<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Books @ bloggingburt.blog-city.com</title><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Books) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 bloggingburt.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:12:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Books @ bloggingburt.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Mia Couto shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/mia_couto_shortlisted_for_the_international_impac_dublin_lit.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/mia_couto_shortlisted_for_the_international_impac_dublin_lit.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mia%5Fcouto%5Fshortlisted%5Ffor%5Fthe%5Finternational%5Fimpac%5Fdublin%5Flit</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Every time a chance presents itself to mention Mia Couto is a happy time for me. I just found out that Mia Couto (find my several postings on the Categories, left of the screen) has been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2]]></description><category>impac award</category><category>dublin</category><category>africa</category><category>mozambique</category><category>mia couto</category></item><item><title>Albert Jacquard&apos;s Vision</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/albert_jacquards_vision.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/albert_jacquards_vision.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=albert%5Fjacquards%5Fvision</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Human rights should be perceived as the consequence of our lucidity on the specific characteristics of our species. This lucidity makes us understand that we are the only living beings capable of becoming people, in other words of being conscious of]]></description><category>france</category><category>albert jacquard</category><category>humanist</category></item><item><title>Discovery by Sophia Mello Breyner</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/discovery_by_sophia_mello_breyner.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/discovery_by_sophia_mello_breyner.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=discovery%5Fby%5Fsophia%5Fmello%5Fbreyner</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sophia, one of my favourite poets of all time is dead, but not her verse. Here goes the Discovery, that I have discovered at Poetry International Web, a serious poetry website with the added advantage of dual language, the original and the English tr]]></description><category>sophia mello breyner</category></item><item><title>Harold Pinter&apos;s Nobel Acceptance Speech</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/harold_pinters_nobel_acceptance_speech.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/harold_pinters_nobel_acceptance_speech.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=harold%5Fpinters%5Fnobel%5Facceptance%5Fspeech</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Everybody knew he was going to be harsh but not as much as it ended up being. What a speech to leave so many speechless. The Speech/Lecture is very long but I just had to have it on bloggingburt.&nbsp; ( &copy; THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2005)&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description><category>harold pinter</category><category>nobel</category></item><item><title>That day nobody died.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/that_day_nobody_died.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/that_day_nobody_died.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=that%5Fday%5Fnobody%5Fdied</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["That day nobody died".This is the first sentence of the new book by Jose Saramago, a recent Nobel for Literature. Unfortunately I think the English translation is still not available, but it will be soon. The whole book revolves around thi]]></description><category>daniel ablitt</category><category>saramago</category><category>death</category><category>death clock</category></item><item><title>Mia Couto and the Exercise of Modesty (II)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/mia_couto_and_the_exercise_of_modesty_ii.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/mia_couto_and_the_exercise_of_modesty_ii.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mia%5Fcouto%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fexercise%5Fof%5Fmodesty%5Fii</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><category>mozambique</category><category>mia couto</category></item><item><title>Asterix, the terrorist</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/asterix_the_terrorist.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/asterix_the_terrorist.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=asterix%5Fthe%5Fterrorist</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Asterix, the French and European hero is the greatest comic: creative, informing, funny and so many other things that make it a must on any Kiddy bookshelf. The hero embodies much of the European way of life, the resistance to give in to other powers]]></description><category>uderzo</category><category>goscinny</category><category>asterix</category></item><item><title>Harold Pinter! Another strike at the U.S.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/harold_pinter_another_strike_at_the_us.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/harold_pinter_another_strike_at_the_us.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=harold%5Fpinter%5Fanother%5Fstrike%5Fat%5Fthe%5Fus</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Apparently, CNN didn't quite get the Nobel favorite on their list a couple of days ago. Harold Pinter is a great, great choice, the Nobel shouldn't be awarded to any lesser writers than Pinter. This year's winner keeps the Nobel in the right track, L]]></description><category>literature</category><category>harold pinter</category><category>nobel</category></item><item><title>Literature Nobel goes to...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/literature_nobel_goes_to.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/literature_nobel_goes_to.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=literature%5Fnobel%5Fgoes%5Fto</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This year's contenders according to CNN:Philip Roth (US)Joyce Carol Oates (US)Margaret Atwood (Canada)Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)Ali Ahmad Said (Syria)Ko Un (Korea)Tomas Transtromer (Sweden)I would probably go with Philip Roth, "his speech verball]]></description><category>roth</category><category>literature</category><category>philip</category><category>nobel</category></item><item><title>The Princess by Chekhov</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_princess_by_chekhov.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_princess_by_chekhov.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fprincess%5Fby%5Fchekhov</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have recently read a shocking and impressive short story by Chekhov, The Princess. This brief story is so revealling on the causes of the Russian revolution and on how the classes were divided in Russia back then, that I would certainly recommend i]]></description><category>the princess</category><category>tintoretto</category><category>chekhov</category></item><item><title>Underground by Paul Auster</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/underground_by_paul_auster.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/underground_by_paul_auster.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=underground%5Fby%5Fpaul%5Fauster</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I love Paul Auster both as a personality and as a writer. He is one of those people that I could hear for hours and hours. I must remind myself to mention his film "Smoke", a film I was not able to forget ever since I watched it years ago.]]></description><category>paul</category><category>auster</category></item><item><title>Jim Moore</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/jim_moore.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/jim_moore.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=jim%5Fmoore</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Some good things happen in Minneapolis. Jim Moore is one of them. I've read an article on the Star Tribune (which is now unfortunately not available anymore because they remove all articles older than 3 weeks, I wish I had copied it) about Jim Moore]]></description><category>jim</category><category>moore</category></item><item><title>1082 books!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/1082_books.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/1082_books.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=1082%5Fbooks</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I can't help but mentioning Penguin's Classics collection being sold at Amazon for $8000. It includes 1082 books, an estimated decade to read them, if you read one a week. I've heard an interview with the Penguin person who came up with this idea on]]></description><category>penguin</category><category>collection</category><category>classics</category></item><item><title>The House of a Thousand Doors</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_house_of_the_thousand_doors.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_house_of_the_thousand_doors.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fhouse%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fthousand%5Fdoors</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Casa das Mil Portas (The House of a Thousand Doors) is probably the coolest writing project I have seen online in the longest time. The person who conceived it and made it work is Nemo Nox, the first Brasilian blogger and the most versatile cultura]]></description><category>house</category><category>nemo nox</category></item><item><title>The Top 10 books for expectant parents</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_top_10_books_for_expectant_parents.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_top_10_books_for_expectant_parents.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ftop%5F10%5Fbooks%5Ffor%5Fexpectant%5Fparents</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For Levi:1. Your Pregnancy Week by Week  ****2. What to Expect When You're Expecting  ***  3. Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5  *****4. What to Expect the First Year  ***5. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding  ***6. What's Goin]]></description><category>expectant</category><category>parents</category></item><item><title>Better than Life by Daniel Pennac</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/better_than_life_by_daniel_pennac.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/better_than_life_by_daniel_pennac.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=better%5Fthan%5Flife%5Fby%5Fdaniel%5Fpennac</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Better than Life is a funny book that is not a novel but can be read as a novel. &quot;Comme un Roman&quot;, its original name, translates &quot;Like a Novel&quot;. Pennac describes the love of reading, from the beginning. His/our love of reading, as]]></description></item><item><title>Daniel Pennac</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/daniel_pennac.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/daniel_pennac.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=daniel%5Fpennac</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My next reading will be Daniel Pennac's &quot;Comme un Roman&quot; / Better than Life, in its English translation. A nice author that I still need to discover, &quot;Comme un Roman&quot; is a book about reading and it was, when published, a huge succ]]></description></item><item><title>The Tramp Steamer&apos;s Last Port of Call (II)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_tramp_steamers_last_port_of_call_1.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_tramp_steamers_last_port_of_call_1.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ftramp%5Fsteamers%5Flast%5Fport%5Fof%5Fcall%5F1</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Cardiff SS Pontwen, a tramp steamer built in 1914. The image belongs to the National Museum of Wales.I have recently read the short story The Tramp Steamer's Last Port of Call, by Alvaro Mutis. As I had expected, it is an outstanding book that I]]></description></item><item><title>Eugénio de Andrade, a tribute</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/eugnio_de_andrade_a_tribute.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/eugnio_de_andrade_a_tribute.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=eugnio%5Fde%5Fandrade%5Fa%5Ftribute</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The poet Eugénio de Andrade died yesterday at the age of 82. What other tribute than to post one poem (in translation from the Portuguese):Silent, Underground RiverSilent, underground river of wordsruns slowly through my whole body:Love without riv]]></description></item><item><title>Famous lovers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/famous_lovers.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/famous_lovers.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=famous%5Flovers</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As quoted by Alvaro Mutis in his The Tramp Steamers's Last Port of Call:Marcel and AlbertinePyramus and ThisbeTristan and IsoldeCan you tell who created them (before following the links)?]]></description></item></channel></rss>