof over her head. Where else can she go?...."

"Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While his sister received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what could be. What's more, he saw the sickness at the heart of his mother's Protectorate."

But when he returns to Neverland, everything has changed: the Lost Boys have become men, and the war games they once played are now real and deadly. Even more shocking is the attraction Peter never knew he could feel for his old rival, Captain Hook—and the realization that he no longer knows which of them is the real villain."

Título: Dreadnought (Nemesis, #1) 
Autor: April Daniels
Género: Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción
Páginas: 276
Disponible en español: No
Goodreads

"Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she’s transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny’s body into what she’s always thought it should be. Now there’s no hiding that she’s a girl.

It should be the happiest time of her life, but Danny’s first weeks finally living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined. Between her father’s dangerous obsession with “curing” her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he’s entitled to date her, and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she’s in over her head.

She doesn’t have time to adjust. Dreadnought’s murderer—a cyborg named Utopia—still haunts the streets of New Port City, threatening destruction. If Danny can’t sort through the confusion of coming out, master her powers, and stop Utopia in time, humanity faces extinction."

Título: An Unkindness of Ghosts 
Autor: Rivers Solomon
Género: Ciencia Ficción, Ficción
Páginas: 340
Disponible en español: No
Goodreads

"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.

Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot--if she's willing to sow the seeds of civil war."

Título: The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
Autor: Alexis Hall
Género: Fantasía, misterio
Páginas: 352
Disponible en español: No
Goodreads

"Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take lodgings at 221b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Ms. Shaharazad Haas, a consulting sorceress of mercurial temperament and dark reputation.
When Ms. Haas is enlisted to solve a case of blackmail against one of her former lovers, Miss Eirene Viola, Captain Wyndham finds himself drawn into a mystery that leads him from the salons of the literary set to the drowned back-alleys of Ven and even to a prison cell in lost Carcosa. Along the way he is beset by criminals, menaced by pirates, molested by vampires, almost devoured by mad gods, and called upon to punch a shark.
But the further the companions go in pursuit of the elusive blackmailer, the more impossible the case appears. Then again, in Khelathra-Ven reality is flexible, and the impossible is Ms. Haas' stock-in-trade."

"AMANDA HARDY es la alumna nueva de la escuela en Lambertville, Tennesse. Como cualquier chica, lo único que quiere es hacer amigos e integrarse. Pero Amanda mantiene un secreto. Existe una razón por la que se cambió de escuela en su último año y por la que tiene decidido no involucrarse con nadie.

Hasta que conoce a Grant Everett. Grant no se parece a nadie que ella haya conocido –es abierto, honesto, amable– y no puede evitar dejarlo entrar en su vida. A medida que empiezan a pasar tiempo juntos, Amanda siente deseos de contarle todo sobre ella… incluido su pasado. Pero tiene pánico de que una vez que Grant sepa la verdad, no pueda ver más allá de eso.

¿El secreto que Amanda viene manteniendo?

Que ella antes era Andrew..."

Título: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
Autor: Kai Cheng Thom 
Género: Ficción
Páginas: 188 
Disponible en español: No
Goodreads

"Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock, Dearly blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered, the protagonist joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes, violent johns, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family."