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LiberLibelula In reply to ??? [2017-10-30 09:28:15 +0000 UTC]

I'm writing it just now! And of course, it will be translated to English. But right now, I only have a Romance novel on Amazon, and I'm preparing one about Selkies and Magic for this late autumn

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LiberLibelula In reply to FoxxyK [2017-07-20 08:41:59 +0000 UTC]

Yes, he does! XD Thank you so much *v*

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LiberLibelula In reply to Rayba [2017-06-20 07:52:18 +0000 UTC]

Rayba, de verdad, me das unas alegrías cada vez que comentas, que es como chutarme arcoíris en vena. ¡Claro que la publicaré! La tengo medio escrita ya, pero entre preparar la otra novela y la romántica y proyectos varios, he tenido que aparcarla una temporada. Pero no veas las ganas que le tengo, uffff...

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LiberLibelula In reply to SkekLa [2017-03-23 10:41:55 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much SkekLa!

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LiberLibelula In reply to Jess--Art [2017-03-03 10:01:38 +0000 UTC]

Floating boobs!

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Jess--Art In reply to LiberLibelula [2017-03-12 21:05:16 +0000 UTC]

YUP OF COURSE

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LiberLibelula In reply to schlach-uffn-kopp [2017-03-03 10:01:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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schlach-uffn-kopp In reply to LiberLibelula [2017-03-03 19:19:06 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome!

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LiberLibelula In reply to Brianna330 [2017-03-03 10:02:28 +0000 UTC]

I like maiden-like mermaids, but scary, animalistic mermaids are super cool too!
Thank you

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LiberLibelula In reply to StopAtTheEdge [2017-03-03 10:02:04 +0000 UTC]

¡Muchísimas gracias!

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LiberLibelula In reply to ReleaseTheCristal [2016-06-23 10:45:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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LiberLibelula In reply to Krigstein [2016-06-16 09:38:09 +0000 UTC]

He'll probably pierce her with his Mighty Hook of Passion, as far as stuff in my books tends to go XDDD

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LiberLibelula In reply to Poetsiren [2016-02-22 11:50:22 +0000 UTC]

Hi Poetsiren! ¡Encantada!
For now, only one is published, and you can find it here in amazon: La dama y el bandolero . It's available in digital format and softcover edition (I guarantee that the print quality is very good), and you can read a good chunk in the preview mode. The story is set in the south of Spain in the first half of the XIXth century. Bandits! The church! Semana Santa! Angry bulls! All the topics ever known to existence gather in this book that I must admit, wrote without taking anything seriously. And then people liked it XD
Translating the accents can be tricky, specially such thick accents like Andalusians. I'm translating the novel to English, and the hardest things are the made up expressions, you know, common phrases. But luckily there's always some English equivalent ^^

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Poetsiren In reply to LiberLibelula [2016-02-24 01:44:08 +0000 UTC]

I agree that translating from Andalusian Spanish is difficult! I do very well with Latin American and Central American Spanish, and that is mostly what is used in my area. However, I had a professor who only spoke Spanish as though she was from Andalucia - it was the most rigorous class I ever had. I was fine with the book work, but it was her oral teaching lessons, haha, that had me often stumped! I often tell people that there is a distinct difference - if the tongues were drinks, then Central/Latin American Spanish was like drinking ginger ale, and Spain was like drinking champagne! LOL! (No offense to anyone out there! That's just how my language student brain could tell the difference!)
As for the books, I am quite interested in period pieces, as well! My favorite, though, is a book with mermaids - for them I will read almost anything!
Best of luck on your new piece and translating your editions into English!   

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LiberLibelula In reply to Poetsiren [2016-02-27 09:48:41 +0000 UTC]

No offense taken at all! It's true that Spanish from Spain sounds more... polished, and Latin Spanish is more musical, like more friendly. Funny thing is, I'd rather hear a video tutorial in Latin Spanish than my own, because it's easier to keep one's attention on their voices.
Ooouch, that professor must have been vicious to teach non-Spanish students in Andalucian accent! XD I tell you, every province has a different accent, and then every town and village have their own as well. In mine the accent is brutal. The foreigners that come here get bewildered. Most of us speak normally, but there's an age, specially in boys from 10 to 19 or so, where the accent is the rawest you can imagine. How could I describe it? I'll put an example:

Normal Spanish: "Ven a mi casa a comer cerezas y cerveza"
Andalucian Spanish: "Vente pa mi casa a comé zerezah y zerveza"
My town Spanish: "Vente pa mi caha' comé herehah y herveha"

When I got to college in the capital, my friends laughed their asses off everytime my accent slipped a little. And people said about me "But why does she have that accent so weird?". It was most funny XDD

Oh, mermaids! I've grown quite interested in them for a while and wanted to read a good book about them. I got "Waterfire" by Jennifer Donelly, but I found it quite disappointing. It was as if it was supposed to be a high-school-princess story, and in the last moment the writer changed humans for mermaids and legs for tails. These mermaids dye their hair and use makeup, play music (underwater), shoot arrows (Underwater???), sit (underwater?? You've got tails, what's the point of sitting? Just lay on a rock, you'll be more comfortable!). Along with undersea puns and stuff. I don't often mind those things, but I found it hard to get inmersed in that story, and since then I'm afraid that the rest of mermaid books will be more of the same.

Have you got any recommendations? (By the way, I'm on Goodreads, so if you're there as well we could talk about books! )

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Poetsiren In reply to LiberLibelula [2016-02-27 16:51:32 +0000 UTC]

omg.... I am laughing at your Spanish accent differences! I mean, in America we all have different accents depending on the state we live in, so I can imagine that any country is similar in their tongues. I apologize that I am not speaking more spanish with you - even though I translated for a living, English is my primary language and I am a bit out of practice being surrounded for several years by English-speakers in med school. I was pleased to notice that just a few conversations in Spanish with Spanish-only patients brought some of it back. That was why I got into Spanish, I realized it was a gateway to getting a better medical education, lol. There was a need here for Spanish speaking providers, and even a need for translators. I have few extended family in Peru and Guatemala, so the interest was piqued in high school, but when college came around and I was working in a hospital, I realized JUST how much more useful I was to the doctors, and more importantly to the families, when I was ordered to go to the ER because the translation phone system went down in the hospital. I was only a Freshman in college, but had taken Spanish devotedly every year in high school and was in 3 Spanish classes that year in college. So I just kept my pre-med curriculum and, unfortunately, had to take an extra year of Spanish after graduating because there were too few Spanish professors to teach the higher level courses. BTW, I have translated for Cuban immigrants as well, and noticed immediately that their accents were different. One of the words..... hi'gado. It was a comical conversation in Spanish between myself and the patient to figure out that they pronounce it "fee-ga-do." I was like, where did the F come from???? LOL.

I cannot STAND the fishy-puns in books. And why have the sea animals speak like a Disney cartoon?! Ugh.... Pet peeves in mermaid novels! I have been reading a few Young Adult books in mermaids just because they are so much faster to read while I was in med school. I can tell you that you would NOT like "Sea Change." Unless you want to read puns along with a gaggle of 13-15 year olds drinking alcohol all the time and talking about having sex. I'm an older female, so that was a big HELL-TO-THE-NO. Unfortunately, once I start something - book or movie - I have to finish it. :/ Also, the "Forgive My Fins" trilogy - a fussy, coming of age FOREVER-PUNS run-on gags. It was awful.   I read every part of the trilogy.   
And yes, I laugh at the fact that I hated it so much, but still read it - all three of them. I will PM you my Goodreads account and you can see what I liked. Like I said, I read EVERYTHING mermaid. LOL. I read everything from erotica/romance to teen, lol. Similarly, you can skip the Amber Garr Syrenka series. The character was sooo fickle, couldn't EVER make up her mind, and the errors in it just killed it for me. Good promise, poor execution. Again.... a trilogy.   

The ones I'm about to list are not from Teen or Young Adult books:
My favorites are 1) Shanna Abe - The Last Mermaid (made me cry it was soooo good! Very complex. Sweet.) It came out long before the throngs of mermaid books started pouring out. 2) Monstrous Beauty - the best new mermaid fable on the market as far as I'm concerned. Completely unique mermaid experience. Just written gorgeously. (Did I mention I LOVE ambiance? Well, I do. I have to have the descriptions to be fully immersed.) 3) The Mermaid's Knight by Jill Myles was an interesting retelling of a woman sent back in time as The Little Mermaid. She spends a surprising amount of time as a mermaid, which was nice. If you like that one, then also PC Cast has another one in her Goddess series - Goddess of the Sea. It was a fave until The Mermaid's Knight knocked it completely out of place because it's very similar in concept. 4) The SEABORNE trilogy - omg - a little more erotic but I could NOT put it down. 5) The Mermaid of Penperro was about 2 people who con others into thinking that a singer is a mermaid so that they can achieve something in the coastal town. Not really mermaid, but an interesting read. Of course,another one not really on my favorites list, but as an add-on for a different genre: there is a dark drama book called "In Great Waters." It's a lonely, abusive tale of a halfbreed of merman, stuggling to survive on land in medieval times. Sad, but I kept reading it despite how dark it was. It really painted an interesting picture of monarchs of the time.

If you want my erotica recommendations or YA recommendations, let me know, I would have to use a separate post, lol, because I think that this page is long enough. HAHAHA!
Glad to meet another kindred spirit when it comes to mermaid books!

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LiberLibelula In reply to Poetsiren [2016-03-02 11:52:02 +0000 UTC]

I like to think that once you know both English and Spanish, half your language problems become easier, due to how extended these two are around the world. To me, English has been a lifesaver, both in my career, culturally and in the most mundane things. And Cuban accent! It's nice to hear, but it's true that they pronounce a lot of words their own way and very... loose and fast. My boyfriend and I watched a hilarious zombie movie called "Juan de los Muertos" (seriously, if you like zombies, watch it!), and even though they spoke Spanish, we needed to download subtitles because we couldn't understand a thing XD

Uff. High-school mermaids. I don't know, I see mermaids as either underwater creepy vampires, or fae-like water creatures, much similar to Andersen's version. As long as they keep some differences with mainstream humans and their habits and attitude are adapted to their habitat and written in a believable way, I think I can take it. Just no fishy puns. I love silly puns, but when I'm joking, not when trying go get inmersed in a mermaid story.

I'm definitely writing down all your recommendations! Those are a lot of books *w* Probably I'll have to get them in English, but well, you can't have it all XD Thank you so much for this!

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Poetsiren In reply to LiberLibelula [2016-03-03 01:16:53 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I have alot of books on my Goodreads. Still a GREAT many more in the "want to read" lists, LOL! 

I think you would really like my first 3 recommendations that I listed. Glad to share!!

As for Spanish movies, my 2 favorites since having watched them in my Spanish Cinema class are  El día de la Bestia (which I remember hearing that it was actually illegal in Spain) and El espíritu de la colmena. (HA! Accents transfer when copying/pasting!) As a kid I LOVED horror. As an adult I'd rather watch action or romantic comedies. But I had to write a paper on El espíritu de la colmena, but I loved that move. I also had to write a paper on the movie "La Lengua de las Mariposas" and, although the movie wasn't a favorite, the paper I wrote WAS! Good memories!

Anywho, let me know what you end up reading!    

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LiberLibelula In reply to Poetsiren [2016-03-08 17:43:32 +0000 UTC]

I'm currently inmersed in the "Shatter me" saga by Tahereh Mafi. It has every topic from young romantic/dystopian stories, but somehow the writer manages to make everything new and appealing. It might be the only time I've been pleased with a romantic triangle (and I HATE them), because she does it in a quite realistic way that I love.

Spanish cinema is... tricky. It's only been about a decade since luckily some younger folks have been making their way with horror and comedy, and they've brough some fresh air in the panorama. They don't take themselves so seriously and that's great. Most of people really loathed Spanish movies because they were the most sperpentic and gut-revolting thing ever. Also, always focused in the same themes, which honestly weren't my cup of taste. But that was before. Now things are getting better!

I personally like the REC saga a lot, specially the third one. So crazy! (zombies) "El cuerpo" was a murder thriller, very exciting. "The orphanage" was cool too, but I recomment getting subtitles instead of putting the volume up, because the scares can leave you deaf. "Pagafantas" and "Tres bodas de más" were silly comedies, but I rolled on the floor with them. Some memorable scenes!

I haven't seen "El día de la Bestia", but it's like a classic. I still don't know what it's about... I should watch it. I don't remember it being illegal, perhaps there was some fuss about it, the same as with Dan Brown books. See, the kind that only fuels its popularity XD I haven't watched "El espíritu de la colmena", it's the first time I hear about it XD

Ugh. "La lengua de las mariposas". Screw that movie. They put it in my class when we were all about 10-11 years old and you can imagine our faces. I personally had a bad time watching it. Besides, we were too young to understand it, and now that I think back, it was clearly obvious that they were trying to put political ideas in our heads. I hate that. I wish I could wipe some scenes from my head >_<

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Poetsiren In reply to LiberLibelula [2016-03-09 03:50:08 +0000 UTC]

I have to keep reminding myself that these messages are on the public page, lol!
The "Pagafantas" and "Tres bodas de más" sound more like my type of movie. And I'm so sorry that you were forced to see Mariposas at such a young age! Ugh - indeed! And such content! That sounds horrible!
Unfortunately, our professor had a love of tragedies/dramas - every movie we got more and more depressed!! The only funny movie we saw was El dia de la Bestia - and I forced others who didn't even take the class to watch it on Halloween! The  very first few scenes set the tone for the movie - you CANNOT take it seriously! And remember, I'm not young, either, so when I took it in college, the professor made a big deal about how difficult it was to get even an illegal copy of the movie because it was banned in Spain, or something of the like. It's about the Devil trying to take his place on earth, and only these handful of people - particularly a magician and a priest - take him on. Very B-horror movie.
As for El Espiritu de la Colmena - it's about an innocent little girl's fascination with the Frankenstien monster and how she slips into an imaginary world during the Spanish Civil War. I was quite surprised with how much I liked this movie because I am quite particular when it comes to liking a drama. Alot of it felt like it was from her perspective, but I thought it was just a very pretty and well made movie and seemed like a portrayal of *mostly* subtle agendas due to the girl not entirely understanding her world. Plus, the emotional attachment to her sister was so touching! She was such a young and lovely little actress!

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LiberLibelula In reply to Poetsiren [2016-03-18 12:18:24 +0000 UTC]

Then I'll have to watch "El día de la Bestia" XDD Your professor had to be very cool to put those movies for your class. I'll also take note of "El espíritu de la colmena", because really, I had never heard of it. Though... are you sure it's not the same as "Pan's Labyrinth"? God, almost every Spanish movie is about the Civil War and sometimes they all get mixed in my head. (So tired of the Civil War, they're like a broken record about it) But if you say it's good, I'll watch it!
Thank you for the recommendations!

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Poetsiren In reply to LiberLibelula [2016-03-18 17:39:42 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome! As for "Pan's Labyrinth," I've never actually watched that movie, but from pictures I can tell you that it looks nothing like "El espíritu de la colmena." You never actually see the girl go to another world. You can tell what she's thinking - the little actress is SOOOO emotive! I just fell in love with the little thing! The movie has more of a feel like a dramatic period piece, good grief - hard to find a similar movie! - maybe more like "Atonement," if you've seen that one. Very rich, often quiet. I hated the end of "Atonement," so will never watch THAT again, lol, but it was pretty in the same way that  "El espíritu de la colmena" is pretty, I guess. (I have to have a happy ending, and I think that my Spanish professor contributed to that preference!! LOL!) In short, cuz I'm pretty sure I've monopolized your "Mermaid and Captain" comments section hahaha (sorry!), it IS good.  Maybe PM me when you get around to seeing those movies.   And we shall keep up that way, and a bit in goodreads!   New friend new friend!  

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LiberLibelula In reply to XDAylenYacanteDX [2016-01-16 09:21:17 +0000 UTC]

¡Gracias!

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LiberLibelula In reply to mlspot [2015-12-21 10:18:22 +0000 UTC]

¡Gracias! No, tranqui, no eres solo tú, de hecho era mi intención XD

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mlspot In reply to LiberLibelula [2015-12-21 17:47:50 +0000 UTC]

xD excelente, y no hay problema

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LiberLibelula In reply to Wyn-de-Weynilard [2015-12-17 08:05:07 +0000 UTC]

Aaaaaah Gracias Wyn, yo también te odio-amo, pinta más cosas maldita! Que no veo nada tuyo!

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Wyn-de-Weynilard In reply to LiberLibelula [2016-02-02 15:24:15 +0000 UTC]

Es que se me olvida subirlo a DA xDDD

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LiberLibelula In reply to Wyn-de-Weynilard [2016-02-03 14:34:53 +0000 UTC]

Pues súbelo muherrrr!

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LiberLibelula In reply to Helera [2015-12-17 08:06:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you Helera! I wonder what ginger would want to dye his hair, but as they say... do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, YOU ARE A PIRATE!!

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Helera In reply to LiberLibelula [2015-12-17 09:31:22 +0000 UTC]

ARRRRRRRR!

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LiberLibelula In reply to sandcastler [2015-12-17 08:06:31 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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LiberLibelula In reply to MGRESA [2015-12-17 08:06:41 +0000 UTC]

¡Muchas gracias!

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LiberLibelula In reply to windyautumnmoon [2015-12-17 08:06:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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