viernes, 22 de abril de 2016

"Nosotros después de las doce" en Barcelona - Recordando a Heima

 

Quería escribir esta entrada mañana, con tiempo y tranquilidad, pero la euforia se ha adueñado de mí y he caído en la tentación antes de lo esperado.
Hace unos días anunciaron que Laia Soler presentaría su nuevo libro, Nosotros después de las doce, en Barcelona. Todo el mundo que me conoce bien sabe que desde que leí Heima es hogar en islandés ya no he vuelto a ser la misma, pues éste tuvo un gran impacto en mí. Habrá quien piense que soy una exagerada, una pelota tal vez.
Hasta que la editorial anunció la presentación, tenía 100% claro que me compraría este libro en Sant Jordi, así que hice un cambio de planes y decidí comprarlo en la misma ocasión; craso error. He llegado con una hora de margen y cuando he entrado al FNAC me he quedado helada al ver la cola que había para entrar en la sala. Y yo todavía sin mi libro. Lo sé, soy una n00b de las presentaciones de libros; al fin y al cabo, ésta era la primera a la que asistía (nunca había sentido tal aprecio por un autor español y creo, sinceramente, que Sir J.R.R. Tolkien no saldría de su tumba para invitarme a un piscolabis y discutir la Batalla de las Lágrimas Innumerables conmigo).
Finalmente, he conseguido llevarme el último ejemplar disponible y he ido, prácticamente corriendo, a la sala de presentación. Ya habían abierto las puertas y, como era previsible, no quedaban asientos libres.


Había mucha gente y el ambiente ha llegado a ser un pelín agobiante, pero ha sido genial. Me ha hecho mucha ilusión poder ver a la autora en persona y me ha hecho arder en deseos de empezar ya el viaje a Valira. Por supuesto, he traído a Heima para que me lo firmara también, y le he comentado un poco mi experiencia con él. Se podría decir que, ahora mismo, mi vida se divide en un antes y un después desde que leí este libro; me interesé por los países nórdicos y sus lenguas, empecé a leer más sobre Islandia, descubrí música que nunca imaginé que acabaría escuchando apasionadamente (véase Lockerbie o Kaleo) y lo más importante para mí: me hizo ver una lejana, aunque potente, luz en mi futuro. Me explico: gracias a esta pasión, me puse en contacto con el traductor (del islandés al español) de la autora islandesa Yrsa Sigurðardóttir en busca de información sobre cómo y dónde podía aprender el idioma BIEN; muy amablemente, me informó sobre el programa de dos años de islandés como lengua B en la universidad de Reykjavík. Boom, una luz. En cuanto vi esto, tuve claro adonde llevaría mi vida después de la carrera.
¿Después de todo, cuál es el causante de todo este hilo de sucesos? Un libro. Un libro que me entretuvo, que me hizo sentir, que me hizo llorar y, sobre todo, que me hizo soñar. Un libro que, algún día, voy a enseñar al mundo cuando me pregunten por qué he decidido este camino para mí. Éste es mi lífsandi más preciado.
Takk.

jueves, 31 de marzo de 2016

Soleil themed Easter Week 2016

So yeah, I've spend this whole Easter Week in Fuko's house!
We planned to stay together during these holidays so we could start sewing our cosplays for the Barcelona's Comic Con (May) and our week turned out being really busy. I went to Manresa on Tuesday afternoon and we went to buy some fabrics to start our first cosplays. 
The last time I went to Fukoland to make cosplays together we left all of our essential sewing stuff in our students flat, so we just cut our patterns and stayed in front of them like

Unlike that past unfortunate day, we DID have our sewing stuff this week. Everything was fine. Except from the fact the tape measure was missing. Due to that dumb fail, we had to draw our patterns in the most creative ways, and that's how I ended up drawing my own body shape.


After 3 nights sewing from midnight to 5 a.m./6 a.m., we almost finished our first cosplays. Here you have some pics:

Fuko's progress
My progress

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On Saturday, we celebrated Fuko's birthday with Jud, Aya, Patis and Eva. Following Jud's advice, we did the 125Q Hogwarts house test. Patis and I were sorted into Slytherin, Aya was sorted into Hufflepuff and Eva was sorted into Gryffindor. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Once we had dinner, we went to the Soleil room and had some drinks and shots and, later, we started playing Slenderman Sanatorium. We actually recorded it so we could post it in some days.

apology letter begins

Dear girls, I swear I tested the screen-recording program before that night, and it worked. I don't know what we did wrong, but the video files only shows my main background while we shout nonsense things. I'm so sorry.

end of the apology letter




jueves, 24 de marzo de 2016

February Book Challenge

 

Hi there! Last month I decided to join a bookstagram challenge hosted by @celinereads and @seth.the.reader. I didn't take all the pics the challenge asked for, but I still had a great time doing it! 
These are the pictures I used:

Day 1 - February TBR

Day 2 - Pink books

Day 3 - Books you want to reread

Day 4 - Book boyfriend: Guðjón

Day 5 - Currently reading

Day 6 - Favourite romance (this is not a romance at all but whatever)

Day 7 - Over 600 pages (hope this counts)

Day 8 - A book that broke your heart

Day 10 - Favorite OTP (Beleg & Túrin)

Day 11 - Happy book(s)

Day 12 - Cute cover

Day 13 - Book & Flowers

Day 15 - Favourite author

Day 17 - Romantic cover

Day 18 - Book in fave color

Day 19 - Favourite Book Spines

Day 20 - Book & Bookmarks (I also use my fave postcards as bookmarks)

Day 21 - Favourite Book Quotes

Day 24 - Long Title

Day 25 - Creative title

Day 26 - Books under 200 pages

I really hope to join more bookstagram/booklr monthly challenges! Have you read any of these books?

miércoles, 23 de marzo de 2016

Japan Weekend Barcelona 2016

So yeah, last weekend there was the Japan Weekend con in Barcelona. Saturday tickets were sold out quickly and we hadn't been able to get ours, but thanks to Alek (Fuko's friend) we were able to buy them.
SATURDAY


We woke up at 8. 
We put our cosplays on.
I lost one of my elvish ears.


After one hour looking for the lost ear, we went to the con. When we arrived, we went for a walk and Fuko bought a Love Live! energy drink -which happened to be surprisingly useful later- and we met some friends (Patis, Miki, Aya...). 
I don't know why, I hated how I looked that day. The make-up didn't end up looking how I expected, the wig was messed up and all the photos turned out horrible. I've already seen some photos people took me and omg, I look ugly as fuck and so done with the world. Also, I brought a Silmaril to the con so I could have some photos holding it (it was a Fluorite ball, expensive). So a random photographer came to take us some photos; after that, he asked me to borrow it and, when I gave it to him, he moved his hand out and 
the Silmaril fell and got broken into tiny pieces.


Fortunately, the photographer was so nice that he decided to give me the money I paid for the Silmaril back, so it's fine. But seeing my dear gem dying so tragically made me sad.

After having dinner with some friends, we went to see the cosplay contest with Aya, Patis, Sora and Kai. When a Miku Hatsune got on the stage to dance a Vocaloid song we all expected something typical like "World is mine". It wasn't that one.

Luka Luka Night Fever

Next to that one, a Len Kagamine dressed with the Senbonzakura outfit got on the stage carrying a leak. He started dancing Levan Polkka. Then, the music stopped and another song started playing.

Luka Luka Night Fever

Following this performance, it was PriPara's turn. A Sophie Houjo got on the stage. Since Fuko is a huge PriPara fan, she got very excited. We all thought a song from PriPara would start playing. We were wrong.

Luka Luka Night Fever

Literally all of us

SUNDAY

We had great expectations for this day because we were going to meet more friends who didn't get tickets for Saturday. Also, Eva was coming with us and she was going to vlog the whole day. When she was finished doing her make-up, she got her camera and started vlogging...until 1 minute later, when the camera ran out of battery.

Eva: Yeah, the camera is new and I didn't charge its battery before.


It wasn't a big deal since Fuko has a portable charger and we could charge the camera's battery during our journey towards the con.
We arrived at the con and while Eva and Fuko were getting ready at the bathroom, I was waiting for my Cornelia (Patis). 


Since our friend Aya was going to participate at the karaoke contest, we sat in front of the stage for a while. As we expected, she won the contest! (She really sings beautifully)
After that, we watched Kiseki Idols' (a Love Live! cosplay group) performance. Fuko and Alek were cosplaying Choromatsu and Osomatsu from Osomatsu-san, so they just stayed in front to the stage yelling and dancing.


After that, I went to Burger King to have lunch with Fuko, Aya, Jud, Eva, Cris and Patis at 5 pm. We left early because Fuko had to study and we had nothing to do at the con anymore.

Here are some photos I edited from the con  





miércoles, 9 de marzo de 2016

♒ [LUOLATTE] ♒ I'm a great student. (no)

Today I skipped classes so I could sew my cosplay for the Barcelona's Japan Weekend (this weekend) so yeah, I'm a great student. I only have a few things left of the dress I'm sewing now. In case you don't know what cosplay is, is the Halloween version of Elyon Portrait (W.I.T.C.H.). 


Tomorrow I'll make the spikes of the dress and the leaves crown. I'm very excited to cosplay her for the first time, I've been a W.I.T.C.H. freak since I was a little girl. Also, my friend Patis is going to cosplay Cornelia with me so it's great, we have the bff squad after all. 

This is the final cosplay schedule for this upcoming weekend:

The left ones are Fuko's cosplays and the ones on the right are mine.

Dream of Mettaton 


martes, 8 de marzo de 2016

◢ Book Review ◣ This is where it ends

This is where it ends - Marieke Nijkamp





LUO TALKS:
I've just finished reading this book and I'm literally out of words to say. I knew what this book was about before adding it in my tbr list, I knew it couldn't have a happily ever after because it's basically incompatible with the main plot. I just found it interesting because this kind of tragedy doesn't happen in my country (fortunately) and news barely talk about it when there's a shooting at an American high school. 
I felt very attached with some of the characters but I just felt indifferent towards Claire; her point of view was a pain for me, and I just wanted to fly to what the next character had to tell. For some reason, I didn't hate Tyler; I just think his loneliness beat him.
I have to say, all that happened through these pages felt just real. I was really scared when the shooter started killing people around him and the characters kept seeing their friends die. Also, some students tried to inform about their situation on Twitter and the press just kept tweeting them...like, they're desperately asking for help, what the fuck's going on with you. Furthermore, there was a point of view of a student who skipped classes that day and wrote her thoughts in her blog and her readers didn't seem happy at all to see that she skipped classes that day and that she wasn't through the same hell the other students were.
The end  itself was what hurt me the most, I think; imagining all this people remembering the lost ones.
Before finishing this review, I'd like to share a quote of this book:

When we reach the first floor, the hallways are empty. There are only the bodies and the bloodstains and the screams that haunt the school. On our way to the main entrance, we pass the doors to the auditorium, which are wide open now. The seats are empty.


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sábado, 5 de marzo de 2016

ILLUMINAE (The ILLUMINAE Files #1) ☁ READING APPRECIATION POST ☁

I started ILLUMINAE in my birthday and I finished it a while ago; I could say it certainly became one of my favourite books! Let me say that this is not an appreciation post of the book (I'm going to write this one soon) but a reading appreciation of the book. This means I'm going to show you my experience with it. It has some pictures I took while reading it, a drawing I made of the main characters (Kady & Ezra), some Goodreads updates that reflect my feelings and thoughts about it and there's also a song I ended up associating with the book plot (mainly with its end at the Alexander). 

http://luo-tenenbaum.tumblr.com/post/139424432724/illuminae-reading-appreciation-post