#Maite Carranza

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note: this has been translated into a number of other languages (just not English), including at least Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese. in all of the ones I can read the title is the same as the Spanish (i.e., The Desert of Ice).

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[daenerystargaryensgirlfriend]

Back when I was 11 I didn't even know what gay people were, but I remember wishing that Anaid and Clodia from War of Witches by Maite Carranza would just make out their way out of every fight they were having in the 1rst book.

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¡Holita! #miércoles y he comenzado con el propósito de libro por día, así que en estas semanas tendréis #reseñas seguro. En este caso, vamos con 'Caminos de libertad' de Maite Carranza publicada @grupoedebe Espero que os guste. 😊💜. . 📜𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖔📜. . Alexia es una adolescente más, chicos que le gustan, las clases, sus amigos. Sin embargo, cuando está preparando el viaje que hará en verano con su grupo de scouts recibe una oferta que no podrá rechazar: el chico que le gusta le pide que le acompañe a la acampada en los Pirineos con los lobatos. Y aquí comienza la tragedia, los chicos y una historia familiar que desentrañar. La novela que presentamos hoy aquí tiene mucho de muchas cosas. Por una parte, se trata de una novela contemporánea Young adult que nos cuenta la historia de Alexia y cómo tiene que lidiar con un triángulo amoroso; pero también, nos encontramos ante una historia no muy común sobre la Guerra Civil: cómo huían los Republicanos. . En este sentido, vemos que la obra más allá de lo meramente adolescente y se atreve con una reflexión sobre la libertad y qué supuso esa huída para quienes tuvieron que llevarla a cabo. Eso sí, también encontraremos los temas relacionados con la adolescencia, más típicos, como el primero amor, pero también más complejos como el acoso.. (3/5) 📚📚. . 🧐¿Os gustan las novelas que nos hacen reflexionar sobre el pasado? ¿Cómo lleváis los temas adolescentes? 🧐. . 💙Link de la reseña completa en la Bio 💙. . Recordad, en el blog encontraréis ideas sobre #comics, #videojuegos y #libros. ✒📚 Reseñas, reflexiones y las peticiones que me hagáis sobre narrativa de #ahora, de #antes y del #futuro. . #pirineos #contemporanea #guerracivil #bookstagramespaña #librosrecomendados #thriller #books #booklover #autores #recomiendoautores #viviresleer #yoopino #bookstagram #librosymaslibros #librosrecomendados #booksnifer (en Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmb--qvj8LM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Relecturas 1

Lo primero siempre son los clásicos y en este caso, los cuentos de Disney son un buen lugar por el que empezar. Sin embargo, todos sabemos lo que está mal con ellos, por lo que centrarme en criticar que la bella durmiente solo aparece durante 17 minutos en su propia adaptación cinematográfica o que Blancanieves hace las tareas domésticas a cambio de vivienda no tendría gran interés, porque eso es…

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my favourite book of all time

is a book that LITERALLY NO ONE KNOWS

It’s called “Midsummer Night’s Magic” (or something like that, I’m not sure about the translation) by Maite Carranza

It’s about a girl (Marina) who gets involved with fae and goes to Ireland instead of her sick sister (Angela) to save her from a cruel queen’s spell. 

Not like Shakespeare’s play, obviously, but still very good. 10/10

AND GUESS WHAT

it has an enemies to lovers AND the “there’s only one bed” prompt without being s/xual in any ways.

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Recensione: Il clan della lupa di Maite Carranza

Una ragazza. Una profezia. Una guerra millenaria. Dai Pirenei alla Sicilia, le streghe sono tornate. Trama: Le cose non sono sempre quel che sembrano. Questa amara verità è ben nota ad Anaïd Tsinoulis, che ha quattordici anni ma è talmente piccola e magra da dimostrarne dieci; e quel che è peggio, sua madre Selene è una vera bellezza, sensuale e provocante. Certo, Anaïd è intelligente, ma a che…

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Todas hemos tenido una infancia vigilada, una adolescencia traumática y una juventud difícil.

“La guerra de las brujas: El clan de la loba” - Maite Carranza

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bestiee

Besides Ms Aveyard work (wich we all wordship) what other sagas or stand alones YA did you liked? And what about those you didn't like?

A saga with similar vibes to RQ I would say The Maze Runner, I used to live for those books. Kinda different... I would say the Shatter Me series (Kenji my beloved💜) I don't read a lot of YA standalones but one that stuck with me for years and I wish the author had kept writing similar stuff (she didn't 😭) is Magia de una noche de verano by Maite Carranza (A Summer's night magic, it's a wordplay of the Shakespeare play but in spanish) The vibes are extremely similar to Holly Black's Cruel Prince trilogy, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to find those last year.

I'm an easy-to-please reader and I tend to be generous in my mental ratings most of the time so if I simply disliked a book, I forget about it. Now, if it personally wronged me, my dog, and my family, and it has THE AUDACITY of being popular I nourish a grudge toward it more toxic than buried radioactive waste lmao. My cursed trinity is: the select*on, the hung*r games, anna and the fr*nch kiss.

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2 and 8 for the book ask game! ☺️

Thanks for the ask! ✨

2. Second hand or brand new?

I like second hand books a lot, but I have nothing against brand new ones! I buy brand new books a lot, but the second hand ones, especially when they were gifted to me, have a special meaning for me ✨

8. What’s your favorite “elusive” series? (i.e., the series that most people haven’t heard of)

I don't know if it's really elusive, but I haven't really heard people talking about War of The Witches by Maite Carranza!

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note: confusingly, despite as far as I can tell only being a translation of the first book in the trilogy, the English edition takes the title of the series as a whole (La Guerra de las Brujas, as seen on the Spanish omnibus edition) as its title.

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2, 4, 11 and 15? 👀✨💓

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2. have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who?

Academically not because I base my own thinking in what I read from other authors and from other opinions/commentary on them and from there, I pick and chose what I agree on and to what extent.

With literature writers, it's probably the same. I share some thoughts with some authors but I don't think I can say there's someone who thinks just like me and that's good. I don't really think about the authors I read in those terms, more like what do they have to say about art, life, society...(not the other way around)

4. do you like your name?  is there another name you think would fit you better?

I do really like my name! I think it's pretty, and I like the meaning (with Laura basically equivalent to victorious), though I don't know if I'll live up to it 😅 also, not fit better, but I like Layla though becauss it sounds kind of similarbut the meaning (night) is lovely, so I went by that name for some time (hence why it's also on my bio here)

11. describe your ideal day.

(This got LONG omg)

I wake up early but not terribly early (let's say 8am). I have a nice breakfast with tea, fruits and eggs or fresh bread. It's a nice day, either a cool spring day or a warn autumn day. There's sun in the sky but it does not itch. I spend the morning in downtown Madrid, probably. Other city can do if I'm traveling obviously. It's not a weekend. I walk a lot in the park (or do some sightseeing if in any other city), then visit a museum preferably classic art. I might visit some cool place like a cathedral. Then I meet with a loved one for lunch. It might be a friend, but it can be a date too. We have a good meal in some cool place, preferably one they recommend. Then we go around walking, maybe do some shopping, maybe go to a nearby place that I haven't seen yet. We go to a market, smell the fruits and the flowers and feel the sun and the people. We engage with whatever is going on: street performers, touristic tours, visit houses, go to the forest, play games, feed birds, go to a spa... Then have dinner in this new town/part of town, somewhere we have never been in. Then we go clubbing a bit, have a couple beers but not too much and we dance and laugh and then we walk the streets at night together till sunrise surprise us.

15. five most influential books over your lifetime.

Hmmm this is hard but I think these will do:

-The Grimm Fairy Tales / The Bible for kids : I know I'm cheating here, but keep up with me. Both of these deeply impressioned me asa child. My mom read me tales, and as soon as I could read, I read them too. These two were beautiful illustrated editions that I still love with all my heart.

-1984 by George Orwell: nothing much to say here. Impactful in many ways, possibly shaped my sociogical thinking in ways I'm not even fully aware of

-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: look this book TERRIFIED me because 17 year old me really saw herself reflected in Emma rip

-American Gods by Neil Gaiman: shaped/put into words a lot of my own views of how systems of belief work and what faith means and what ideas are made of before I was able to truly express such things. Plus, it's a fantasy book with adventures so!

-Thirteen reasons why by Jay Asher: not getting into the author or the adaptation which I have not eatched but this book genuinely made me think of how what we do affects others.

And I'm adding a short story: The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Honorable mentions: Palabras envenenadas by Maite Carranza (first narrative without dialogues I ever read, a sordid ya about abuse and there's a sentence about how words shape us as humans that still haunts me to thai day), Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (another terrifying book and possibly the one that sparkes my interest in writing characters that simply aren't good people and also unreliable narrators!), A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (blew my mind away around at the same time as 1984), The red tent by Anita Diamant (read it last year and went straight to one of my favorite books ever), The prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (I WILL defend this book to my last breath ok. How can somethinf be so famous and yet so misunderstood is just), Antología poética del Grupo del 27 ed. Vicente Gaos for editorial Catedra (got me interested in poetry for real)

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Chocolate, coffee, Victoria sponge, marble, lemon? 💫

Chocolate: I do, but not when it is in a crazy way

Coffee: El desierto de hielo by Maite Carranza 

Victoria Sponge: a watch and a ring 

Marble: I like the day after 6pm 

Lemon: uhmmm, I will think about it and then I will tell you cause right now I don't know what to say hahaha

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Random Book Recommendations #1

Adult 🌷 Circe by Madeline Miller 🌷 The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 🌷 The Power by Naomi Alderman 🌷 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman 🌷 Vicious by V.E. Schwab 🌷 The Shining by Stephen King 🌷 Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 🌷 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 🌷 Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot 🌷 Atonement by Ian McEwan 🌷 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 🌷 The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce

Young Adult 🌹 Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor 🌹 The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden 🌹 Inkheart by Cornelia Funke 🌹 Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff 🌹 Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce 🌹 Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 🌹 Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell 🌹 Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

Middle Grade 🌻 Coraline by Neil Gaiman 🌻 Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend 🌻 War of the Witches by Maite Carranza

Poetry 🥀 Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti 🥀 Collected Poems by Edith Södergran 🥀 Collected Poems by Karin Boye 🥀 Wishing for Birds by Elisabeth Hewer

Short Stories 🌼 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson 🌼 The Language of Thorns (collection) by Leigh Bardugo 🌼 To Kill a Child by Stig Dagerman

Classics 💐 Don Quijote by Miguel Cervantes 💐 Dracula by Bram Stoker 💐 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 💐 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 💐 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 💐 Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg 💐 Grimms’ Fairy Tales 💐 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 💐 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Graphic Novels/Manga 🌸 Memories of Emanon by Kenji Tsuruta 🌸 The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill 🌸 Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoët 🌸 My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata

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War of the Witches

I’m really shocked that apparently, one of my favourite book series as a teen, just hasn’t lifted off in English. It’s originally in Spanish, so it also had to be translated to Dutch.

The English translation hasn’t even been finished if my meagre internet search is correct, unless the book called War of the Witches published in 2009 is the whole trilogy. I doubt it.

So a summary about what it is:

War of the Witches

Book 1: De clan van de wolvin (clan/coven of the (female) wolf)

Book 2: De ijsswoestijn (The ice desert)

Book 3: De vloek van Odi (The curse of Odi)

(We have an older print of them but I couldn’t find them. Which is a testament to how terrible I am at finding things, because they are completely orange, blue, and green.)

I think it’s safe to say that this is my sister’s favourite book series. She has stolen the books from our bookcase once years ago because she decided they could be hers.

A summary! Even though it has been literal years since I’ve read them. 

Pros: 

Interesting fantasy elements

Lots of focus on the women, as it’s about a daughter and a mother, and the Omar witches are only women so they get more focus (there are male characters, and there is a romance subplot, but that one picks up starting in book 2 if I remember well)

It draws on Iberian mythology so it’s nice to either learn about it or spot it if you know about it already

Cons: 

Can be slow at times, especially if you’re interested in the fantasy element but have to read more about the personal growth Anaíd is going through (and for that, you first need to learn about her insecurities)

Power-ups that don’t feel like they came at a price

Apparently the English translation has the wrong word translated here and there (Powers growing in “size” rather than “strength” etc.)

Book 1: the coven of the wolves (The war of the witches in English)

We follow 14-year-old Anaíd as she searches for her mother, who has disappeared. Her grandmother has passed away about a year ago, so she heads over to one of her mother’s friend and her school teacher: Elena and stays there for a while. Elena has, like, 5 or 7 sons, so it’s a full house. Anaíd also has a crush on Elena’s eldest!

Anaíd finally learns the she, her mother, and her late grandmother are witches, and she learns a bit about it from the small coven she is a part of: the coven of the wolf. Anaíd visits a sister coven on Sicilië (Italy) to get initiated as a witch (her own coven is REALLY small) and we learn more about witches and their history.

There are witches (Omar) who accept the cycle of life and death (they live in covens) and there are witches (Odish) that choose to be immortal, at a price (to quote FMA: equivalent exchange, they will, um, take life energy from other people by consuming their blood. Historical figure Elizabeth Bathory who bathed in the blood of young girls is imagined as one of those immortal witches, so yay for using real world history and applying fantasy to it). These two witches are, as the trilogy title says, at war. The Omar hide from the Odish until the CHOSEN ONE, the witch with flaming red hair will appear to put an end to the war. (It’s a prophecy).

You can guess who has red hair...

HA, wrong, Anaíd’s mother is the one with red hair! And the Odish found her and THAT’S why she disappeared; they’ve abducted her, and as Anaíd becomes stronger as a witch, she becomes more determined to save her mother, who obviously is very important to Anaíd. Will she be able to find her mother?! (Dun dun dunnnnn who knows)

(I think that’s a pretty good spoiler-ish free summary)

Book 2: The Ice desert

We get a more in-depth look on the Omar and the Odish, as we learn a bit more about what the “war” was like (there’s not much actual fighting, so consider it as being a civillian in a war: you’re hiding in bunkers etc. while your life could end if you’re in the wrong place). We learn about a few Odish witches, we learn more about the Omar, as Selene finally tells Anaíd the stories that she (and her mother Demeter) has kept from Anaíd for years. The Odish stand alone, but the Omar stand as a group, which is why it’s important that the CHOSEN ONE has the support of her fellow Omar witches, of the other witches in her coven--and Anaíd is in that coven, too, and a very talented witch! 

In the present, as Anaíd learns about the witch stuff, she is also finally being noticed by her crush, Rock! Unfortunately, her mother and she are in hiding, but it’s a good thing there’s phones and internet, right? 

I also think the interpretation of the prophecy is tackled? It’s a world-building book that personally is my favourite. (My mother didn’t quite get past this book though, so it can be kind of slow in parts.) 

Book 3: The curse of Odi

O’s prophecy (mother of Om and Od, and Om is the mother to Oma and Odi, respectively the mothers of all Omar and Odish) isn’t the ONLY prophecy, though. Odi has made a prophecy of her own, a curse as you will, that shows that the actions of the CHOSEN ONE aren’t as simple. Being the CHOSEN ONE and doing the thing your prophecized to do will have a personal price and I really enjoyed that personal struggle as Selene was without Anaíd again, because they were separated again.

How will the war be put to an end? Obviously the Odish aren’t waiting for the CHOSEN ONE to stroll up to them and put an end to their reign of terror, so that will be answered too!

(I hope I kept it away from too spoilery, but anyway, here is the good reads link:)

>>Good Reads link<<

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Reseña y resumen: Prohibido llover los sábados

Saludos, mi querida audiencia. Mi nombre es M. C. y me encuentro aquí refiriéndome a ustedes por primera vez sobre mi resumen y análisis del libro “Prohibido llover los sábados” de Maite Carranza e ilustrado por Rafael Sañudo.

Este libro nos relata la historia de Eric, quien, aburrido en una tarde lluviosa de sábado, decide llamar a su amiga Francis para hablarle de las dos maravillosas ideas que acaba de tener. Primero: contar cuentos por teléfono. Y segundo: “prohibir que lluevan los días sábados”.

Centrándonos en la primera idea, su cuento trata de Ernesto, un niño de una baja estatura y con “docenas de hermanos” (como especifica Eric), al cual, un día su madre manda a comprar un ingrediente para completar la comida que estaba preparando. Durante su camino a la tienda, Ernesto se distrae jugando con sus amigos y, al recordar el recado de su madre, corre rápidamente a la tienda que ya estaba cerrando. Tanta era su prisa, que atraviesa la calle sin percatarse del auto que iba a gran velocidad, el cual, segundos después lo atropella. Tan solo instantes después se encuentra en el hospital; le realizan tres operaciones y, al despertar, no recuerda absolutamente nada de como era su vida antes del accidente.

Entre los médicos del hospital deciden sortearlo para ver quien se quedaría con nuestro protagonista. Al final, un doctor junto a su esposa deciden cuidarlo y criarlo como si fuera un hijo propio. Ernesto crece y se vuelve un hombre rico, ya que su padre adoptivo también lo era. Consigue trabajo de, como menciona el texto: “hombre de negocios, de esos que andan con maletín y una agenda y que siempre andan atareados”.

Un día que Ernesto tenía una cita urgente con un árabe, sufrió un accidente, el cual le hizo recordar todo sobre como era su vida antes: del recado de su madre, y quienes eran su madre y su padre. De pronto, se dio una palmada en la frente; “… ¡Jo! Tenía que darse prisa si no quería llegar tarde. Entró en la primera tienda que encontró y salió de la misma al cabo de cinco minutos, como un cohete.”

Al llegar, su padre le llama la atención diciendo que, “estas no son horas de llegar”, y su madre dice que lleva ya veinte años fuera de casa. Por último, le entrega a su madre el azafrán (que es el ingrediente que le faltaba para completar su comida), termina de cocinar, y Ernesto se queda impaciente esperando a la hora de comer. “… y colorín colorado, este cuento se ha acabado.”

Francis lo termina de escuchar, y le repite que ella podría haberlo hecho mucho mejor, y se prepara para crear un cuento, esta vez, de princesas y castillos, como a ella le gustan. Llama a su amiga Tania para contarle su cuento, que, si ignoramos el hecho de que tenía distintos nombres, personajes, época y ambiente; contaba exactamente el mismo cuento con idéntica trama.

Tania termina de escuchar a Francis, y decide que ella también podría contar un cuento: se decide para llamar a su primo Julián y contarle su maravilloso cuento sobre naves, el espacio y el futuro. Julián la escucha y queda fascinado y, al igual que los anteriores personajes, decide que él también podría contarle un cuento a alguien por teléfono.

Julián llama a la casa de Eric (sí, el mismo Eric del principio), y le cuenta su maravillosa y “original” idea de contar un cuento por teléfono. Eric queda petrificado por la coincidencia y estaba a punto de desmayarse, además no sólo por eso, sino que también, a través de los amigos corrió el chiste de “prohibir que lluevan los sábados”, lo cual también le cuenta Julián a Eric; finalmente, Julián termina de contarle su cuento sobre el despertador que se llamaba Pedro, el cual estaba resfriado, a su amigo Eric. “… y colorín colorado, este cuento se ha acabado.”

Mi opinión final sobre este relato es que lo recomiendo, sobre todo porque no tiene una duración tan larga (88 páginas y de letra no tan grande), y es ideal para leer en una aburrida tarde de sábado (como hice en mi caso). También podría considerarse leerlo entre cuatro amigos, y que cada uno cuente la versión del cuento de cada uno de los personajes: Eric, Francis, Tania y Julián; pero esto ya es sólo mi recomendación.